good-bye

 

preps

What to do folks? What to do? Like most of you are aware of, thus sorry here to mention, is of globetrotters do wish "safe trip". And safe means to be safe. That means to repair my old mountainbike I bought in the year of 2018 for 399 EUR. Oldie, but Goody. Here, the Mom of Vice-Champion in military golf repaired the back-wheel. Two spokes had been out of order. For 12 EUR. Can you imagine? Brought the bike before noon, and picked it up - one beer after - in the afternoon the same day. Unbeliveable! (Normally you need to make a date in Germany for such a service 4-6 weeks in advance. And have a guess of prices...). So let`s play golf in Israel? Please no. 

Thus, well, all looks functionally and safe. I need to be safe, at least on two tyres. But what about superstition and aims? Israel is far and I might be lonely. So it was decided to mount that fox onto the bicycles cockpit. It is a present for the Israeli. Presently we have wind for the West. That is good. The fox might like it. For sure I do not know if trip to Israel is possible. But I believe in that fox does bring luck.

 

 

 

A mere picture tells more then 1000 words. 

 

bike-packing mega-trend

Folks, 

like biking is not biking anymore, it is e-biking and biking shifted to bio-biking, bike-packing is not bike-packing anymore, but a catwalk, too. At least in Germany. Likewise fishing, triathlon, hunting, hiking and rock climbing are, meanwhile and for sure. While Kurt Albert, whom I did know personally as a Franconian ("Fight Gravity"), from outdoors at via ferrata, here, just around the corner, well, and who did climb in mere jeans he cutted by himself, to go climb barefeet or with flip-flop, now, meanwhile you need a new trousers from Marmot and shoes the Mercedes-Benz class likewise 5.10? Since 2005 at the latest, boom after. Time-trial (TT) bike from Canyon 2015 at the latest, boom after, in affairs of triathlon. And the new TT? Time of Xentis Mark 1 aerowheels are past, good-bye to Focus Walser and Zipp 808, too, but welcome design made for style-police, only! Like a Specialized e-bike 2025, e-bike boom after. And thus that is my still my nick-name, among bikers the ultra way, Flipsy, hooked to the flip-flop, but to speak out freely, I did wear before bike-packing became mega-trend? I did and well, I am like Jenny, still Michi from the block. They produced a comic in China out if it. You bet? And I have a contact in the Pentagon. Thus, I was allowed to tell Donald Trump a few kind words about the us-army? Just Joking? Just joking.

But still: pathways are full of e-bikers (catwalkers) and those folks called bikepackers, here  the attribute awesome turned to awkward. But you can combine that, than you have ebike-bikepackers or just a new generation of ultra-posers. The jobless e-biker imitates Tour De France cyclists, moreover. You need to look into their faces, focused, hard like robots. It would be funny, yes, but it is sad. Because of. Tricking, cheating, faking or like triathletes say: darfting. Or like some other say, e.g. spectators watching those bike-packers from an outdoor bar e.g., it is a freak-show, however, yes, but they are everywhere, at least in Germany. What a shame. what a pity? Yes, if you do compare. But don't. 

 

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To be honest, in Germany only? No, not so. Thus, where to go travel? America? Hysterical. Russia? Dangerous. Europe? Crowded. Especially Scotland. Even in May and June. 

So I altered my plan to cycle to John o 'Groats. 

To the Northern Cape? 

All full of this very special people who discovered bike-packing. Its like a huge crowd that arrived at a sandy Ocean's beach and tell all end everyone the locals of how it is, go surfing, no idea of gravity, the stars and the waves, but showing off. So Norway is full, Sweden, too. Few areas not so, only, What about New Zealand? Well, the people there go to Australia and New Zealand became a country for the rich olders to go caravaning and e-biking. Just full, crowded and for those who to show off. Like those posers cycling to the Northern Cape in their mid-time of their lifes. New Zealand is rich pensionists' country, who do believe it is spring again. Really, I can tell you: terrible. And they are everywhere. Likewise Scotland is full of those trendy tourists to say so, who cannot afford New Zealand to go to. No option to go cycle, too. Even Ushuaia (Argentine) is full of. By those who are younger, students e.g., and want to be someone special.

What to do?

