Moin

This is where I try to keep track of different things I do in preparation for my next bicycle tours. Which is mostly training and learning Danish. Sometimes planning and buying or sewing new gear.

You can read about my last tours here: 2019, 2020summer, 2022autumn , 2022, 2023, 2024

When I got back from my last tour, I weighed all my bags and panniers, so you could know how much weight I was pedaling around.

I have 2 panniers on the back wheel, which weighed in at 6.7 and 7.2 kg. The bag on top with one of my locks weighed 5.7kg, which means a total of 19.6kg fully on the back wheel.

At the front I had 2 smaller panniers with 4.6 and 5 kg and the handle bar bag with 3 kg, so in total 12.6 kg only on the front wheel.

I also wear my hip bag and my second lock around my hips, which weighed in at 4.8kg. So with me and that frame bag and my clothes thats adds up to around 70kg in the middle.

Charlotte also weighs something, let us estimate about 15 kg, so that makes a total weight of 115kg that I was pedaling around.

The next weeks I will share what I had in my panniers, what I used, what not, what I will replace or add for the next tour, and what I will leave home next time. Do you have special requests, interests, wishes, what you would like to know about me or my gear? Please do not hesitate to ask! I will include it in my posts.

Weekly preparations:

I studied no Danish,

did yoga 1 time,

1 strength workouts,

cycled 1 time on my bicycle-home-trainer 10km in about 40 mins

cycled with Leif  20.4km in 1:22:03h

and with Charlotte 0 km in 0 h. (She still has that flat tire)

keep exploring and smiling

your Fairy