The Ruhr region is an Eldorado for cyclists! Whether touring bike, mountain bike, racing bike or velomobile ... everyone gets their money's worth here! Since the structural change, there are countless industrial and cultural monuments that should be seen, and at the same time many new cycle paths have been created to [...]
At the beginning of 2019, I started my merino wool self-experiment (link). In my search for the optimal clothing for cyclists, I had often come across merino wool before ... but had massive doubts about the highly praised properties of merino wool and its products: Properties of merino wool Very good insulation [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Podbike should be available from the beginning of 2019. According to its inventor Per Hassel Sørensen, there are already more than 1,000 pre-orders. The Podbike aims to combine the advantages of driving a car and cycling, i.e. you already have to pedal sportily, but you get electric assistance as well as [...]
This year's HPV World Championships took place in Kent (U.K.) from 13 to 15 July. Here is an interesting report in 2 parts by John Williams (velo-ads.com). Results and more info about this event can be found here!
"Nici" Nicola Walde has done it! After 24 hours, 227 laps and a total of 1,088 kilometres on the Opel test track Rodgau-Dudenhofen, she has set a new Human Powered Vehicles world record for women with her velomobile. Despite intermittent rain, she improved the old WR by 76 kilometres. The recumbent bike, which [...]
