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5 bracket HDR, using Photomax ProTone Mapping.
Taken with a Sony A700, & Carl Zeiss Vario Sonnar 16-80mm f/3.5-4.5 Zoom Lens (SAL-1680z)
Follow me into the weekend! :)
And follow me into the last 3 weeks to the inaugural Trans Pyrenees Race.
I’m so looking forward to this! Doing what I love, sitting on my bike and pedal through fascinating regions and landscapes. Not just around some holiday stay and doing circles but really traveling through it, immersing myself into it by carrying all my stuff with me. But in a minimalistic kind of way. So that my bike is still my bike - and not my kitchen sink. And by racing it. In a sort of ambitious, driven by a racing purpose way. But all the while with the aim of enjoying myself and enjoying the journey. As a race-journey it so beautifully was coined a few years ago in a short film about the TCR.
And indeed it was and is the Transcontinental Race which motivated me and which told me the way of unsupported bikepacking as I jumped headlong into this new love of mine with the #TCRNo5 as my first ultracycling and bikepacking event.
Today I have 2 Transcontinental Races and 2 Three Peaks Bike Races under my belt. And while I always wanted to visit the Pyrenees it was just this year while racing from Vienna to Barcelona where I hat the opportunity for this. I think it was quite a fitting preparation - both training wise but also having had a first glimpse into the remote and at times harsh beauty of the Pyrenees.
You see me on gravel here on this photo. There are some nice gravel parcours on the #TPRNo1 also. And, since we will have October by then and it already had snowed as low as 2.000 metres above sea level in the last days in some areas I should be prepared to make progress even when the track get’s rough and possibly even snowed upon. Even paved passes could get interesting in such conditions, to say the least. So while I think gravel tires will be too much of a disadvantage over all the tarmac this race will feature (not even just because of the rolling resistance but also because of less grip on wet tarmac) I’m leaning to forgo absolute minimal rolling resistance and aerodynamics for a greater contact patch. So I think I will switch my road wheelset from the 28 and 32 mm Conti GP 5000 in favor for some 35 mm Panaracer Gravelking Slicks.
Kit wise I think I will pretty much take the exact stuff I laid out in one of my latest blog posts. I have a nice insulation layer which proved useful already in summer alpine racing. I think I will just ride a bigger proportion of the ride with it. I want to expand my rain gear with some solid upper body shell. More substantial than a mere shakedry jacket, i.e. also with a hood for a start. And I plan on riding my first bikepacking race with MTB shoes. Figuring that in the worst case I could end up hiking quite a few kms if the weather doesn’t play along. And I don’t want to do this in the autumn and possibly in the wet or even snow with my trade mark Kung Fu slippers. Well, we’ll see. :)
I’m super excited to see and meet all the other participants in Biarritz. And I would be happy if you would follow me again along the race. Of course there will also be a tracking service provided so that there is ample opportunity for dot watching all us riders traversing the Pyrenees from Biarritz on the west to the Cap de Creus at the Mediterranean Sea on the east and then back again over the most part of the Raid Pyrénéen Randonneur route. So stay tuned! :)
On the summit of the Bjelašnica! The reward of a 12 km gravel ascend. Half ridden, half pushed. But the real reward was the climb itself. Having absolutely no preconceived opinion on that CP and Parcours nor any sort anticipation I was pleasantly surprised. I liked it very much actually. Not necessarily by the summit itself and the decaying lift building witness to a history of both Olympic spirit and peace as well as the dark sides of mankind and war. But more from the peaceful ridgelines of the Dinarian Mountains and the winding gravel trail itself.
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Auf dem Gipfel des Bjelašnica! Die Belohnung für einen 12 km Schotteranstieg. Halb gefahren, halb geschoben. Aber die wahre Belohnung war der Anstieg selbst. Ich hatte im Vorfeld absolut keine vorgefasste Meinung noch irgendeine Art von gespannter Erwartung zu diesem CP und Parcours. Aber: ich war angenehm überrascht. Ich fand in sehr schön und lohnend. Nicht notwendigerweise den Gipfel selbst und das verfallende Liftgebäude - Zeitzeuge der Geschichte sowohl des olympischen Geistes und des Friedens als auch der dunklen Seite der Menschheit und Krieg. Sondern mehr von den friedlichen Hügelketten des Dinarischen Gebirges und des sich windenden Schotterwegs selbst.
And suddenly it’s autumn! There will be some really warm days in this year but last weekend called for the first outing in long sleeves. And the gravel bike is also appropriate to enjoy the forests in the coming time.
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Und plötzlich ist es Herbst!
Es werden noch einige richtig warme Tage in diesem Jahr kommen. Aber das letzte Wochenende rief nach langen Ärmeln. Und das Gravel Bike ist ebenfalls genau passend, um die Wälder in der kommenden Zeit zu genießen.
Me rocking my new Café du Cycliste Audax kit on it's "birthplace" - in Nice.
