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Artikel in der Kategorie ‘Bike Brands & Makes’

Riding like Cowboy Henk

  • 24. Oktober 2016
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Bikes and Books – the two big (read: important) B’s in the author’s life, came together yet once more last weekend, during Public Day at Frankfurt Book Fair. The biggest Book Fair in the world … Weiterlesen

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Steel, resurrected

  • 30. Juli 2015
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There is an old steel frame which has been sitting in the bike room for a looong time, fixie-fitting drop outs and all. Consequently, there has been the plan for a workover into a fixed-wheel … Weiterlesen

    • Bike Brands & Makes

All I want for Christmas…

  • 19. Dezember 2014
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If I had only had one of these, my beloved TREK 850 wouldn’t have been stolen way back in 1998, in San Francisco: Even there, bike thieves don’t carry bolt cutters of appropriate strength (and … Weiterlesen

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Not so alien resurrection

  • 26. August 2014
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Although the current exhibition on historic bikes and bicycle history in Hamburg has found its home at the „Labour Museum“ (Museum der Arbeit), strolling through it is a real pleasure – no work at all, … Weiterlesen

    • Bike Brands & Makes
    • Classics

Greetings from Down Under

  • 24. Juni 2014
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Greetings from Melbourne, Australia. Despite the rather horribly long trip of a full 24 hours and the fact that duty called at 11am, the true bike aficionado stayed in the hotel only for a shower … Weiterlesen

    • Bike Brands & Makes
    • Classics
    • Trips & Travel

Celestial Himmelblau

  • 29. Januar 2014
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Ferrari Red – everyone knows what’s meant by that. Not too many bicycle manufacturers have their trademark color, however, some do. And like with so many other emotionally loaded aspects of bikes and biking, the … Weiterlesen

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    • Classics

Diamonds are a rider’s best friends

  • 4. Januar 2014
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Diamonds are a girl’s best friends – we’ve known this not only since 1949, the year in which the Grand Marilyn sang this all-times classic in „Gentlemen prefer Blondes“. No, at least among German cyclists, … Weiterlesen

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    • Classics
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A Lesson in Czech

  • 4. November 2013
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Do you know the word for „season’s end“ in Czech? It’s „Prague Mile“. And has been „Prague Mile“ for 20 years now – although it looks like this celebration of the last (official) ride of … Weiterlesen

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Cane Frame

  • 23. August 2013
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The Hamburg Cyclassics 2013 pre-hype has not even started (i.e. the cycle exhibition booths are still being put up), when I had my first personal hype already: Strolling over Jungfernstieg, taking in all those labels, … Weiterlesen

    • Bike Brands & Makes
    • Races & Racing
    • Trips & Travel

European Day of the Bicycle

  • 2. Juni 2013
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Rüsselsheim is known for cars nowadays. But that was only Opel’s second career. Way back in 1886, the first penny farthing rolled out of the Rüsselsheim factory. Two years later, the Opel bicycles were so … Weiterlesen

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