Dear Reader
This new function on our web-site will enable you to follow the main event of our 2010 Ride for Reading Tour daily. In one week we will meet in the IBIS Hotel in Basel, Switzerland on the evening of July 17th. We will start cycling on Sunday morning July 18th. The city of Lörrach right across the border from Basel in Germany will start our 2010 tour officially. Then we have seven days with 750 km (470 miles) of riding ahead of us until we reach Bonn on Saturday July 24th.
The highest elevation of the tour will be at 731m or 2398 feet. This will be passed on day 1, i.e. on Sunday July 18th. A profile chart of the first stage you can see when you click here.
For all those who are interested please come and see us at the Markt in Bonn (Altes Rathaus) at around 5pm on Saturday July 24th. The mayor of Bonn will officially greet us and hold a little reception.
On August 11th then Oliver Gritz one of the founders of Ride for Reading will embark on his big adventure and cross the US by Bicycle. Between August 11th and September 27th he together with one other cyclist intends to ride 5400 km (3350 miles) from Seattle, WA to New York. Also of this event we will report daily on this web-site.
Please come and visit us to see how the rides are progressing!