Yesterday I picked up my new bike, a recumbent made by AZUB in Uhersky Brod (map). When I was there to testride and ordered the bike I made the decision to ride the bike home. It was a 150km trip trough the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Austria. It took me 8h 45 minutes to arrive back in Vienna. A couple of things got clear to me while riding the bike and I decided to blog about. However, since I dislike the classic 7 Things you need to know about ..., 12 Ways to ... posts (they seem to be popular though), I decided to make this into a miniseries, elaborating a little longer on each point. The following posts will cover: