German cities are clogged by commuter cars every single day. London was clogged by commuter cars every single day. Then, London banned car traffic from the inner city. Now, the City decided to invest more than 1 billion Euros (yeah, that’s a one with 9 zeros to...
If the kids are convinced that biking can be cool even with a little basket on the bike rack and with painted finger nails, then we are on a good track: The 2013 „Like It – Bike It“ film contest – with the jurors rating and ranking bike-topics...
Ferrari Red – everyone knows what’s meant by that. Not too many bicycle manufacturers have their trademark color, however, some do. And like with so many other emotionally loaded aspects of bikes and biking, the Italians have been at the forefront of the...
Diamonds are a girl’s best friends – we’ve known this not only since 1949, the year in which the Grand Marilyn sang this all-times classic in „Gentlemen prefer Blondes“. No, at least among German cyclists, this should have has been known...
The mission of trying to get a handful of used bikes together to be transported to Burkina Fasohas been accomplished. And apparently the pre-Christmas season was a good time for such an initiative: Within 48 hours there were almost 30 bikes that people wanted to give...
It’s Advent time and my US ex-house mate just told me that whenever she thinks of me, she also has to think of those Advent calendars that came into the pure-bred US household at the beginning of December. My Mom used to take care of that tradition not having to...
It’s cold. It’s wet outside. It’s that time of the year again when German bike whimps such as the author prefer anything that can be done inside over The Real Thing: theoretical biking, reading about biking … Admittedly that’s lame. But...
While the rain on the roof is drumming the beat to Rodger Hodgson’s „It’s raining again“ in my head, it should not be forgotten that the nicest pictures are rain-washed ones. Pieces of art, even. Sometimes. If you like the picture as much as...
Do you know the word for „season’s end“ in Czech? It’s „Prague Mile“. And has been „Prague Mile“ for 20 years now – although it looks like this celebration of the last (official) ride of the season should have a...
Some of these recent first days of Fall have been really golden – with the Indian Summer colors adding sparks and light to the sunny (and still pretty warm) days. But others have been … well, real Fall days. Grey. Wet. Muddy. Don’t let your...