This is something very cute and jetty. Jetty? It isn't from the word jetset, sure, but let 'em. Believe. To be a part of that scenery. Nor it are endurance athletes. But let 'em. Believe. To be part of.  Like those who buy bike up for 16 T+  Eur/ $. To be par of. Competition. Races, they never mastered. See? Now, they all do, you agree? But with money. 

So what to do? 

Leave people as they are, leave people alone. Rather new insight, ah?

 

 

 

Well, as of those vids link on here (dreamstate logic) my dreamstate of the my childhood's days was Florida, USA. I was. Then. Business education after. In 1996, when the Olympic Games had been in Atlanta. May be I go there again, but the West Coast. Somewhen in Europian winter. But now what to do? Good question. Hysteria from America came to Europe this year. That "trend" needed only few years to come here, while in former times it need years like 20 (+/-). May be it has to do with the world wide web. Likewise triathlon became a sport for those who are addicted to dollars to and to show off. There is nothing left of the original functions like climate-neutrality, dropping out, but self-optimizing and spending huge amounts of money likewise it is to do so among bike-packers. When I started, from Nuremberg to Barcelona, I did with a Kettler aluminium bike my Dad bought in the year of 1986 worthy 20 dollars like that. But it made its way 2000k across the Pyrenaes even, too. Nowadays, the owner of the bike-store I bought bikes for I was as a boy, 14 years of age, that was when the Olympic Games had been in Seoul, 1988, said: "Michael, you do not need to enter my shop with less than 3500 EUR." 

 

To hell with it! Money.

 

All in all bicycle-sellers told me to throw my gravel-bike six yrs old. Its in military, hunting green camouflage, the colour of the year of 2020. So well, to repair that my bike in an official store is more expensive than to buy a new one. True. But: how sick! In terms of CO2-budget and Europian Frame Law valid since 01. January 2021 with sustainabillty as its domain header: every thing has to be repaired and new things are needed to be constructed that way to be able to be repaired. And now think of new racing bikes for 6-8 T Eur up to 13-16 Eur. How sick! You need biometrics, first, bike-fitting, second, and special tools for. third. You even cannot change a tyre. Likewise a whole tree of lights is blinking in your new car in case of an error as of all that eletric devices like Di2, eTap, Navi, Komoote, Strava, insta-cam and selfie-stick, especially sick. Those users just show off and most of them never competed in a race. It is like the algorithm of being a part of is blinking in their heads, too, and that is the why of some of us call it the freak-show. It are the new "biobikes" for those mere hobby cyclists, who are, cyclists, just in training, but never, I do repeat, competed in a race and therefore exactly are in the need to draw contrast to the 5-7 T Eur e-bikers' bikes to do compete with. Rather funny? Not so. Cycling became dangerous. Almost any occasion out there in the normal area of traffic became a racing-course, and a contest. Who is faster? And does look cuter? How sick! How sick! A mere catwalk, public traffic space and cycling-pathes, but hooked to self-optimation and concurrence, business and, rather funny, but true, who is first. And believe me one thing: if some believes to be first he has to be first no need to be reasonable by the violation of the rules of traffic. Because those are needed to be first. Reality, in the year of 2026. The hysteria arrived in pulic space and affected drivers, pedestrians and cyclists. Be aware in the supermarket, too, they all need to be first no matter where to in any the supermarket? Don't stand in the way, like twin towers in NYC.

 

See? Not funny. 

 

 

 

Having tightened up all ends, well, I repaired my 899 bucks (new; store: Berlin, Germany) six yrs old gravel-bike, invested 250 Eur for and decided to ride to Greece. Unfortunatelly we have still minus in terms of degrees of celsius, not so economy, sure, and triathlon-career or trend-setting after, well, no one of us is in a hurry. 

 

So which are the countries to go and how, what is the new trend? There is a new trend, sure, in being authentically. 

 

 

 

 

Well, we will see where it goes. Presently we do not share new trends. So do I either.

 

 

personal annotation:

the fox shown in the post before is hooked to the Ministary of Foreign Affairs, Berlin, Germany? I got for special merits likewise: never surrender! As an admin e.g.. Or as a diplomate in Russia or the Philippines, or in Sweden, Finland, the Nato and America? Likewise Faris had been fed up of all that people around! And became a champion. Thus, me too. The autograph contains a typically saying he is famous for. And thus, yes, the lyrics about the fish and the fox is not written on its backside. It are my words. A so-called three-liner (Limerick).