Dem Mythos auf der Spur …

Dem Mythos auf der Spur …

Nach vielen Wochen Planung, Organisation, Werbemaßnahmen und emotionaler Vortragsabende ist der Mythos der Panamericana-Tour Geschichte. Deshalb möchte ich mich ganz ganz herzlich bei allen 1.700 teilnahmsvollen Zuhörern und Zusehern bedanken, die mir ihr Interesse...
NPH Austria Special Event

NPH Austria Special Event

What keeps you occupied when you try to pull off the Americas-crossing: The Andes, Safety, Nutrition, Physical effort, Language, Culture, Lifestyle, Health, Traffic, Poverty, to name a few … but what really pushed me to the limits was my stint as an english...
2017: The end of the Rainbow

2017: The end of the Rainbow

From sleepless nights on the outskirts of Quito on New Years Eve to TV shows and tabloids in late December. One could really say S**T was going down big time in the past 365 days. The day it really struck me what a heaven and hell I had been trough was in early July...
MYTHOS PANAMERICANA TOUR

MYTHOS PANAMERICANA TOUR

Der österreichische Extremradfahrer Helmut Pucher erzählt über seine zweijährige Radexpedition von der Südspitze Lateinamerikas bis nach Alaska: 30.000 Kilometer, ausgestattet nur mit seinem klassischen Cyclo-Cross-Rad und einem Rucksack, ohne Unterstützung durch...
Happy B-Day Panam!!

Happy B-Day Panam!!

Birthdays always have their own little dynamics. But what went down this year really kind of knocked me out of my shoes. A farewell to friends in Tegucigalpa turned out to be a whirlwind of media attention that quickly turned into a hurricane … Here are the top...
Hells Angels Uncut

Hells Angels Uncut

As we all know the lure of the Alaskan wilderness has been around for a while. What got me started was way back watching an adolescent Ethan Hawk being chased by a grizzly in jaw-dropping WHITEFANG roughly 27 times. But than picking up a dozen years later my very...
Dear Pan American Highway

Dear Pan American Highway

Dear Pan American Highway, I vaguely remember doing my first bike ride. What I do remember is the build up to that very day. I was anxious over the outcome to quite an extent. As if being stuck in a remake of „Groundhog Day“ my mind kept looping a dream of...
Canada je t’aime

Canada je t’aime

They say you have to take the bull by the horns. Along with half a dozen Mesquitos, a couple of chickens and my trusted cyclocross I am squeezed into a pipante, the one and only mean of transport to navigate the backwaters of the Mosquitia. Set to finally...
Being John in Moab

Being John in Moab

In a time of copy and paste it is so important to create something new and nurture our own individual strength rather than look to others and try to imitate them. Because in the end what we tell is who we are. And that was exactly what I thought to myself on my fourth...