Heading east

The next step will be reaching the Danube around the area of Sigmaringen and then follow it all the way to Rumania and Bulgaria before turning off south east to head towards Istanbul where we plan to cross the Bosporus leaving a geographically define Europe behind.

Roughly estimated distance down to Istanbul: 2748 km according to google maps, will probably end up being more than 3000 km

Stuttgart to Istanbul estimated route

lets see how it goes

The Route from Münster to Stuttgart

Trip from Münster to Koblenz from Thursday 16^th of August to Wednesday 22^nd of August

with 1 day break in Cologne where we visited Rapido workshop and did a special guided night ride around the city

Münster to Koblenz

Field trip to Hohensonne, Luxembourg, Tier and the Mosel Valey by car:

Fieldtrip by car

Trip from Koblenz to Stuttgart along the Rhine and then along the Neckar, started on Saturday 25^th of August at around 8pm, arrived in Stuttgart on Tuesday 28^th of August at midnight

Koblenz to Stuttgart



Adding up all the legs of our journey we get to 1313km cycled so far which does not include unintended detours and extra kilometers done that googlemaps cannot calculate due to inaccuracies

some random stuff:

Kilometer average 47km a day including break days

Kilometer average of 69km a day cycling days only

However some days we manage to do more than 100 a day

until now, no money spent for accomodation, sleeping in a tent or just in our sleeping bags in parks, vineyards, forests and river banks works perfectly fine

People are mostly  very helpful indicating us the way and possible camping hide outs, providing us with tap water and nibbles as well as at times ice cream, pizza, dinner and breakfast

These encounters enlighten our voyage and make sure that we never get into a monotonous routine.

Our way until now

Our route so far:

On the continent 6th of August to 10th of August

Route from Ijmeden to Muenster

Route in Scotland: 29th of July to 5th of August, on 1st of August day break in Edinburgh and on 5th of August day break in Tynemouth, waiting for the Ferry

Route from Aberdeen to Tynemouth

Now we will have a few days break in Muenster, next stop will be Stuttgart.

Bike Workshops in Europe and beyond

Check this map for Bike Workshops in Europe and beyond. 


Becycle, the workshop and cycle community of Aberdeen is in a way sponsoring our trip as the three bikes we are taking have come to the workshop as a donation and have been repaired and made ready to go with the help of the workshop's facilities and more importantly with reliance on the knowledge of the community's many very active members.
Here credit also has to go to the dedicated members of the Edinburgh Bike Station, whose knowledge has helped us a great deal when having called in to repair the bikes of co-traveler Marco.


We are hoping to pass by a few more bike workshops of a similar kind throughout our travel, hopefully not only in order to maintain our bikes, but also with the intention to establish more personal and direct relations between the different projects with a view on exchanging ideas and knowledge on the concepts and the functioning of the workshops in a variety of distinctly local circumstances and situations. 


Moreover it is our plan to take some video footage to be able to make a short documentary upon completion of the travel in order to evidence some of our encounters and to provide an insight into the world of these open source inspired bicycle projects.

Second Planning Meeting

More than a month after the first meeting we now managed to buy some essential equipment for the tour.
Now the only thing still somehow missing are two more functional bikes, so that we can actually start cycling xD.


Nevertheless we have fixed the date of departure to the 1st of August 2012. Lets hope we can get the bikes ready to go in time.

First Planning Meeting

This first get together was mainly to talk about things and align our ideas.


Finally we did come up with a preliminary route which we intend to follow more or less closely.