After riding for almost 7 years in and near Tokyo, it is easy to ride down a road and assume that you know it -- that there is nothing new t...

I had been a while since I have ridden with Bremen's SWB club. I started to ride with them last year. Nice guys in principle but not v...

I have started to buy, repair, restore and sell old bicycles just a few month ago, mainly as a hobby to spend the long cold winter days in B...

This weekend Jerome and I joined the Saitama Audax-sponsored 600km May 7 “Attack Fukushima Nihonkai” Brevet. We had both completed the 400...

The Giro d'Italia has started on Saturday in Turino/Italy. As usual the Italians have put up a good show. The HTC Highroad  team won the...

My son Henri and me went to watch the soccer game Bremen vs. Dortmund, the new German champion 2010/11 on Saturday afternoon. After being si...

(Almost) 45.000 hits achieved on May 3rd. For the record. For me personally interesting is the fact, that more than half of the hits were m...

It being Golden Week ("GW"), the traffic is very heavy on all roads in and out of the Tokyo area.  Sure, there are the usual 50km+...

The (official) start The top The view

Runjoo and Asesh are one of the nicest couples I ever met. Originally from Nepal, we met in 1994 when we were working on a dam construction ...

Wired Magazine has a short online feature about the bike messenger business in NYC.  From the photos, looks like the pavement is (almost) a...

I did not bring a camera on this Saturday's Brevet.  It would be enough just to try to keep my cellphone, blackberry and wallet dry. J...

During the dark and cold winter months in Bremen I developed a love for old bicycle parts. The magic letters are N.O.S.  the abbreviation fo...

I just packed my Cervelo and will bring it to the post office tomorrow. A guy in Holland bought it. The Cervelo was a good bike. I bought...

Inspired by tales of the Positivo Espresso Europe ("pee") training camp in Mallorca, still trying to catch up with my own Transalp...