3M bitchin´ biker team

The beautiful countryside

The 3M bitchin´ biker team (that´s Mathias, Mario, and Marc) were on the road again with our bikes as soon as the first sunny days arrived in Germany. This time we went on a four-day trip through the Eifel, a volcanic mountain range south of Aachen, culminating in the conquer of the Hohe Acht, with 747 meters the highest mountain in the Eifel.

We did it :On top of the Hohe Acht

In the summer we want to cross the majestic Alps on bike, a brilliant trip that my good friend André suggested to do together. Unfortunately he has better things to do this year (he just made a new baby boy and that apparently is more important than our bike trip ;-), so we are going ahead with a slightly altered crew.

This trip was a sort of test: Can we climb an average of 1500 meters in altitude per day, as we will have to do in the Alps? Yes we can! We all passed the test, including Mathias, who I imagine will be the youngest biker to cross the Alps if he succeeds.

Roads Kill <- clicken Sie here ...

True story: In some parts of Australia - places where cane toads are abundand - teenagers play games like "toad cricket", "toad golf", or "who can kill more toads in one night" running them over with their car. Some Friday nights the roads are covered in toad guts, making you slip when trying to cross. While I absolutely condemn such senseless cruelty to animals, I must admit I have an odd - some may call it sick - fascination with roadkill.

I know I am not the only one out there (you know who you are). It is ghastly, I know, but now there is a new, healthy way to deal with this perversion of the mind: Plush Roadkill. Stuffed animals that carry all the gory fascination of a real mangled carcass.

Take e.g. Grind, the squashed rabbit:

The blood and guts and gore are made using the latest, cutting edge stuffing. It's a special new micro-bead stuffing that gives the guts and organs a more malleable, tactile effect. It makes it more squidgy. You can pull Grind's blood and innards through the zip that lines the right side of the teddy carcass.

Isn´t that cute? I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.

Via [Boing Boing]