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Nice post! Thanks for sharing info about this even...

2011-11-21T15:14:09.310+01:00

Nice post! Thanks for sharing info about this event.

flickr user tetedelacourse has a good set of Criti...

2011-11-21T13:30:48.072+01:00

flickr user tetedelacourse has a good set of Critical Dirt photos . . .

Hi Leslie, thanks for that, and thanks to G, above...

2011-11-21T13:22:51.734+01:00

Hi Leslie, thanks for that, and thanks to G, above, for initiating it: i'd love to try it! when are you thinking of doing it?

There's another, similar ride that follows the Berlin Wall, if i remember rightly, but tends to be much 'harder core', in that you have to sleep outside and fend for yourself. http://www.grenzsteintrophy.de/
check it out! could become a big event.

I have actually gone to GPSies.com and put the fou...

2011-11-20T23:22:37.916+01:00

I have actually gone to GPSies.com and put the four stages from this year's ride onto my Notepad there. I am seriously considering riding the route, which looks a lot hillier than the 2010 one, either alone or with a few friends. Of course, doing it with a group (and the really amazing food!) would be much better! It does not look as insanely hard as my l'Eroica experience in October.

Hi guys, thanks for the kind words. I'm one o...

2011-11-20T23:18:05.266+01:00

Hi guys,

thanks for the kind words. I'm one of the people who put this up.

We are a core team of six people, with lots of helpers and friends, so it was quite an effort to make this happen this year. It depends on the way you count it, this year's route took us 9 months (several weekends and map-time during those) to develop, last year's route has been developing in my mind for two years.

We are just a bunch of friends who like to put up stuff like this and have a good time with all the nice people rolling with us. One of our guidelines is to never do the same thing twice. Our personal situations (jobs and that) have changed so at this point, we really don't know what's gonna happen in the future. But we don't have to. For now, we are very happy with how it all turned out.

Hey, best regards and thanks,

G.

It seems to be. The article in TOUR suggested tha...

2011-11-20T22:44:35.346+01:00

It seems to be. The article in TOUR suggested that the 500 km, 4 stage route that was used this year took two years to develop.

Sounds very interesting. Is this an annual event?

2011-11-20T22:12:15.397+01:00

Sounds very interesting. Is this an annual event?