By Artur Ciesielski | Phoenix , Review
For the mountain biking trip to Moab, I decided to try doing some videos with an action cam. What’s kept me from recording before is the shaky quality of most videos I see. Then I saw this wearable gimbal in a few places online; the results look really good; then I got the equipment. Not […]
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Here are the relations from the two weeks of my trip to Peru, beginning with a few days in Lima then into the more formal, or not – let’s hope not, mountain biking tour. It’s ongoing until it ends, so it’s all a rough draft until it ends, unless I don’t update this part when it […]
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On a whim I decided to go to Peru for a mountain biking trip with Sacred Rides instead of where I intended to go. I’ve been wanting to do the Peru trip for a while, but it did not feel right before. I’ll be arriving a few days early to check out the city: Lima. […]
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Heritage Square in downtown Phoenix is a unique space, a collection of old homes and houses from the late 18th and early 19th century. Amongst the many structures there is a small building, the carriage house, “…was built in 1899 as the mule barn for the Bouvier-Teeter House. It is typical of the traditional carriage […]
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Day two of racking up the miles, but day three since it started. Of course Christmas Day was busy. Upon leaving I just decided on a whim to follow the Sonoran Bikeway south, then I decided just to go all the way to South Mountain where it ends, so I did. Down 3rd Avenue to […]
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Christmas eve: it’s busy day and I woke up in a grumpy mood. Then a guest from the vacation rental called that her tub and toilet were no draining, so I had to wait for the plumber, yet I got about an hours ride in today. One of the hard things is deciding where to […]
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Just a few more photos from the mountain biking trip in Switzerland and Italy. These were taken by our guide Sil.
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The previous day, our day ended at a spa. We still had to drive up the Stelvio to get to our hotel in Little Tibet. It was dark and the road was covered by a thick cloud. The drive was slow and long. The hotel is on top of the Passe Del Stelvio. It is […]
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An easy day today: lots of downhill singletrack riding and very little climbing. We had a shuttle take up up several times to a high point from which we rode down in to several different towns. Each ride up was about 2,000 meters. It was warm below and cold at the top. The first photo […]
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This was a hard day or riding. 2,800 feet of assent in a very short time. Livignio is a small town in the Italian Alps. The only access is via car and bus, no trains here, yet it has a special tax status and a shopping street to go with it, with hundreds of products […]
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Day one: pick up and a 2 hour drive to a hotel near Davos, Switzerland. Getting the bikes ready for the ride after some lunch of Goulash size Gross = large. A view from one of the trails. Lots of good views, but I did not get too many chances to take photos. Taking the […]
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It’s about 6pm. I’ve had 5 beers and 3 bottles of water, that is 4 liters of liquid, not one pee. It all evaporated or soaked into t0 my clothes. I left the house at 9:45, got to the starting point 10 kilometers later and set off at 10:30. Now some 100 kilometers later I’m […]
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