Just a reminder, we do not organize tours or lead tours. We only provide the information you can find among these web pages. So, do not ask us if we have tours starting in Podunksdorf to Neudorf on August 16th. You will not be a satisfied reader.

Due to some unscrupulous, scum-sucking, Internet spammers, we have decided to rejigger our feedback page. Gone is the simple form you can fill out and hit "Submit." Why? Well the spammers have launched Internet "bots," like robots, that automatically harvest e-mail addresses from web pages including this one. So I get an inordinate amount of spam in several languages. That would be fine if I were interested in underwear sold in Russian or Ukrainian. But I'm not. The other thing I don't want to know about are spare part manufactures (for either bicycles or bodies). I don't sell that kind of thing on this site.

So, what we have to do is to give you an e-mail address that really will not work. Then tell you in English how to make it work. The "bots" are not good at thinking or reasoning yet so they will not be able to harvest the real address but you can make it work and will be able to communicate with us.

1. Here is the address that will NOT work: tim@bicyclegermany.com

2. To make it work, simply add an extra "m" to my first name so it spells "timm." Without the quotation marks of course. Then type out the rest of the e-mail address. It's pretty simple really.

By the way, for those of you who do write. You may want to know what "bleib senkrecht" means in English. It means to stay upright or stay vertical. In other words, do not fall off your bike. In the German vernacular, one sometimes hears that phrase being used to mean to stay among the living too. I could mean it in that sense as well, since I am after all, a member of the Over-Fifty-with-Bad-Knees Club. As I push sixty (which should be enough exercise) I am slowly losing some of my friends, family, and acquaintances. That's natural I guess but I wish everyone to bleib senkrecht in all the senses of the word.

Revised: May 31, 2008