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in Europe in Germany in Switzerland
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Welcome to the Bergstrasse Bike Books web site. We publish cycle touring guides on a small scale about cycling in Germany and Switzerland, with excursions into Austria, France, Italy and the Netherlands. We have also written a book for Cicerone the best known British outdoor publisher: "Cycle Touring in Switzerland". We normally have copies of this book for sale in case anybody wants an autographed copy. To be honest the book is available from booksellers, Amazon and Cicerone themselves often with free postage, so it is probably wiser to buy the book from somewhere else. If you are looking for information on cycling in Europe, we hope that some of our links will help you. If as well you feel that you would like to buy one or more of our six self-published books we will be overjoyed to send it or them to you. If after looking through the site and/or one or more of the books, you still have a question or two then drop us a line either by snail mail or eMail . We will do our best to answer the question/s as soon as possible, though please bear in mind that we need to roam the highways and byways in summer to research our next book. Although we endeavour to check our eMail frequently, we can’t do it every day when underway. The "Other links" section includes the adddresses of some, but not all organisations in Germany where you can hire a bike or a tandem or a trike. We started this operation largely because when Neil came to Germany about 30 years ago, he fell in with a group of cyclists. He started cycling again after a break of about 20 years and enjoyed it. Judith on hearing that he had taken up this activity, decided that he had a death wish, but was persuaded to try touring when they finally got married and she came to Germany. Our first major tour on a fairly new seven-gear touring bike and a three-speed mail order clunker was along the Danube from its source to Vienna. We found it exhilerating in spite of dreadful weather at the start and a stomach disorder at the end. We then started to look farther afield and discovered that there were few books in English about cycling in Germany. We also found that some of the German cycle guides appear to have been written using a car for major portions of the trip. We thought this was a bit off (more than a bit, actually) and that there was room in the world for cycle guides researched on bicycles. At the time both of us were working in scientific | publishing and had found out a bit about book publishing. Over a couple of years we chatted to various souls in the publishing business about a series of cycle touring guides. There was absolutely no interest, so we decided to publish them ourselves. If you want see why we enjoy cycling so much check out our photo gallery. Latest News: Omnimap.com in Burlington, North Carolina now carries full stocks of all our books. This makes it much easier and cheaper for our North American customers to buy our books. Russell Guy guy@omnimap.com Omnimap.com www.omnimap.com/catalog/cycling/bergstrasse.htm International Map Specialists Tel.: 800-742-2677 (USA only) P.O. Box 2096 Tel.: 336-227-8300 (International) 1004 South Mebane St. Fax: 336-227-3748 Burlington, NC 27216-2096 USA
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