Cycling is my great passion! Whether MTB, road bike or velomobile ... it has to roll! And preferably in the Ruhr, because this is where I live with my family. So why go far afield when the Ruhr region has so much to offer? Since the structural change, there are countless industrial [...]
199€ (RRP) is a lot of wood for a tail light! Is it worth the money? We will see! Why does one buy such a thing? Cycling is my great passion; not professionally ... but whenever I have time besides family and job, it has to roll! Especially on weekends, I'm [...]
If, like me, you ride your bike all year round and do cycling sports, you have certainly already dealt with the question of what you should ideally wear "underneath" ... especially in the cold season. Because if you dress warmly to protect yourself from wind and cold, then it quickly becomes too [...]
In my search for a successor to my now 6-year-old Garmin Edge 800, I ended up with the Edge 520 plus, which has been on sale since April 2018. Compared to its predecessor, the Edge 520 (without plus), the new one has significantly more memory (16 GB) so that now, for the [...]
Things to know 25 so-called anchor points form the core of the Route of Industrial Culture and bear witness to the industrial cultural diversity in the Ruhr region. At the same time, since the structural change, many slagheaps in the Ruhr area have been developed into so-called landmarks by erecting works of [...]
Almost everyone already owns a smartphone. So if you are planning to buy an extra GPS device for your sporting activities such as road cycling or mountain biking, you should definitely think carefully about whether it would be better to use your smartphone for this and instead invest only a fraction of [...]
Lupine? Thumbs Up! Let me say straight away that I do not work for Lupine and have no other relationship with the company. And yet, based on my own many years of experience, I find Lupine products extremely good and am therefore also prepared to pay the corresponding prices. The bottom line [...]
For weeks now, I have been using the small Bluetooth speaker Go 2 from JBL in my velomobile and am very satisfied with it. But as the saying goes: "The better is the enemy of the good" and that's why I'm still looking for other speakers for on the road and that's [...]
Music is my constant companion! Whether for private or professional use, indoors or outdoors! I also need a loudspeaker for the navigation announcements on my tours in the velomobile. Headphones are out of the question, because you should not be distracted by road traffic! During my research for a "suitable" loudspeaker, I [...]
Almost 4 months have passed since I ordered my DF from InterCityBike in Dronten ... then finally came the message from Ymte that I could pick up my velomobile. So I made an appointment, took a day off work and off I went. What concerned me most until then was the question [...]
