It has been more than a week since the Tour de France convoy left Düsseldorf for Liège. A lot has happened in the peloton since then, falls and sprint duels have claimed prominent victims. We...

We still get questioning and skeptical looks when we claim that Düsseldorf is expecting the biggest event the city has ever experienced in just over thirty days. It is of course clear that we put...

Next weekend, one of the program items in the run-up to the Düsseldorf Grand Départ, which we in the cap are looking forward to, will start with the exhibition "Mythos Tour de France" in the...

Sometimes we ask ourselves how much bike goes in and with the cap. How many bikes can we get? Answer: mostly quite a lot. A weekend with a shop, three trips and two days at...

A hundred days before the start of the Grand Départ, our hometown switches to sprint mode – numerous cycling-related activities form the countdown to the largest sporting event Düsseldorf has ever hosted. Whether it's the...

When Brendt Barbur started the Bicycle Film Festival in New York in 2001, you had to be a great visionary to imagine that New York could be a good place for cyclists. In 2010, Eben...

In order to make urban cycling safer, not only must the infrastructure be improved, but a rethink must take place in the minds of all road users. Cyclists need acceptance and support, cycling must not...

Anyone who happened to visit the “Rund um die Kö” cycle race in May in recent years was quite astonished: hundreds of barriers, athletes who daringly pedaled handlebars to handlebars out of the saddle in...

In the summer of 2014, when we had the Cologne band Muskat as guests at the Schicken Mütze, who were touring NRW with a reduced line-up with a cargo bike and a classic racer, we...

“How does it start in Düsseldorf? The Tour de France? Why?" For us, who share our excitement, it is amazing when friends and acquaintances react in disbelief and look at us questioningly because they think...

At half past six we stood with our guests Lerke Tyra, Dr. Stephan Keller, Norbert Czerwinski, Prof. Thomas Fenner, Dr. Suthold and moderator Jan Gathmann from Bike Tour Magazine in the foyer of the Metropol cinema. The...

Bikes vs. Cars - Documentary, Fredrik Gertten, Sweden 2015 What a title: Bikes vs. Cars. Big fight, tough opponents. One quickly ends up mentally with the usual terms used by the car lobby and cycling...

It shouldn't really come as a surprise to anyone that we from the cap team are delighted that Düsseldorf will apply to start the 2017 Tour De France, the Grand Départ. But we're so presumptuous...

When we started with the hat a year ago, we knew the rough direction in which our journey should go, the first few kilometers were well planned. A really precise preparation of the route fell...

We met Sebastian one afternoon in the cap after we had previously been in contact via Facebook. When he stood in front of us, everything was a little different than expected. Because at first you...