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Admittedly, I’m a bit nervous as I pull into a parking space at the Lindenhof andpull out the key – nothing but mountains around me, and the weather isn’t as heavenlyas I’d been expecting either. After a lousy winter, this, of all places, is where I’mgoing to start the season? Clutching my old brown travel bag, I enter the hotel lobby:a posh ambience bustling with activity and men in their best years with a – let’s say –determined air about them. The thought that they’ve probably got a lot more mileagein their legs than I do crosses my mind...I look around and my eye is caught a split second too long by a face that somehowlooks familiar. Bingo! The man sporting an athletic look starts walking toward me.“<strong>Storck</strong> road bike week? You’re in the right place – I’m Sebastian!” Now I get it – ofcourse, that’s Sebastian Lang from Erfurt, who only two years ago was still riding asa pro in Belgium and is now testing road bikes for the cycling magazine. “How wasyour trip? Why don’t you get the key to your room and then we’ll go down to the bikeroom in the basement to pick out something for you right away.” So here I am, right inthe middle of the action – I get into conversations with the other guests, we introduceeach other and immediately start talking about the weather, the mountains and thematerial. <strong>Bicycle</strong> wheels? Why don’t you ask Jörg Ludewig? That’s the guy over there.And the friendly character with the long hair, who briefly looks our way and says,“Nice to have you here,” is no other than Markus <strong>Storck</strong> himself.The racing machines of the innovative man from Hesse were one of the reasons thatmotivated me to embark on the trip to the Vinschgau, as the large bicycle room of theLindenhof is filled with exquisite <strong>Storck</strong> racers like a good wine cellar. Here you go:<strong>Storck</strong> has brought no less than twelve brand new Aernario frames plus numerousother top-end racers such as the super-light Fascenario with the integrated brakes.With a little luck, I won’t even have to take my own bike out of the car…Later, over a snack at the hotel bar, I’m not so nervous anymore about the shape I’min. My comrades-in-arms, whom I meet little by little, are feeling the same – we jokeabout aborted MTB units in the wet snow and futile attempts to catch a free spinningbike at the gym.41

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