Departure

Mette and me are sitting at the main station in Mannheim. We are waiting for our train which will leave at 8:39. The weather is quite alright. It is a sunny Sunday morning. Ahead of us is a 6:33 train trip to Hamburg. The trip to the train station by bike was about 8km. So to say a "test ride" for the hundreds of kilometres ahead of us. Happy to say that everything went ok. My dad accompanied us to Mannheim. There is a lift at the Mannheim train station so we did not have to carry our bikes. Actually, others than originally planned we did not need take our front bags. We managed to pack all our stuff in two rear bags each. I was wondering for a short while whether it would anyway make sense to take the smaller bags for the lowrider as the bikes would be better balanced. However, I believe that it is better to have less bags to carry around.