Riders: Andreas Hessberg and Waltraud Schulze

Team: Mountainbike - Expeditions - Team
Discipline: Bicycle tours

Andreas Hessberg and Waltraud Schulze have undertaken several expeditions to various deserted areas of the earth. As the most extreme example of a bike tour serves the expedition through the winterly Northgreenland where Andreas Hessberg and a friend were on tour for three months in arctic temperature along the frozen coast line. Together with Waltraud Schulze he discovered some more white spots on the bike-globe, like Patagonia, (Feuerland), Mongolia and the desert Gobi, made a tour through the Kalahari (letter to Rohloff) and the morst dangerous desert Namib in Botswana and Namibia. To cope with these extreme difficult regions and climat zones one has to rely 100 p.c. on the equipment. Mistakes are not forgiven. Especially the Rohloff chain S-L-T 99 had proved several times to on of the most reliable parts on tour. The chain always works dependable may it be +45°C or -45°C, sand and dust, snow and ice. The durability test of a prototype of the Rohloff SPEEDHUB 500/14 had been worked out to our utmost satisfaction. The hub has managed the 5,000km through Namibia and Botswana desert's sand and dust without any complaints and has shown no abrasive wear on the surfaces after close laboratory examination. The fact that the hub hasn't been spared can be looked up in the most informativ and richly pictured webpage of the MET under MOUNTAINBIKE-EXPEDITIONS-TEAM.

Look up under: www.mountainbike-expeditions-team.de