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[drevil]

This is your PSA to always wear your helmet… and not ride on top of logs with wet, slippery bark

https://vimeo.com/265314231
[video=vimeo;265314231]https://vimeo.com/265314231[/video]

[consularrider]

It’s been a Mary Poppins week cycling weather-wise in Frankfurt, practically perfect! Yesterday I had an HDCC morning ride to the Äppel-Bistro at the MainÄppelHaus on the Lohrberg. In the afternoon I did a solo ride up to Bad Nauheim, former “home” of Elvis and George Patton.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]17815[/ATTACH] The view over Frankfurt is obscured by the tree

[ATTACH=CONFIG]17816[/ATTACH] Enjoying a Kaffee und Apfelkuchen, sort of like my mother used to make

[ATTACH=CONFIG]17817[/ATTACH] Pavè between Nieder-Rosbach and Friedberg

[ATTACH=CONFIG]17818[/ATTACH] More pavè between Nieder and Ober-Mörlen

[ATTACH=CONFIG]17819[/ATTACH] When you’re in the Taunus, you have to go uphill on gravel

[consularrider]

Riding on Frankfurt’s GrünGürtel on Monday.

[consularrider]

Back to Bad Nauheim on another practically perfect day to ride.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]17821[/ATTACH] Kurpark, Bad Nauheim

[ATTACH=CONFIG]17822[/ATTACH] Sprudelhof, Bad Nauheim

[ATTACH=CONFIG]17823[/ATTACH] Near Schwalheim

[ATTACH=CONFIG]17824[/ATTACH] Looking towards Friedberg

[ATTACH=CONFIG]17825[/ATTACH] Cherry tree in bloom in the Friedhof, Okarben

[KLizotte]

This month the Library of Congress is featuring photos of old. You can see them by going to https://loc.gov and scrolling to the bottom of the page.

[consularrider]

Day 7 of Practically Perfect cycling weather in Frankfurt and I took advantage of to do the road climb up Großer Feldberg (at 884 meters above sea level, the tallest point in the Taunus). I was really slow averaging about 7 mph over the 8 miles and almost 2100 feet of climbing (my biggest climb on Strava) and got passed by 6 or 7 other riders on the climb. The descent into Schmitten was nail-biting, I don’t rally mind the climbing but steep descents do me in.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]17827[/ATTACH] The target seen from Steinbach

[ATTACH=CONFIG]17828[/ATTACH] Feldberg/Taunus Transmitter

[ATTACH=CONFIG]17829[/ATTACH] View towards Schmitten

[ATTACH=CONFIG]17830[/ATTACH] Looking across Flugplatz Anspach towards Oberhain

[ATTACH=CONFIG]17831[/ATTACH] Almost home, the Frankfurt skyline from Nieder-Eschbach

[consularrider]

I totally forgot about my Garmin Virb camera during this year’s freezing saddles. So, when I was out for my Sunday ride yesterday I took my Pugsley fat bike which has the combo gps/camera mount and rode the trails in the Volkspark Niddatal (Niddapark) and along the Nidda River. This video is half of the park’s perimeter loop.

[consularrider]

Still in Niddapark, the second half of the perimeter loop.

[consularrider]

The third video has some of the parks internal trails and (for Boomer) the art installation on the pillars of the A66 autobahn flyover.

[consularrider]

Leaving Niddapark and heading up the Nidda River using the unpaved side of the river. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1YdQGWfLlYThis is a longer video at real time speed.

[consularrider]

One more from April 22, a loop in Bonames Nordpark including the gravel switchbacks. For the first time I encountered cyclists coming down as I was going up.

[Lt. Dan]

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Sunday got out to Wakefield and enjoyed pretty much perfect conditions. Yesterday was on the road with a couple buddies- I’ve been fighting a wicked cold, so I played “lead-out” on a couple segments to help them get KOM’s… actually kinda fun!!

[drevil]

Three days of mountain biking in the GW National Forest:

https://vimeo.com/266451403

[video=vimeo;266451403]https://vimeo.com/266451403[/video]

[consularrider]

Our string of fine cycling weather continues in Frankfurt. Today I got out for a road ride and stopped for a solo HDCC (yeah, solo means it ain’t a club, I know) at Bäckerei Café Freimund in Ober-Erlenbach.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]17837[/ATTACH] Weingärtenanlage in a light industrial zone of Kalbach

[ATTACH=CONFIG]17838[/ATTACH] Seemed to be Hessen Ride-Your-Bike to School Day. This is the Phillip Reis Schule in Friedrichsdorf. I saw another large number of kids getting ready to ride at the SV Blau-Gelb in Ginnheim early in my ride.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]17840[/ATTACH] View over another rapeseed field, this time towards Großer Feldberg

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[ATTACH=CONFIG]17841[/ATTACH] The Eshersheimer Freibad is set to open for the season

[consularrider]

We drove (gasp) to Munich yesterday to attend Bavarian-American Friendship Day at the Hippodrom Tent on the Theresinweise as part of the Spring Frühlingsfest, think low-key Ockotberfest. We’re staying for the weekend, and I brought a bike! Unfortunately Margaret this is the end of the annual employee evaluation cycle, so she went in to the CG here to push some paperwork. Fine by me, WSGFABR in the beautiful Bavarian Spring weather!

[ATTACH=CONFIG]17842[/ATTACH] Hippodrom Tent last night

[ATTACH=CONFIG]17843[/ATTACH] Theresienweise today

[ATTACH=CONFIG]17844[/ATTACH] Along the Isarradweg

[ATTACH=CONFIG]17845[/ATTACH] Wehranlage Oberföhring in the Isar River

[ATTACH=CONFIG]17846[/ATTACH] Isar River looking upstream towards Munich from the Isarsteg Unterföhring

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