I love the Sauerland – not least because it feels like the first place where you can get some truly amazing riding after rolling off a ferry in Rotterdam or Amsterdam. When Weeble the photographer and I visited the area, our focus was visiting the dams that were the targets for the famous Dambusters raids in WW2 (which can be visited on the Dam Fine route). But there's so much more to see here.

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This is a daytrip I prepared for a customer earlier this year, as part of a bespoke trip to Germany. Feedback was good – it was one of his favourite rides of the tour. 

 

That's perhaps not surprising as I'd had a little help putting it together: one of my German friends lives within easy reach of the Sauerland and several of these are "his" roads, as he took my rough route and suggested upgrades and alterations. He rode it / tested it as well – and gave it a firm thumbs up. 

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So if it entertains the locals and my discerning customers, you know it's a sure thing…