This blog’s author had gone to an internet-free re-treat over the Holidays to freshen up and re-energize. High time to wish all the readers and bikers out there only the very best for a happy and healthy Year and Biking Season 2015. Hope you all celebrated in...
Cycling Season has come to an end some weeks ago, and the Year is slowly but surely now, too. The presents are unwrapped and revealed some options for „passive cycling“ (aka „reading material about cycling and cyclists“) for those of the...
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...
Every once in a while, the first Sunday of Advent is one that the author has to get through without the delight of having opened another little window of her Advent calendar – simply because the first Advent Sunday falls into the month of November, still. But...
There are many things and situations, experiences and encounters that are worthwhile of giving thanks. And more often than not, we don’t even pause. Especially those of us who live the life of the fortunate ones, when do we actually acknowledge that this is the...
Slowly but surely, the year is coming to its end – which definitely doesn’t have to mean that biking season is coming to an end, as well. You may have considered to put your bike up and start stationary training. However, how about investing not much more...
Inspired by reading the first issue of CYCLE and by the glistening sunshine, the old steel-framed Lemond Tourmalet was taken off the wall, for a short, but stylish last spin of Fall. The classic RSX break shifters had just been cleansed and newly greased again, so...
Germany has a new magazine about bikes, biking, bike style and cycle chic. Well, at least it’s imminent that we can all read this magazine: CYCLE – Das Bike & Style Magazin. I am among the lucky few who already have access to the first issue as of...
Today, I found this picture of Mick Jagger through the respective Facebook posting by Pret-à-Vélo: Look at the height of Mick’s seat post. Imagine what it would look like when he actually gets on the seat to get (rocking and) rolling. Imagine what his knees...
When the Wall came down 25 years ago, the effect was not only on Germans in East and West. In celebrating a quarter of a centennium (already!) all of this weekend, let’s think about some other socialist countries behind the former Iron Curtain which got...