I just posted an article on my blog with musings and take away messages on good cycling clothing in general and my impressions of the 'Mathilde' Bibshorts and the 'Mona' Jersey.
torstenfrank.wordpress.com/2018/07/20/merkmale-gut-sitzen... (in German)
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Ich, mein neues Café du Cycliste Audax Kit spazierenfahrend. Da, wo seine "Geburtsstätte" ist - in Nizza.
Ich habe soeben einen Artikel auf meinem Blog veröffentlicht, wo ich Gedanken zu den Merkmalen guter Rennradbekleidung im Allgemeinen und meine Eindrücke zu den Trägerhosen "Mathilde" und dem Trikot "Mona" schildere:
torstenfrank.wordpress.com/2018/07/20/merkmale-gut-sitzen...
Can you believe it that I only just now came to work on most photos from last year? And e.g. stitch all those Panoramics like my #lifebehindbars shots mostly are? Yeah, me neither. But there you have it.
Cobbles! In the upwards direction the mostly harmless but picturesque variety. The famous Val Tremola and the old road up to the St. Gotthard Pass.
If you haven’t it already on your bucket list, be sure to add it. You won’t be disappointed.
The Pro-Tone series of Telecasters, Stratocasters and P/J Basses was produced from 1996 to 1998 and featured a solid ash body, 1-piece maple neck, and three single-coil alnico pickups. The series was manufactured in Korea (many in the Cort factory) and was available in a handful of finishes: vintage blonde, crimson red, black, three-tone sunburst, trans-sapphire blue and Olympic white. The crimson red, and trans-sapphire blue finishes came with gold hardware.
There was a special edition Pro-Tone called the 'Fat Strat' that had a black finish with a matching black headstock, 22 frets, a bridge humbucker, and a Floyd Rose double locking tremolo. There was also a "Fat Tele" that featured a natural finish, rosewood fretboard and humbucker pickups. The Thinline Telecaster featured a unique f-hole design not found on other Fender/Squier Thinline Telecasters, and is possibly the rarest of the series.
The Pro-Tone Series also feature a special Squier decal on the headstock that was styled to resemble the vintage Fender spaghetti logo, and included a smaller "Pro Tone" decal on the end of the headstock.
In spite of having a Squier decal, these are a well-crafted guitar that sold for a low price and rivaled most "Made in Mexico" and USA-made Fenders made at the time. It is believed that because of their quality, these guitars began to eat into the sales of the more expensive USA Fenders.
Fender discontinued the Pro-Tone series in 1998 and dedicated the Squier brand to lower-end product lines.
Featuring Fender Lace Sensor Pickups
1996 Squier Pro Tone Stratocaster Model 033-2700-x00
The Pro-Tone series of Stratocasters was produced between 1996 and 1998 and featured a solid ash body, a 1-piece maple neck, and three single-coil alnico pickups. The Pro-Tone line was manufactured in Korea (many in the Cort factory. It was available in a handful of finishes: vintage blonde, crimson red, black, three-tone sunburst, trans sapphire blue, and olympic white. The crimson red, and trans sapphire blue finishes came with gold hardware.
There was a special edition Pro-Tone called the 'Fat Strat' which came in black with a black painted headstock, 22 frets, a bridge humbucker, and a Floyd Rose double locking tremolo.
The Pro-Tone series of Telecasters, Strats and Basses was produced from 1996 to1998 and featured a solid ash body, 1-piece maple neck, and three single-coil alnico pickups. The Pro-Tone line was manufactured in Korea (many in the Cort factory) and was available in a handful of finishes: vintage blonde, crimson red, black, three-tone sunburst, trans-sapphire blue and Olympic white. The crimson red, and trans-sapphire blue finishes came with gold hardware. There was a special edition Pro-Tone called the 'Fat Strat' which came in black with a black painted headstock, 22 frets, a bridge humbucker, and a Floyd Rose double locking tremolo. There was also a "Fat Tele" that featured a natural finish, rosewood fretboard and humbucker pickups.
Even though these guitars featured a Squier logo on the headstock, they were a very well made guitar that rivaled most "Made in Mexico" and USA-made Fenders. Fender discontinued the Pro-Tone series after deciding to use the Squire brand exclusively for low-end, low-budget guitars.
The Pro-Tone series of Telecasters, Strats and Basses was produced from 1996 to1998 and featured a solid ash body, 1-piece maple neck, and three single-coil alnico pickups. The Pro-Tone line was manufactured in Korea (many in the Cort factory) and was available in a handful of finishes: vintage blonde, crimson red, black, three-tone sunburst, trans-sapphire blue and Olympic white. The crimson red, and trans-sapphire blue finishes came with gold hardware. There was a special edition Pro-Tone called the 'Fat Strat' which came in black with a black painted headstock, 22 frets, a bridge humbucker, and a Floyd Rose double locking tremolo. There was also a "Fat Tele" that featured a natural finish, rosewood fretboard and humbucker pickups.
