When you are in Beijing and planning a bicycle ride the first thing is you look for the pollution stats, even before weather and wind. Pollution at that specific day was good because it was raining.

Doing my asian tour visiting Honkong was as well on my list to visit our SP Gadgets distributor but also looking for alternatives for SP Connect and looking for a nice ride.

New day, new Tuktuks and new early start with meeting at the shop of my contact Pankaj. This time a training day on the highway. We met with some other guys to ride a main highway out of the city.

Travelling to India was for me no expectation at all hearing many things already. But when you ask me what thought connects first i would say honking in traffic. My contact for the sales channel of bicycle for SP Connect products, Pankaj, did organize a bike for me

Dry again from riding the day before through Tokyo City i got picked up by Koji-san on sunday. The bike came onto the roof of his Subaru and we drove about an hour westside to do a nice mountain ride. Challanging though as we had a strong taifun the week before in that region.

Not the first time riding in Japan but first time in the metropole of Tokyo. Before the real loop with Koji-san the next day i made a city loop including a nice bridge and a weather connected to the name of the bridge.

After my first ride in Japan almost 1 year ago with Mt. Fuji this time i wanted to do a more relaxed ride closer to Tokio. Again i was renting at Tim who delivered a bike to Cross Coffee a meeting point for local bicycle freaks. After a few train rides i reached the place and prepared for my ride. I was early spring and a nice day to enjoy the countryside

Doing business in Japan was always a favourite thing in my business career. I like the japanese mentality and needed to build up a distributor network for SP Connect. When i say Japan normally you mean Tokyo and this was also the starting point for my most exciting ride.

My first time in Malaysia i could not manage to get a bike as well having a swollen ankle. This time i found a shop delivering the bike to my hotel. So i wanted to reach Genting Highlands as this was already a summit finish on the tour malaysia as former Pro Rene Haselbacher told me he was competing on.

Being a second time in Singapore in 2018, i was together with Lin WeiJian from Streamcast our distribution company for SP Gadgets. As he is also cyclist we decided to do an early sunday loop around the city connected with breakfast. A friend of him, Stuart Ralls, joined us and so the opportunity popped up to borrow the bike of his son.

Singapore a superlative city/country and working themselves on becoming the greenest city in the world. Therfore also a lot of bike lanes are already there and planned. On the other hand also a annual host of Formula 1. This was the target for this ride.

My first trip to asia after Covid started in Southkorea. Still difficult to enter the country and having a lot of paperwork in front, i also teamed up with a new distributor in the bicycle field. Also time to do my first ride in this beautiful country.

For this ride i was looking to a more outside Taipei and surrounding hills tour. My favourite Giant shop was again the start for it and as always the nice bike paths along Tamsui River leading into River Keelung and touching the always visible landmark Taipei101.

Taipei Cycle Show was again the main reason to come back to Taiwan. As for me Taipei and surroundings are a cool spot to ride a bike, i also this time tried to catch a ride after a meeting. At "my" Giant store i did reserve a bike ahead and so it was quite easy this time to get one.

The reason to go to Tawain is obvious. On one hand the major bicycle industry is located there and two important bicycle shows are are happening there. In my case the visit was connected to Taipei Cycle Show. And for sure i wanted to do a ride in this country to see Taipei 101.

It was my travel from Thailand to Malaysia when i had time to do a ride waiting for my flight. In Bangkok we attended Asean Bike Show with SP Connect and after days of standing on a not very satisfying exhibition i needed to do some exercise.

First time in southeast asia and so thailand i got the opportunity to join a groupride offered by a company named Spiceroads. Well organised i got a pick up from the hotel to get to the starting point of our guided tour. It was a quite international ride as next to the local guy a japanese and an australian rider completed the span to europe with myself.