BTG2017 Day 20

Day 20’s digest might be the last one with riders still out on the road. This is because Jaap and Klaus put in a big day today and made it to Sievertshagen, less than 20km short of Stralsund and with only 96km to go to the lighthouse at Cape Arkona. Read more…

BTG2017 Day 19

It’s almost three weeks ago since Jaap and Klaus started their journey in Basel. I guess for them it feels like a lifetime ago 🙂 Now they have 194km to go and will finish soon. I guess they will do so on Sunday because they obviously decided to enjoy the Read more…

BTG2017 Day 18

The good thing about trackleaders is that you can see where your riders take their after race beers. Jaap and Rheinfall Klaus are staying near Templin tonight. Klaus and Jaap choose to stay at B&B/hotels every night. Their design for the BTG is at the opposite end of the scale Read more…

BTG2017 Day 17

Headline of day 17 is Tims finish! It takes some determination to sit out severe illness for two days in some eastern German Kaff (disrespectful German word for a small town in the middle of nowhere with almost no infrastructure) and then to get back on the bike and to Read more…

BTG2017 Day 16

The wrap-up for day 16 come a bit earlier today because all riders are rested for the night right now. First of all we had four more finishers today. So we now have 12 finishers 7 scratches and 3 riders still out there. Tour Divide and Grenzsteintrophy veteran Dieter finished Read more…

BTG2017 Day 15

We are getting prouder of our racers with every day. Obviously the weather out there really sucks! But non the less we have three more finishers today: Thoralf at 12:55 pmAlex at 6:58pmWolfgang at 7:17pm 7 are still out there riding and 4 of them could make it to the Read more…

BTG2017 Day 14

At the end of day 14 we are down to 10 riders still working their way towards the finish line. Thomas finished today. He didn’t carry a SPOT but sent messages from every checkpoint. He road this route in a very routined and unspectacular way and has our deep respect Read more…

BTG2017 Day 13

Same time last year the race was over. Achim, Falk, Steffen, Torsten and I shut out the lights of the lighthouse at Cape Arkona late Friday afternoon. Achim and I discussed in the last days what it was that slowed down the race this year in the second week and Read more…

BTG2017 Day 12

Let’s end day 12 with a look at our two oldest riders: Jaap and Klaus reached the top of Fichtelberg today and made some progress towards CP3 afterwards. They stay in Satzung today and will close in on CP3 tomorrow. Unfortunately we have two more scratches: Norbert and Carsten had Read more…

BTG2017 Day 11

Day 11 was a very busy one. Jaume and Giorgio have been in the focus today and it was very exciting! Yesterday Jaume felt that it would be better to carry on in touring mode but today he obviously felt much better and pedaled the remaining 250km to the finish Read more…