The organizer – who are as well the organizer of the VAUDE Trans Blackforest – called for the 10th Rothaus RiderMan in Bad Dürrheim with something new:
Rothaus RiderMan Tour 200: (17,1 | 81,5 | 105,2 km) just for MEN
Rothaus RiderMan Tour 100 (17,1 | 49,0 | 57,6 km) just for “GIRLS"
.......many of the “girls” I talked to, would´ve loved to ride the 200km !!!

The tour was a race with 3 stages:
Friday 04.09 Time-Trial over 17km,
Saturday 05.09 stage over 81km and on
Sunday 06.09 a stage over 105km
All days were calculated to one ranking –Tour200- overall

We´ll start on sunday...these thought are the freshes I have...I rode with my best jersey I got on the 105km stage. Everybody said who saw this jersey,this is cool or super- a special honor to the designer of the jersey.the accent is on the outfit…;-)

Back to the race. The choice of the course were very unhappy this year. In the last years, the race took part on completely blocked roads. This year it was on, how you can see on the picture above, on country lanes or better communication roads between country lanes, it is more difficult to ride it than bitumen. And of course our friends of the agriculture got their season every time the race took part. So, all the fields of corn weremowed and plowed. On the race days were the tractors the biggest and the walker the smallest hindrance. Next to horse riders, their were as well cars and lots of plowed earth to pass by. In short, we had lots of fun and it wasn´t boring after all. I often got passed by the motorcycle ambulance, how many times I couldn´t count. But sometimes we were lucky, because there were some clean, wide roads as well.

My Pirate-jersey attracted also some Hamburger guys…cause in the Sunday group there were 3 guys from Hamburg and one from Pinneberg, at this point, special greetings to Rainer B. I hope you gotta be a PIRATE some day! I don´t wanna hurt your eyes anymore with my pictures…but it was real nice weather on Saturday over the 81km. The streets and hindrance were still the same, only just shorter… ;)

Please don´t be sad, because their are no pictures from the time-trial !!! After all: to make of this event a 3-Stage-Race was a good idea. The course would be more for MTB, but just without any forests. More information under www.sauser.de Now my ranking of the race at the first weekend in september : 33. Age-group Master II Büttner Thomas Tuningen Team Pirate Hamburg 6:47.16,18 / 119.overall ....the first had 5:22:41,98, so it was very close to me ! When I wanted to win this race I should participate on AOK-Bikesunday, but first of all I ´ll try the Blackforest-Bike-Marathon in Furtwagen…

See you with my next bulletin and a spezial SALUTE to all of you

Thomas Büttner