European Day of the Bicycle

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 popular that the bicycle association...

Sana Per Aquam

The Romans knew it already and phrased it as „sana per aquam“ (which most of us only know as „Spa“ nowadays…): Waters of all kinds can have a healing effect on your body and soul. The latter is obviously something that biking can effect...

Ballet of Mallets

The bike polo show that was announced to take place during last weekend’s VELOBerlin 2013 apparently had to be cancelled. What a shame – I bet it would have been quite a spectators‘ magnet. Those guys (and gals) doing the bike polo „Ballet of...

No Sports

First (i.e. most important) things first: VELOBerlin explicitly does not want to be „an exhibition for bike sports“. It even sounded like they want to showcase all sorts of bicycles and bicycle-related aspects but bike sports. Too bad this statement,...

Foreshadowing VELOBerlin 2013

Unfortunately, I will not be able to you, directly from the show, the latest bike/-ing trends that will be presented on the upcoming VELOBerlin 2013: Conflicts of time are keeping me from staying in Berlin until next weekend when the exhibition is going to open. But I...