That view... 🤩 ... was super-hard earned, though. Slowly also populating my Silk Road Mountain Race album on flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/huege... #SRMR2025 #SRMR2025cap201 #silkroadmountainrace #bikepacking #ultracycling #weitradeln #Kyrgyzstan #Kirgisistan #photography

Silk Road Mountain Race Recap Day 6: www.instagram.com/p/DPzPnwZjCe... Epic hike-a-bike over 4020m altitude and countless river crossings. #SRMR2025 #SRMR2025cap201 #silkroadmountainrace #bikepacking #ultracycling #weitradeln #Kyrgyzstan #Kirgisistan

Another recommendation for this weekend: UCI Gravel Worlds! In Zuid-Limburg, The Netherlands. ucigravelworldseries.com/en/ And that's actually much nearer to me: only 2 hrs :) #cycling #Gravel #UCIGravelWorlds

www.bespoked.cc Highly recommended if you are somewhere near Dresden. I debated hard with me to visit again, not just because of the bikes but the opportunity to meet people. #cycling #custom #bespoked #Dresden

Silk Road Mountain Race Recap Day 5: www.instagram.com/p/DPmKKyDjLY... #SRMR2025 #SRMR2025cap201 #silkroadmountainrace #bikepacking #ultracycling #weitradeln #Kyrgyzstan #Kirgisistan

So when I wish for aerobars developed with special consideration for ultracycling and bikepacking I should add two points: ... (see either in provided photos, on Mastodon or Threads. Or directly in my Instagram stories)

Aerobars tailor made for Ultracycling - a proposal. Recently learned that Swiss Side offers an Aero Cockpit solution since July. More in the following posts... nah, more only in the added Story-Screenshots themselves and respective ALT texts. See, I cross post some stuff I originally post on

Ponderings for 2026: New super long bikepacking event, Via Race Chapter III registration started, interesting route into and through Norway, longing for a long smooth pure gravel event (do you know such?) Read the slides for details... 😃 #bikepacking #ultracycling #weitradeln

Holy Haringshappen! 37 mm internal width! And 43 mm outer, 52 mm height. It's for beach racing, but... hmmm... Weight not given but said to be lighter than their previous 4-shore which are claimed 435 g stormsports.nl/collections/... #Rim #Wheel #Gravel #Aero #BeachRacing

How to analyze Out- and Back Test Runs for CdA and crr in the Chung Aerolab in Golden Cheetah. youtu.be/8QW3v0vhWqY?... #cda #crr #Chung #GoldenCheetah #ThunderBurt #Dubnital #Rollwiderstand #Reifen #Aero

When ultra distance rider @torstenfrank.bsky.social revealed he was an original VeloViewer tiler, with a rare four digit Strava user number, we were keen to speak to him to find out more about his adventures. Read the latest tiling Q&A in our our blog bit.ly/4o1Y6gS #tilehunting

Veloviewer did a nice interview with me on the topic of tile collecting or tile hunting. blog.veloviewer.com/the-view-fro... #cycling #radfahren #exploremore #tiles #kacheln #tilecollecting #veloviewer #strava #maps

Visited the Maxxis Gravel Ground Bike-Festival at the Zeche Ewald a second time today. This time by bike from my doorstep mostly via nice gravel and cycling routes.

Silk Road Mountain Race recap Day 4 out now. :) --> www.instagram.com/p/DPCU1M9jIb... #SRMR2025 #SRMR2025cap201 #silkroadmountainrace #bikepacking #ultracycling #weitradeln #Kyrgyzstan #Kirgisistan #Tar

Trek unveiled their new CheckOUT today. The bike we saw as a prototype under Justinas at the Transbalkan Race this June. A full suspension gravel bike with 60 mm travel front and 55 mm in the rear. #cycling #bike #gravelbike #gravel but also #Supergravel?

