The Black Forest is making a start. Esterbauer, one of the best-known specialist publishers of cycle maps and guides, is launching a new bikeline series for e-bikers. What is immediately noticeable is that the e-bike guide has a different format to the familiar cycle tour books, which were previously available in landscape format and in a compact square format. The advantage: the book is easier to read in the new format. The disadvantage: it no longer fits in the map pocket on the handlebars. Modern heretics ask: Who still rides with a map these days? In any case, in our opinion, tour maps are still ideal for planning and as a backup on tour. And the maps in the guide are more than enough for that.
The first e-bike guide describes 31 tours with a total of more than 1550 kilometres in Germany's largest low mountain range on 222 pages. We gave the book to our colleague from the Black Forest to review. And he was very impressed by the choice of tours and the tour descriptions. Where it says bikeline on it, it should be bikeline in it. Accordingly, the familiar content concept was also largely applied to the new e-bike book. For each tour there is a description of the route as well as tips and addresses for tourist offices, e-bike charging stations and interesting sights such as museums, old mills, visitor mines etc. for the individual places travelled to. Information and addresses for bike hire, bike repair shops, accommodation, guesthouses, campsites etc. are listed at the end of the book for each tour. The tracks for each of the 31 tours can be downloaded from the Internet. Under the Category Live Update Esterbauer Verlag always provides the latest changes and additions to the route, the accommodation directory and the tourist data.
A MYBIKE editorial tip from the E-Bike Guide Black Forest for a detailed foretaste: The Schwarzwald Höhenradweg Ost leads virtually traffic-free over 105 kilometres from Pforzheim to Freudenstadt through the northern Black Forest. The route, which covers 890 metres in altitude, runs exclusively on cycle paths and forest tracks and also leads to towns worth seeing such as Nagold, Calw and Bad Wildbad.
- Price: 17,90 Euro
- Scope: 222 pages
