October 2, 2013

Guessing Game Results are Out!!

The 2nd CST Bike Challenge has been an enormous success with over 100 riders participating in India, China, Mexico, US, UK , Germany and France.

At the same time the Guessing Game proved to be extremely popular at all sites with about 2,500 guesses.

I believe that many of us were calculating the distances in great detail and judging by the quality of your guesses, I conclude that we have some fantastic mathematical minds across the organization!!

The cumulated distance covered by all CST bike riders and badminton players is 12,339 Kilometres.

This is the equivalent of:
  • A round trip Shanghai – Bangalore
  • 1,3 times Strasbourg – Moorpark
… and way beyond our initial objective of  9,500 Kilometres (Eric will soon be accusing us of sand bagging).

Consequently we are very pleased to announce that the following people made the most accurate guesses and will receive an iPad Mini each:


Marco Antonio Lopez Rubio
CST TJ

Julio Gomez Jimenez
CST TJ

The following people made the most accurate guesses per CST site and so they will receive a consolation prize:

CST China:
  • Andy Yu 
CST Concord:
  • Lonny Louie 
CST France:
  • Christian
CST Goleta:
  • Eva Myers 
CST Hilden:
  • Rolf Kuppers 
  • Justin Lewing 
CST India:
  • Praveen CB 
CST Korea:
  • Josh Ko
CST Minden
  • Sebastian H. 
CST Moorpark:
  • Federico Ortega 
CST Korea

  • Allen Lin

CST Tijuana (Industrial):
  • Ma de la Luz Lara  
  • Maria Norma Avitia 
  • Cristhian Gatica 
CST Tijuana (Transportation):
  • Laura Elena Torres Montoya 
CST UK
  • Terry Piechota 
The Organization team would like to congratulate the winners and thank all participants for their active support and generosity.

We will be communicating about the donations and charities later this month through the Bike Challenge blog and the CST Intranet.


Have a great day.

The CST Bike Challenge 2013 Organization Team

October 1, 2013

CST India has succeeded !

Completed finally

CST India team volunteers completed the Journey and in total there were 6 people who completed both days all the stretches and day we had excellent cloudy weather with temp around 23 and beautiful road with good terrain very few uphills and all members completed without retirement and then we had finished with a nice India Lunch and a nice nap before the bus took us back to our office. It was a truly memorable experience with all team totalling 1115.20km.

6 people whom completed from L to R Mallikarjunappa, Babu, Sridhar Nalluri , Raghavendra,Aiyappa,Govind


Day 2 Fresh start

Day 2 Stretch alongsisde river cauvery

Educating the Village Children

Fire dance with Indian Songs

Green Paddy Fileds in the background

Lunch for which we have been waiting

Teeth Test by Eating Sugarcane from the Fileds

Out-takes des deutschen Teams

 Da nicht alle Bilder im Vorfeld in den Blog eingestellt werden konnten, seht ihr hier die besten Out-takes des deutschen Teams.


Erika Kyselka: Organisation ist eben alles! Noch eben schnell eine Mail rausschicken ...
Schaut euch mal den Anstieg an! Nächstes Mal nehmen wir die Seilbahn.
Die Könige der Straße! Hoffentlich lagen die Burger nicht zuuu schwer im Magen.
Lana blogging live - Die Blogeinträge waren so frisch wie möglich
Was macht der Blogger wenn keine Infos reinkommen? Richtig!
Selbst Coca Cola weiß, wer die wahren Helden sind. Gerd, Frank und der Rest des Teams, ihr habt euch den Titel verdient

Stellvertretend für das beste Support-Team. Nadine war immer zur Stelle, wenn Not am Mann war.




Bei einer deutsch-französische Freundschaft darf das Bier nicht fehlen

An diesem Bike sieht man, was die Teams wirklich geleistet haben. Hut ab!

Endlich angekommen. Bei BEI Sensors wurden die Teams mit Getränken und Snack empfangen.

Nach dem Imbiss war Markus sogar wieder in Tanzlaune.

Die bildliche Zusammenfassung der Gesamtlage am Sonntagabend: Eingeschickt von Nils Keller :)

September 30, 2013

Final Day for the US end!


Beautiful weather and scenery lent itself to the final ride here in the US...

During the last few segments...

Eric Pilaud getting ready to join the team in Santa Barbara!

Maria Elena and Rodrigo replenishing before they hit the road again

John aka our very own Lance Armstrong

Jose marches to his own beat

Sag stop and a picture of the group:
Julio, Rene, Maria Elena, John aka Lance, Mark, Eric Pilaud, Bob, Andrew, Phil, Rodrigo, Jose and at the forefront Ray

A break and a picture
Left to right: Rodrigo, Mark, Bob, Andrew and Jose



Shots on the side of the road... hey, where's everyone else?


Pit stop, everyone?

Phil and Mark on the road

Some videos of the ride:






Eric joining the group


In the meantime... Families and employees of Moorpark and Goleta were waiting for the riders:

Eric Hencken, his wife and daughter waiting on the riders to arrive

Families and employees waiting for the riders to arrive


The riders arriving into CST Goleta:



At the front: Rodrigo, Maria Elena and Ray

Lance / John coming through the end with Andrew's girls cheering the riders on the finish line!
And a video from the riders point of view:


Andrew and his family at the end of the ride



Jose, Andrew and kids

Ray is on the floor! Has been riding for 3 days now!

Never would take Eric for a Pink Floyd fan, but here you have it!
Autographed t-shirts for next year?


Sag Support from TJ - Goleta



The entire team that rode the final day in North America!
Including the associations that sponsored the event and whom the donations will benefit.
FANTASTIC JOB TO ALL THE RIDERS AND ORGANIZERS!!!


Message from Dean to Jean-Marc Hubsch !



'A very big THANKYOU to Jean-Marc Hubsch and everyone at BEI Sensors for organising a very memorable reception and night out in Strasbourg.

After covering so many Kilometres, iwas fantastic to experience such strong welcome.

The trip around Strasbourg made us all realise how beautiful it is, with great monuments, excellent Choucroute, not to mention the beer!!!'



Wieder zuhause!

Alle deutschen Teams sind gesund und munter in Minden angekommen.
Danke für die tolle Zeit.

Ihr wart unglaublich!

Die ersten sind angekommen. Kavlico-Boden unter den Füßen.

Während die Ersten schon fast zuhause waren, standen die anderen noch im Elbtunnel im Stau.



Zusammenfassung eines Wochenendes in einem Bild: Fahrräder, Angel und DAS isotonische Getränk.

Die Freude ist groß. Auch das letzte Team ist wieder zuhause angekommen.

Auf die Brätzel! Fertig...Los! Motivation auf die deutsche Art!

Was macht man als Team der Helden, wenn man einfach nicht mehr kann.
Man sucht nach dem besten Motivationsmittel, dass es in Deutschland (neben dem Bier) gibt.

Improvisation ist alles.



Wenn Techniker und Mitarbeiter der Qualitätsabteilung auf einanander treffen und nach Motivation suchen... Es ist einfach zu komisch! Schaut euch das Video an und kommentiert es bitte.


Fahrradhelm? Angel? Bretzel? Was braucht ein deutsches Bastlerherz noch, um glücklich zu sein? :)