Even though these guitars featured a Squier logo on the headstock, they were a very well made guitar that rivaled most "Made in Mexico" and USA-made Fenders. Fender discontinued the Pro-Tone series after deciding to use the Squire brand exclusively for low-end, low-budget guitars.
The Pro-Tone series of Telecasters, Strats and Basses was produced from 1996 to1998 and featured a solid ash body, 1-piece maple neck, and three single-coil alnico pickups. The Pro-Tone line was manufactured in Korea (many in the Cort factory) and was available in a handful of finishes: vintage blonde, crimson red, black, three-tone sunburst, trans-sapphire blue and Olympic white. The crimson red, and trans-sapphire blue finishes came with gold hardware. There was a special edition Pro-Tone called the 'Fat Strat' which came in black with a black painted headstock, 22 frets, a bridge humbucker, and a Floyd Rose double locking tremolo. There was also a "Fat Tele" that featured a natural finish, rosewood fretboard and humbucker pickups.
Even though these guitars featured a Squier logo on the headstock, they were a very well made guitar that rivaled most "Made in Mexico" and USA-made Fenders. Fender discontinued the Pro-Tone series after deciding to use the Squire brand exclusively for low-end, low-budget guitars.
Overhaul time on the Strat. I should have left the strings on for this shot, but didn't think about that until it was too late.
The Pro-Tone series of Stratocasters was produced between 1996 and 1998 and featured a solid ash body, a 1-piece maple neck, and three single-coil alnico pickups. The Pro-Tone line was manufactured in Korea (many in the Cort factory) It was available in a handful of finishes: vintage blonde, crimson red, black, three-tone sunburst, trans sapphire blue, and olympic white. The crimson red, and trans sapphire blue finishes came with gold hardware.
There was a special edition Pro-Tone called the 'Fat Strat' which came in black with a black painted headstock, 22 frets, a bridge humbucker, and a Floyd Rose double locking tremolo. The Pro-Tone series was short lived as it's quality rivaled the American made Stratocasters and quickly eroded the sales of the far more expensive line.
I bought this guitar at Old Boise Music in January of 1997. The production dates are October '96 (Body) and December '96 (Neck) My only regret is that I didn't manage to buy more of these while they still were available.
1996 Squier Pro Tone Stratocaster Model 033-2700-x00
The Pro-Tone series of Stratocasters was produced between 1996 and 1998 and featured a solid ash body, a 1-piece maple neck, and three single-coil alnico pickups. The Pro-Tone line was manufactured in Korea (many in the Cort factory. It was available in a handful of finishes: vintage blonde, crimson red, black, three-tone sunburst, trans sapphire blue, and olympic white. The crimson red, and trans sapphire blue finishes came with gold hardware.
There was a special edition Pro-Tone called the 'Fat Strat' which came in black with a black painted headstock, 22 frets, a bridge humbucker, and a Floyd Rose double locking tremolo.
1996 Squier (by Fender) Pro-Tone Stratocaster & Fender Blues Deluxe Amp. The pro-tone was a limited series that met or exceeded the quality and sound of the American made strats at the time, for about a quarter of the price. They have solid ash bodies, excellent construction, and a great fit and finish. The series extended to Strats, Telecasters, and Jazz and Precision basses. The series was unlike any of the other "Squiers" before and after, and was discontinued when they began outselling the expensive Fenders. - They are somewhat of a collectable guitar these days.
With hand-drawn cover by Felix Kubin, made specially for Non-Event
Cat: GR 2006
"Whatever happened to the Scorpions when they started experimenting with electronic music?” is a question you may have never asked yourself. Even Juri Gagarin himself has to admit: This record is confusing. Side A starts with 10 short tracks ranging from clickclack disko to depressed protone music to noise collage to Dr. Phibes tunes. Side B contains deranged German singing accompanied by psychedelic automatic rhythm partners. To talk about the cover is much too confusing, says Juri. This is a perfect present for confused people you don't trust, like Jesus or your Mother. The music has been created by three notorious Noise Jockeys from Hamburg."
Scorpions on Phasing = Felix Kubin, Tim Buhre, and Asmus Tietchens
With hand-drawn cover by Felix Kubin, made specially for Non-Event.
Cat: GR 2006
"Whatever happened to the Scorpions when they started experimenting with electronic music?” is a question you may have never asked yourself. Even Juri Gagarin himself has to admit: This record is confusing. Side A starts with 10 short tracks ranging from clickclack disko to depressed protone music to noise collage to Dr. Phibes tunes. Side B contains deranged German singing accompanied by psychedelic automatic rhythm partners. To talk about the cover is much too confusing, says Juri. This is a perfect present for confused people you don't trust, like Jesus or your Mother. The music has been created by three notorious Noise Jockeys from Hamburg."
Scorpions on Phasing = Felix Kubin, Tim Buhre, and Asmus Tietchens