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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. Last updated 8 April 2008 | |||||
Welcome to the Bergstrasse Bike Books web site. We publish cycle touring guides on a small scale about cycling in Germany and Switzerland, with odd excursions into Austria, France, Italy and the Netherlands. We hope that if you are looking for information on cycling in Europe that some of the links we give will help you. If as well you feel that you would like to buy one or more of our six books we will be overjoyed to send it or them to you. If after peering at the site and or looking through one or more of the books, you still have a question or two then drop us a line either by snail mail or eMail and we will do our best to answer the question/s as soon as possible, though please bear in mind that we will need to roam the highways and byways this summer to research our next book or update an older 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 have set up a blog that incorporate news about new cycle routes, changes in public transport and our feelings about cycling news. We also produce an electronic newsletter a couple of times a year and so if you are interested, drop us an eMail and we will put you on our circulation list, but on nobody else's (promise). We started this operation largely because when the male half of the organisation 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. The female half of the organisation 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 made it 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 | |||||
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