Riding like Cowboy Henk

Riding like Cowboy Henk

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 featured the Netherlands and Flanders. And as those know...
Steel, resurrected

Steel, resurrected

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 ride for quite some time. Only that another one of those single speeds has...
All I want for Christmas…

All I want for Christmas…

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 size), I reckon. So, put it onto your wish list for Santa, if...
Not so alien resurrection

Not so alien resurrection

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, all play. And a lot of eye-openers with respect...

Greetings from Down Under

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 and a change of clothes prior to setting off again; in order to pick up...