New day, new luck. Or: Hope is the last to die. What in some German TV-shows leads to the obligation to pay some money in a piggy bank, stands for optimism at Team Stradalli – BIKE AID these days.
Andalucia could be really nice! A beautiful landscape with small villages, that are shining bright with its white houses like snowcovered pieces of earth
If you check the startlist of Vuelta Andalucia, it could quickly arise the question what a small team from the Saarland has to do in a race with lots of teams out of the 1st league of the world of cycling
At yesterday’s performance diagnostics, couple of our riders had to experience how painful 15 seconds could really be. At the STAPS – institute in Cologne, especially our riders form Africa were excited and curious what will happen to them.
They come from a country wit a population of 4 Million people that is locted at the so-called “horn of Africa”. The countries in the neighbourhood are Ethiopia, Dschibuti and Sudan
Fotoshooting. For most of the riders it sounds like something really bad, as in the vast majority of cases it means standing around for hours, being pushed by the photographer, short: more torture and pain than joy.
Jean Bosco Nsengimana, winner of the Tour du Rwanda 2015 and Janvier Hadi - already nominated for the 2016 Olympic Games and winner of All African Games - completing the six African riders in STRADALLI – BIKE AID professional cycling team.
What didn’t we all read about Mekseb in the past 12 months: Overall winner of stage races, winner oft he UCI Africa Tour 2014, Africa’s Cyclist oft he year 2014 and yes, also man oft he race at the Bayern – Rundfahrt 2015, he was voted for.
What didn't we all see yet on all our travels. Sandpists in Africa, races in the desert Sahara, Belgian cobblestones and wide Chinese roads. But nobody will forget anymore what we experienced yesterday. And we did not even had to travel that far!
