Marcel and Lev's Bike Touring Page

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

North Coast Tour

And yet another touring adventure has taken place: Lev, Marcel, and two more gentlemen, Aleksey and John, all joined together for a fantastic, exhausting, 4-day tour from Rio Dell to San Francisco through the Avenue of the Giants. Covering just over 300 miles, we finished a beautiful stretch of the coast in fantastic weather. A wonderful 3-year anniversary of the first tour down the coast for Lev and Marcel. Full stats below:

Total Distance: 306.85 miles
Average Daily Distance: 75.53 miles
Average Speed: 12.43 mph
Top Speed (mph): 48 (Marcel), 41 (John), 44 (Lev), 44.8 (Aleksey)
Average Heart Rate: 136 (Marcel)
Average Time Rolling: 6.21 hours
Average Time on the Road: 9.8 hours

Monday, June 25, 2007

Mexico Photos are up!

Please visit the link below to view our 2007 Tour Photos.

Click here to see them!

Questions? Email: bikeforacure (at) gmail (dot) com. Enjoy!

Friday, June 22, 2007

More Statistics!

Here are just a few of our San Jose-Tijuana statistics. For a full report please e-mail us: bikeforacure (at) gmail (dot) com

Total Distance: 601.01 miles
Avg Daily Distance: 85.86 miles
Total hours on the road: 60.5
Avg hours on the road per day: 9.55
Total hours moving: 44.25
Avg hours moving per day: 6:19
Avg speed: 13.03 mph
Max speed: 47 mph
Avg Max Speed per day: 37.64 mph
Total Expenditures: $474.25
Days riding: 7
Days gone from home: 9
Hours traveling from San Ysidro to San Jose via Greyhound: ~11.5

Thursday, June 07, 2007

The end of the coast is here!

The news is now official:

Lev and Marcel have finished up the Pacific Coast bike ride by biking from San Jose to the Mexican border in June 2007! We finished the ride in just over a week and we will be posting stats and pictures soon. Stay posted!

Thanks for everyone's continued support and please help us get to our fundraising goal for the Lance Armstrong Foundation by donating via the "Donation Page" link on the right.

Friday, December 15, 2006

Thank you RoadID!

We would like to thank RoadID for improving the safety of our trip. They donated two ankle ID tags with our medical and contact information so that if anything happens to us the rescuers know what to do and whom to call. Thank you!

Saturday, August 12, 2006

News Flash!

Check out the front page of the Cupertino Courier on August 2nd, 2006 via the links below!
http://www.community-newspapers.com/archives/cupertinocourier/20060802/cover1.shtml
http://www.community-newspapers.com/archives/cupertinocourier/20060802/index.shtml

Questions, Problems, etc? Contact Marcel at bikeforacure (at) gmail (dot) com

Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Statistics!

Here are just a few of our Vancouver-San Jose statistics. For a full report please e-mail us: bikeforacure (at) gmail (dot) com

Total Distance: 1293.93 miles
Avg Daily Distance: 68.1 miles
Total Hours on the road: 157
Avg hours on the road: 9.24
Avg hours riding per day: 5:25
Avg speed: 12.4
Max speed: 49 mph
Avg Max Speed per day: 39.69 mph
Total Expenditures: $550.36
Avg daily expenditures: $28.97
Days riding: 19
Days gone from home: 21
Hours traveling to Vancouver from San Jose via Amtrak: ~30

Support Livestrong!

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help support the Lance Armstrong Foundation!
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(If this doesn't work, please visit:
www.livestrong.org/grassroots/marcelstieber)

Pictures!

So Marcel was finally able to upload all his photos onto Snapfish with his super slow computer! They are there for your viewing pleasure.
Click here to view them!

Or go to the website below if the link is broken: http://www1.snapfish.com/share/p=90121152734568069/l=110049822/g=52131256/otsc=SYE/otsi=SALB

Sunday, June 11, 2006

Pictures!

Due to popular request to post some pictures, we are now posting pictures from some of our training rides. They were talken by Marcel unless Marcel is in it, in which case Lev took it and if we're both in it then the fence post took it

for us (ie. self-tim

er!).

Monday, May 29, 2006

Thursday, May 25, 2006

We have bikes!

Thank you Eric and Dean for each letting us use your bicycles on our tour! We really appreciate your contributions!

Tuesday, May 23, 2006

A huge thanks to Bellwether and Profile Design!

An extra special thanks goes to Bellwether and Profile Design for their very generous donations of 4 jerseys, 4 shorts, 2 base layers, 6 socks, 2 booties, 3 jackets, and 2 very nice Century Aerobars! WOW! We really appreciate it! Thank you!