WHOOPS. sorry, i messed up lol. i had some tabs open to thank subscribers and i saw your ass! of bike post on another person's wall. i thought the title was hilarious so i opened your profile onto the line of tabs... sorry!
Today I realized I have to rewrite some parts of ASS! of BIKE for an English audience, because a specific pun can't be translated properly. QAQ"
Okay okay, so Li will become a cat-lover in the English version. Poor doggos. Poor Rhyfu. She will have to redraw some panels. (LOL)
Thank you for reading the first three chapters. If you stumble across some mistakes, please feel free to tell me. I'm not a native speaker. Even though German and English grammar has a lot in common, sometimes the sentence structure is different.
I use DeepL auto-translate on the first step of the translation because it knows way more words and expressions than me. It's also extremely good at short sentences and at detecting common phrases, but sometimes it fails miserably.
I try my best to fix the mistakes and shorten my sentences, but as a non-native speaker, I'm obviously blind for grammar I haven't learned properly. X'3
I made a homepage for the upcoming release of ASS! of BIKE! You can now check out the characters adnd teams, as well as some additional info on the book and the race. Thank you!
https://anneatsusa.wixsite.com/assofbike
ASS! of BIKE is a German boys love sports comedy light novel. It is set in 2017 and tells the story of the Tour de France in an alternate reality. The stages are the same, but the weather conditions, the pro-cyclists and the atmosphere are different.
Similarities to real persons are a coincidence and did not happen on purpose. Sometimes cycling fans might remember similar events which happened at different races in the past. Since I'm just a mere spectator, I used as much inspiration as I could get to make this story as "realistic" as possible.
ASS! of BIKE was written in 2016 an 2017. The whole story has 21 chapters, a prologue and an epilogue. The chapters will be uploaded in pieces of around 1.000 words each. The chapters will be uploaded every wednesday. If a chapter is a bit too short, another chapter will be uploaded the next monday. Every chapter is divided into two to four pieces.
The translation might sound a bit itchy. It was made with DeepL and was triple checked by myself, but I'm sure you'll still find a lot of mistakes (I can't afford a good proof-reader at the moment, sorry).
Feel free to tell me if I messed up some grammar, so I can fix my mistakes and improve my English for future uploads! Thank you!
The title is a German pun. In German "Ass" means "Ace", so the title is bilingual and can be translated to "Ace of Bike". That's why the series name icon has trump card symbols in it. Yeah. It's all about playing card games on bicycles and nothing else, haha...
Every illustration was made by Rhyfu. Please support her as well:
https://tapas.io/Rhyfu
If you are fluent in German, please check out the book release, published by CatMint. Every volume has two additional chapters which won't be uploaded online:
https://catmint.at/shop/