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A small portrait of the FES (Institute for research and development of sports equipment), there are at Spiegel Online. In it the reader can learn that progress, against all prejudices, is not alone in the needle: How have the advances in frame significantly contributed to the average speed in cycling has steadily increased. It was 1903, when [...]

Hockey and cycling collide with each other rarely. At least if one disregards Olympic years, the three big tours overlap only minor parts with ice hockey. Okay, for the spring classics, it is bad, but that should not go there. If it now complains of Lentz (Armstrong, not Nethery) on the hockey, then you wonder [...]

Just before the start of the first big tour a couple of views of Rolf Aldag on the current situation of cycling. The interview reminds me of the way because I've hardly been busy as the Giro this year actually looks. And there is a nostalgic moment with this picture, too.

The title may sound a little harsh are not terminated, but ideally the spring classics for me. By and large, to have my two favorite sports, hockey and cycling combined well with each other, the most important events barely overlap. When the current is entering a crucial phase, the Hockey World Cup is over and if the [...]

In spiegel.de today is just a brief overview of the assembled VIPs written doping, which this year goes again Racing: Comeback of the semi-junkies. Only one is still missing ...

A nice little comparison between the cycling in the U.S. and Europe, U.S. says under the title The Tour de France and fat Americans. Well, the article is more about obesity in the world and prejudices against the Americans, but I can assure you from personal experience, that's just a cliche. [...]

All good things come in threes, so I rounded the technical innovations of the last posts of this revolutionary bike from. With this innovation, there are no guarantees more flat tires! (Yes, this is not done really well ...)

Although it is lame to blog content from Spiegel online, but because of the cycling so rare guest in the mainstream media is, I fall on it myself. The other day was an interesting new report from the bicycle industry: new materials in bicycle design: bamboo instead of metal I would be happy to still be ridden by Terrence Hill ...

Clever idea to use energy during braking, but when I can power on the role finally the stereo power?

Asked by Roger Willemsen time in an interview revealed Dieter Hildebrandt his life's goal to which the reader would probably not be expected, he wanted to climb the Tourmalet. In addition, we read of him an interesting assessment of Jan Ullrich: Hildebrandt: His achievement was epochal, the Epo is already included. Let's see how my performance on the Tourmalet next summer [...]