Bike Rides

This dude is definitely undeserving of his reputation! Note to self: remember that the camera has no internal battery and you have to set the date and time with every battery change!I took a suggestion from local pal Markus and went out southwest towards Mangolding, Mintraching and Geisling. Those were new towns for me, but the route back along the B8 through Barbing was old hat. Pretty flat the whole way, so it should have been a good opportunity to keep my heart rate low and steady....

I biked up the hill to Pentling (hey! The bridge over the A3 is open again!) and down the hill from there towards Matting where I met up with my pal Sam for lunch. Then we took the ferry across (1€ per person) to the west (north?) bank of the Danube towards Bad Abbach, where we crossed it again using the bridge there. That’s where we parted ways; I headed back downstream (north/east) towards Regensburg....

First time back in the saddle after about a month, and it is no longer Panama Jack helmet weather. Also, when I got started this morning, it was foggy as heck, so I through on an eye-catching vest just for good measure. After about 30 minutes, it wasn’t really necessary anymore – the sun burned off the low-hanging clouds. I stuck to a very familiar route, since I haven’t been on the bike in about a month....

No denying it – autumn is here, at least a day or two early. You can see it in the produce. I had mapped out a nice route of nearly exactly 50 km, heading south on our street to Oberhinkofen, and then turning west towards Teugn to come up into Bad Abbach from the south, but … something was amiss in the state of Denmark, if you know what I mean, and given that it was a Sunday morning before 9:00, and nothing was going to be open, I opted to head into Bad Abbach from the east and headed home from there....

Well, secret to me, anyways. I didn’t know it was there. I woke up just before 6, got my coffee on, and was out on the road at 7:45. I’ve started a couple bikerides this year intending to make it all the way to Kallmünz. Today was another of those that fell short. Not that the ride wasn’t fulfilling. I didn’t know there was a Flugplatz in Oberhub, so I detoured even more up a hill to check it out....