Hoi,
I would hereby humbly ask you all if it's OK if I write you in English.
I live in Antwerp, Belgium so my mother tongue is Dutch. That means it's not too hard for me to understand German (although it's a slow process) but speaking -or let alone writing- in German.... would probably not result in a smooth communication.
Feel free to let me know if that's acceptible to you, I could understand some people have a bit of a problem with English on this forum.
My bike-habitat: 130 km south of my place are the Ardennes; low mountains up to 720 m of altitude-it's rather a plateau with carved-in valleys. Typically muddy with sticky mud in the western part (Namur) and rather peaty mud in the eastern part (Liege oder Lüttich). It borders the Eifel, but I feel it's little bit rougher though.
I went biking to the Pyrrenies (only the French, western side),Scottish Highlands, Moab, Jasper (BC), Pakistan,...but these were all one-timers. I spend some time in the Alpes (TMB clockwise and anti-clockwise) and that's the main reason I enlisted on this forum: next summer I want to do some more "Alpenüberquerungen". So I'm mainly after Alp-Xing experience.
I can offer info about the Ardennes, probably most intresting for people living around Aachen to Trier.
My bike: for XC I ride an 2002 Koga-Myata X-control(=Lapierre) but recently I got myself a Cube Fritzz (model 20006). No one can explain this difference by words, I felt it after 0, 3 seconds! And that's not just flattery talk about a German-built bike!
See/read/hear you!!
I would hereby humbly ask you all if it's OK if I write you in English.
I live in Antwerp, Belgium so my mother tongue is Dutch. That means it's not too hard for me to understand German (although it's a slow process) but speaking -or let alone writing- in German.... would probably not result in a smooth communication.
Feel free to let me know if that's acceptible to you, I could understand some people have a bit of a problem with English on this forum.
My bike-habitat: 130 km south of my place are the Ardennes; low mountains up to 720 m of altitude-it's rather a plateau with carved-in valleys. Typically muddy with sticky mud in the western part (Namur) and rather peaty mud in the eastern part (Liege oder Lüttich). It borders the Eifel, but I feel it's little bit rougher though.
I went biking to the Pyrrenies (only the French, western side),Scottish Highlands, Moab, Jasper (BC), Pakistan,...but these were all one-timers. I spend some time in the Alpes (TMB clockwise and anti-clockwise) and that's the main reason I enlisted on this forum: next summer I want to do some more "Alpenüberquerungen". So I'm mainly after Alp-Xing experience.
I can offer info about the Ardennes, probably most intresting for people living around Aachen to Trier.
My bike: for XC I ride an 2002 Koga-Myata X-control(=Lapierre) but recently I got myself a Cube Fritzz (model 20006). No one can explain this difference by words, I felt it after 0, 3 seconds! And that's not just flattery talk about a German-built bike!
See/read/hear you!!
