Crotos - BaltiCCycle

This group was the first to depart from Athens. It is an international team organised by Crotos, a cycle tour company based in Poland. They left Olympia on the 20th February 2008 with a complement of 12 riders, two support crew and support van. Their website can be found here and some of the riders are writing blogs and others are keeping picture galleries as they progress.

Holger’s blog, in German; Carlotta’s blog, in Italian; Joachim’s blog, in English; Mark’s blog, in Dutch, Vasilios and Danae’s blog, in English.

Carlotta’s gallery; Marcin’s gallery; and Mark’s gallery.

Links to other sources of information - the BaltiCCycle website, a press release, an information website.

Members of the team at the start of the tour are -

Andrzej Gonski [Poland],

Carlotta Dall’Aglio [Italy],

Mark Van Essen [The Netherlands],

Monika Stasiuk [Poland],

Ryszard Karkosz [Poland],

Holger Halfmann [Germany],

Joachim Lent [Finland],

Njole Marcinkeniene [Lithuania],

Vasilios Mesitides [Greece],

Danaë Tezapsidis [Greece],

Valentinas Kabasinkas, [Lithuania],

Sigitas Kucas [Poland]

Jan Makawski

The supporting team of two is made up of Adam Chuszcz and Marcin Stepniewski

Other names mentioned in related postings on other blogs -

John [Ireland]

Guiseppe [Italy]

Gita

Bob

Daumantas

Rolandas

Edvinas

Brian & Alyson [New Zealand]

Milosz and Monica [Poland]

Postings relating to this group are -

Athens to Beijing 2008.3.8,

Athens to Beijing - update 2008.4.2,

Introduction to Joachim Lent’s blog 2008.4.6,

a2b - progress so far - 2008.4.10

a2b - Crotos, Georgia to Azerbaijan - 2008.4.15

a2b - Crotos in Turkmenistan, Part 1 - 2008.4.24

a2b - Crotos in Turkmenistan, Part 2 - 2008.5.4

a2b - Crotos - Bukhara - 2008.5.4

a2b - Crotos on the Golden Road To Samarkand - 2008.5.10

a2b- rerouting through Uzbekistan - 2008.5.17

a2b - Crotos, Uzbekistan into Kyrgyzstan - 2008.5.20

a2b - Crotos, through Kyrgystan - 2008.5.29

a2b - Crotos, into China - 2008.5.29

a2b - Joachim leaves Crotos - 2008.5.30

a2b - Crotos, from Kashgar into the desert - 2008.6.24

Lent’s new gallery - 2008.7.3

a2b - Crotos, across the Taklamakan and beyond - 2008.7.10

a2b - Crotos, to Zhangye - 2008.7.11

Nationalities represented by this team at the start of the tour - Lithuania, Poland, Germany, The Netherlands, Greece, Italy, Finland, Scotland.