What preceded...

In August 2002 we were infected with a serious form of biking virus :-). This happened after we climbed our first "grand col", the Tourmalet in the French Pyrenees (2114 m high, avg. 8%). Since then many more famous climbs from the Tour de France have followed: Puy de Dome, Mont Ventoux, Col du Telegraphe, Col du Galibier, Alpe d'Huez, Deux Alpes, Col du Glandon, etc...
We did those climbs and other biking trips using single bikes. This caused some frustration in a sense, since - although we were on holiday together - Maggie (also read: Wei-Wen) and I were separated most of the time...


Consequently, two years ago, we decided to buy a tandem bike - the Koga-Myata TwinTraveller. The bike shop owner warned us that - as a married couple buying a tandem - there are only two possibilities: or you divorce after two weeks or your relationship will get even better... Since then we biked more than 4,000 km on our tandem and we are still happily together :-)

Looking for a challenge to celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary (July 3, 2005) we decided to plan for a tandem bike trip to Santiago de Compostella (northwestern Spain). We were not that much afraid of the distance but rather we wondered whether we would be able to cross the Pyrenees (the mountain range between France and Spain). Therefore we did a final test last summer in St. Moritz (Switzerland) where we took our tandem to try it out on several climbs:

Soon to come...

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In order to celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary we will bike this summer (from August 22 till September 15) on our tandem along the Via Turonensis, which is the Latin name for the 1600km long medieval pilgrim route from Tours in France to Santiago de Compostella in Spain.