bikes

a fair question. my preference is two, but i am trying hard to reduce wear on the tyres. below a rather good attempt to save back wheel rubber. and no, i’ve not fallen flat on my nose. below my somewhat less successful attempts to wheelie and a small jump. i must admit the whole film was…

in my report about the salzkammergut trophy 2006 i mentioned a new tool i have. if you want to be a bit more serious about mountain biking, you need to have some sort of measurement tool. just to know what distance you covered, or what time you spent on the trails, more sophisticated instruments also…

about a year ago i tried my luck – and my endurance – at the salzkammergut trophy in bad goisern for the first time. there were a couple of interesting outcomes: i had already expected that the number of training kilometers i had ridden would not be enough, but i did not expect to suffer as…

some people think that not braking makes you faster. i think they are wrong: braking late is what makes you fast. and of course knowing just how long you can wait before you hit the levers. hope makes beautifully machined one-piece calipers with 4 pistons – of course different sized. the levers are also machined…

after riding the vt for some time i felt it was just not doing what i wanted it to do. while it was reasonably light at around 13 kg i felt that giant had made some compromises to get there, especially with the fork and the rims. the manitou black was a bottom of the…

building it was fun, so the next question was: how much fun is it to ride it? i had high expectations. i bought a freerider because i wanted to get more performance downhill, and of course i had bought the ‘light’ version because i wanted decent uphill capabilities, too. the ‘pike’ stands for both: 145mm…

how do i explain this? do you know the feeling when you are almost, but not entirely, happy? and the feeling that things could be just a little better slowly pushes itself into the foreground, until you completely forget that things are actually basically really good, and there is only one way forward and one…

what do you do when the weather outside is cold & ugly, and snow covers the land? you take your mountain bike and have as much fun as possible in the woods. click on the picture below to see a little video i’ve made using the f10. i think i got to work on the…

there are times when i completely overestimate myself and do something entirely stupid. this time i went and registered at the salzkammergut mountain bike trophy in bad goisern. after all: i normally do about 20 km and 500 meters (change in altitude) for fun in the evenings; how hard can 53,7 km and 1936 meters…

when it comes to mountain bike riding we consider ourselves lucky: the taunus hills provide trails for (almost) every taste & skill. every now and then, however, we have to check to see if there are better possibilities elsewhere. this time we took a trip to the eifel. the eifel is old volcanic country: the…

addiction is a terrible thing. you know you should not do it, but you can’t resist. you try therapy, but you find yourself at the dealer’s again & again. and before you even notice you’re doing it all over. and it feels so good. well, after the 400 was stolen i needed a new drug:…