Artikel-Update vom 17.9. mit Neuem von Nextie, Reynolds und Scope: --> Breite Aero-Laufradsätze und Felgen für Gravel, Allroad und Rennrad torstenfrank.wordpress.com/2025/03/17/b... #radfahren #cycling #Gravel #Allroad #Rennrad

Wild mix yesterday. Explored Squadratinhos around Erndtebrück which resulted in quite a bit bushwhacking. Tried my new iPhone 17 Pro camera out and compared it to my 15 Pro and my Olympus OMD E-M5. And did some Tempo and Threshold work on the bike in-between.

Silk Road Mountain Race recap Day 3 www.instagram.com/p/DOq5nnQjI0... #SRMR2025 #SRMR2025cap201 #silkroadmountainrace #bikepacking #ultracycling #weitradeln #Kyrgyzstan #Kirgisistan #Gulcha #PamirHighway

Wrote about tile collecting a bit already last week. ... Tile collecting is a fun (in a nerdy, map lovers way) meta game motivation to explore more.

 www.instagram.com/p/DOoa1NdDCv... #cycling #exploremore #explorertiles #tilehunting #Veloviewer #squadrats

DT Swiss Budget MTB Wheelsets:

Tadaaa - iPhone 17 Pro ordered :)

Silk Road Mountain Race Recap Stint 2: www.instagram.com/p/DObx3F6DAz... #Bikepacking #Silkroadmountainrace #SRMR2025

Uh oh - just signed up for my very first actual gravel race! Flanders Legacy Gravel on the 19th of October. It's even a qualifier already for the 2026 UCI Gravel World Championships... 🫣😎 #cycling #Gravel #Flanders #radfahren

On another note: Felt suspiciously amazing for a first ride after Kyrgyzstan today! Apparently l slacked so hard there that it was indeed a pure high altitude camp? 🙈😎😅 #silkroadmountainrace #SRMR2025 #cycling #backhome

Skinny Tires Re-Calibration Ride... 😅 Lest I forget how awful rigid bikes and <50 mm tires are off-road. And to keep the confident feel of my #Supergravel by staying acquainted to 38 mm Slicks on Gravel. That said, my @conti_bicycle GP5000 AS TR are serious (Gucci) Gravel Tires! #cycling #Gravel

#Bikepacking Event Tip for next Summer, No 2: Via Race, Chapter III Depends where it will lead us next year. I heard it may be Scandinavia... That would be interesting. via-race.com #ultracycling #weitradeln

#Bikepacking Event Tip for next Summer, No 1: La Peripherie Tempted myself. laperipherie.com #weitradeln #cycling

Selling Fizik Terra Atlas MTB shoes, size 42, ridden once. Not really my perfect size/shape of last (although trying them on inside suggested so...) Either via the linked Kleinanzeigen.de entry or via DM. www.kleinanzeigen.de/s-anzeige/ve... #Schuhe #cycling #shoe #mtb #gravel #radfahren

Can you do a more typical „bikepacking bike in Kyrgyztan“ photo than one leaning against a Yurt? #BAAY (Bike against a Yurt) instead of #BAAW 😅😀 (+ a few more words on my Instagram) #BAAW #BAAY (Bike against a Yurt) #Yurt #SRMR2025 #SRMR2025cap201 #silkroadmountainrace #bikepacking

To tent or not to tent (at the Silk Road Mountain Race) - that is the question. A few ponderings alongside some photos of my really lovely camp in Kyrgyzstan: www.instagram.com/p/DOEJqnQjEvf/ #SRMR2025 #SRMR2025cap201 #silkroadmountainrace #bikepacking #Kyrgyzstan #sleepkit #tent #bivy

Silk Road Mountain Race. Wow - what an adventure! When I applied for the race I wasn’t really sure whatfor. There was no really strong „why“. Wrote this and quite a bit more... www.instagram.com/reel/DN-nnsW... #SRMR2025 #silkroadmountainrace #bikepacking #Kyrgyzstan #Kirgisistan

Can't recommend. Tested on the Silk Road Mountain Race. So a few weeks back I wrote that I'll try this trutension_cycle Banana Slip Drip Lube. Reason: it tests similar to the proven @silca_velo Synergetic, is also kind of a drip wax like... #lubrification #drivetrain #chainlube

