Dear BTG-riders, in our today’s newsletter we want to inform you about the procedures regarding tracking: Since the last edition www.followmychallenge.com from the Netherlands is our tracking partner. They support your SPOT device if you own one and also offer an affordable solution for rental devices. These rental devices do Read more…
Dear BTG participants & followers, here is the fourth newsletter of BTG 2019. It covers some “terms and conditions” of our event to make sure that everybody knows what he gets when registering for the BTG. We will also give you some information about legal considerations of Bikepacking in Germany. Read more…
Dear BTG riders, today we want to give you some information to help you plan and prepare for the BTG 2019. It is a nice tradition that most participants meet and get to know each other in the afternoon before the race. You remember the question in our registration form? Read more…
Dear Prospective riders of BTG 2019! In this second newsletter we want to share a few thoughts on which type of bike is the best for BTG. Looking at the bike setups that you sent in with your registrations and from our experience with previous editions we find that two Read more…
News Dear prospective riders of BTG 2019! Finally here it is: Our first newsletter for BTG 2019. Starting from today we will send out regular newsletters to you providing all the information necessary to line up at the start in Basel on the 07th July and enjoy the ride. First Read more…
It’s 21:58 and time for the daily wrap-up… But so much happened today and I already posted a lot. I will leave it up to Fabian to round up the weekend tomorrow., ok? Except for two things: There is one more finish in the make later today and I can’t Read more…
Dear friends of the BTG: A bit earlier than Fabian used to do in the last days: Here is the daily wrap for day 5 of the BTG: The most popular question of the day is: How much will Christian and Ben cut off the current record? Tedde of Follow Read more…
Our PR-officer Fabian Farbian Baum asked for a leave tonight so I will do my best to take over his job for today. Thank you very much Fabian for the great reports so far and for those to come! Let’s start with a collection of impressions that dropped in via Read more…
CP photos of the day! We did a bit of housekeeping today and found that everybody should be through CP1 except Clas who experienced some mechanical problems on day one and is now back on track. He DQed himself for taking outside assistance but we will look into this later Read more…
A few minutes ago our two last riders finished the race: Jaap Knegt from the Netherlands and Klaus ‘Rheinfall’ Meyer from Germany reached the lighthouse at 3:39pm which makes up for a finish time of 20 days, 7 hours and 39 minutes. Aged 67 and 68 they rode most of Read more…