Here it is - my father's birthday gift

In Chiasso I received my Scott Addict R2 from Marjan, double world-champion in Mountain-Bike, from Slovenia.

Driving home from the train-station, I could feel the speed this bike has:
Mark Cavendish, Team HTC-Columbia, on SCOTT Addict: 6 stage victories at the TDF in 2009 and 5 stage victories at the TDF in 2010.

At home I compared the frame of the Addict with my RACER bike, used for daily cycling back and from work, and a CR1 Jean de la Tour 2003 Scott, I loved to cylce. (borrowed from Andreas, former top amateur triathlete).

Turning 50 - getting a new bike

When I joined high-school at age twelve, my father bought me my first bike. An "UTO" 5-gear steel-bike, blue-painted with yellow flames. Now 38 years later for my 50th birthday, he bought me a Scott Addict R2. No steel-frame, but carbon-frame 15.64 lbs (7.10 kg) light - not five-gears, but 30 gears Shimano Ultegra.

It is great to have such a father!