50 Ways to Break Your Bones (& Bike Frame)

Off-road season has started, so here’s a little mouthwatering video: Gear up for going out and doing fun stuff away from paved roads. And you don’t even need a crosser, an MTB or a BMX bike – not, if you have control over your road bike the amazing...

Under Pressure

Guess, how I managed to blast off the rim shoulder of Clunker’s front wheel: I simply pumped it up.  Well, turned out that for this 26-year-old lady, 4.5 bars are too much pressure....

Berlin’s Tweed Day 2012

As I was away in the most extreme South-West corner of Germany, I could not take part in (or at least: take pictures of) this year’s Tweed Day cycling event in Berlin. Which is actually a virtual pret-à-porter event. Judge for yourself, as fahrradjournal.Das...

One more day, more than one gear

Only one more day before the annual Cyclassics race in Hamburg, Germany will have me show up at the start line (and hopefully at the finish line as well – not too long after, if all goes well despite the lack of sufficient annual riding kilometers in my legs)....

Back to the future

From the German perspective, yesterday’s Olympic velodrome was a place of joy and happiness. But have you heard of the Klappodrome before, the place of the annual World-Klapp? It’s the place and time for the original folding bikes (or...