Rigs of the 2025 Silk Road Mountain Race (Part One): bikepacking.com/bikes/2025-s... #SRMR2025 #Bikepacking #cycling #adventurecycling

Starting the Silk Road Mountain Race tomorrow. A few words on Instagram: www.instagram.com/p/DNVh_SmM2ZK/ #SRMR2025 #SRMR2025cap201 #bikepacking #ultracycling #weitradeln #Kyrgyzstan #cycling

Who will make the ferry? And which? #TCRNo11 #bikepacking #ultracycling

Love me some good dot watching. And the Transcontinental provides! Look at that massively spread out field across Europe! In the front it's also very interesting. With the [...] reporting on the TCR website itself but also enjoying the insights of dotwatcher.cc. ... #bikepacking #ultracycling

Heute aktualisiert: Breite Aero-Laufradsätze und Felgen für Gravel, Allroad und Rennrad torstenfrank.wordpress.com/2025/03/17/b... #radfahren #cycling #aeroiseverything

Neuer Blog-Artikel: "Ultracycling-Belastungssymptome und wie man sie vermeidet – Bestandsaufnahme nach dem Hellenic Mountain Race" torstenfrank.wordpress.com/2025/07/08/u... #radfahren #weitradeln #cycling #ultracycling #bikepacking #Vorbereitung

Nice - Apidura officially released their Aero System. A set of a top tube bag and small wedge type frame bag aimed towards fast day rides like e.g. gravel races. Making your bike on average 5 watts faster than w/o these bags :) www.apidura.com/aero-system/ #Gravel #racing #bikepacking

First impressions on the Koga Denham Bar: www.instagram.com/p/DLNmbDAsjl... Mission: Finding a long ride / touring / bikepacking suitable flatbar configuration for me, version 10 or so. #enduranceriding #cycling #flatbar #mtbcockpits #KogaDenhamBar #Denhambar #Altbar #InnerBarEnds

It’s now exactly 3 weeks since the Hellenic Mountain Race endet... www.instagram.com/p/DLLF_XXM00... #bikepacking #Ultracycling #HMR2025

Wonder how... I rate Hellenic Mountain Race, Alps Divide Ultra Challenge & El Piri in terms of technicality, overall route difficulty etc.? Which of those I would love to do again sometime? How much hiking each demanded of me? And also how you could quantify this for yourself?

Neu auf meinem Blog: "Hellenic Mountain Race 2025 in Zahlen und verglichen mit Alps Divide und El Piri – OMG, so viel Schieben…" Gibt es in Deutsch und Englisch (beide Versionen verlinken sich gegenseitig). torstenfrank.wordpress.com/2025/06/18/h... #bikepacking #ultracycling #HMR2025

I bet the surface treatment to make that purple Sram force chain purple will be crap for actual longevity (+ maybe efficiency) for wax based lubricants (hot and drip). I think I read somewhere that's the case for the existing rainbow effect Prolly @ ZeroFrictionCycling? #Sram #Force #chain #cycling

Dropbars are great, for many reasons. But I don't give up on my quest for a good flatbar / alt bar configuration! Enter: the Koga Denham Bar. I'll mount it on my full sus and report what I find. :) #mtb #flatbar #altbar

Immersive Waxing... wrote about it why it's so-so for ultracycling and actually confirmed it sort of because the wax only lasted to the first thunderstorm and not even the first 12 hours of the race... Oh well - it got waxed again as I'm now at home again and for daily riding it's fine. 😅

In our recent meta-analysis with trained athletes, did the athletes who improved their VO2max more also improve their endurance performance more?🤔 No! 😮 In this dataset, +1% improvement in VO2max was associated with a negligible +0.04% change in TT performance. But why? 1/15🧵

"Where to start? Maybe here on 1741 meters above sea level on the top of a steep unpaved road leading over a saddle east of mount Kaliakouda..." #bikepacking #HMR2025 #ultracycling www.instagram.com/p/DKehg76oVM...