When the mountain bike is sports equipment and travel vehicle in one

The mountain bike is also a means of transportation. Four kayakers pedaled almost 800 kilometers through the Alps with bag, baggage and kayak on their bike trailers to navigate ten whitewater rivers and reach the spots in a climate-neutral way thanks to the bike. The Spaniard Sami Sauri took a similar approach: strapping her surfboard to her bike trailer, she cycled from surf spot to surf spot in Madeira, turning each section of the journey into a small journey in itself.

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Put your sports equipment in the car and off you go to the starting point. This is probably the most common way people practice their sports. The following two stories show how you can also practice your sport, combine two sports and experience a lot at the same time.

Crossing the Alps by bike and kayak

The Bike2Boat project shows just how much effort it takes to get to destinations that are otherwise easily reached by car. Kayakers Olaf Obsommer, Jens Klatt, Adrian Mattern and Bren Orton cycled or rather fought their way from river to river - under their own steam and with a whitewater kayak on a trailer. Climate-neutral travel, the landscape, the people and the discovery of reduced speed were the focus of the trip.

Olaf, Jens, Adrian and Bren transported everything they needed for their trip on their bikes and the trailer. Each vehicle weighed a whopping 90 kilograms. Instead of taking just under a week by car, the team needed three weeks to cover the 800 kilometers and 8000 vertical meters from the Inn Valley in Upper Bavaria to the Ötztal in Tyrol, cycling ten of the best wild rivers in the Alps along the way.

Bike2Boat Trailer

The whole video is available on demand at vimeo.com/bike2boat

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Small trips from surf sport to surf spot

She has two passions - cycling and surfing. Spaniard Sami Sauri took both sports equipment to the Atlantic island of Madeira as part of her project "Into the Atlantic Islands". Together with Sergio Villalba and Christian Rosillo, Sauri wants to change the way people go exploring, combining the sports cultures and landscapes of each location.

Biking has taken Sami Sauri around the world. She never needed her own car because she preferred cycling. And since the former criterium rider had already experienced several adventures on her bike in other places around the world, it wasn't a big step to combine two of her favorite sports. The somewhat different surf trip to Madeira became a special but also tough experience for the Spaniard, with each ride to the next surf spot becoming a single, small travel adventure.