Went out for a little spin today (to get over the impatience of still having quite some days until I can start my bike packing vacation – compare yesterday’s post). And what can I say? I am obviously not alone: Even the smallish bikers of this world seem...
Have commenced reading this book „Biker’s Barbecue“ by the Micke brothers, Stefan and Tobias, two Austrians who decided to ride across the USA, from Boston to San Francisco, on as a low a budget as possible. I have to admit that this is really...
What a rare bike that was that I found parked next to „Schrotti“, my commute clunker, when coming back from work in the City today: Not too often that you see those any more these days – although they have been pretty popular in my childhood, in the...
Have you always wanted to ride a bamboo bike? Well, should be pretty lightweight – or not??? Guess, the easiest way of finding out is by riding one. Well, maybe not exactly one like this: Oh, right – it’s some sort of different material, not wood...
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...
The FDA has just approved a very smart pill, that seems to have an extremely high potential of increasing the compliance of patients with all sorts of diseases to take their (oral) medication on a regular, as-prescribed basis. Also, it is extremely cool that you are...
So far, I have ridden my single speed only in cities and on pretty flat terrain. Isn’t that the natural environment for this kind of bike that was born for track speeding and has been re-invented by the bike messenger scene? Well, today’s Olympic road...
During the last two or three years, I have completely lost interest in the pros racing around on whatever is the newest hype about the lastest pharmaceutical enhancement. Also the Olympic race which is currently still under way in London cannot get me all that...
Today, it was for the second time already that I road by this red or European squirrel – actually only a few centimeters past it. Because this Sciurus vulgaris was as flat as it was dead. Roadkill, to say it as bluntly as it presented itself to my eye with one...
Today, I am sending greetings not from Germany, but from Vancouver, B.C. My first time ever in Canada; so, I was pretty curious to see whether and how and in which aspects a city such as Vancouver is generally different from all those US American cities I have visited...
