If you are Italian or if can read Italian or if you do not mind not understanding everything, then check out this link to the April issue of the Urban Wheels Magazine showing my pictures and an interview.
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Urban Wheels Magazine
Dienstag, April 15th, 2008Show of Young Athletes
Freitag, März 21st, 2008I went to the 31st International Easter Youth Days (Osterjugendtage) opening ceremony. It was a professionally arranged show with mainly athletes of clubs from Wilhelmshaven participating in the show. They had acrobatics, gymnastics, hand balancing among the many performances and most of the acts were very creative.
To get the show running there were a lot of helpers and sponsors. Here are a few of them standing around my trick bike:
The most famous beach of Wilhemshaven is the South Beach. It did not look like what I was expecting. And there was a very cold strong wind blowing.
Critical Mass Ride in San Diego
Freitag, Februar 29th, 2008This was wonderful coincidence! I am only in the US for a few days and I had only heard about Critical Mass but there was actually a Critical Mass ride in San Diego.
The general idea behind it is to have all kinds of bicycle enthusiasts to get together and ride together to create awareness in society of the huge bicycling communities (http://critical-mass.info/). San Diego seems to have this every last Friday of the month meeting at 7pm at the fountain in Balboa Park (http://www.myspace.com/criticalmassride). I have heard that in the past they had over 200 people join in for the ride. There is no route or destination – who ever is at the front leads the way. Families with children ride among, people who use the bike to commute to work, track bike racers, street racers, bike freaks, cool BMX kids, mountain bike lovers and many others and the fixed gear riders.
This was my first Critical Mass I have taken part in. I wanted to get there a bit earlier but we spent so long in the Velo Culture Bike shop to get my new Corima frame all ready to ride. I think I rode my bike for about 2 meters before putting on the pick up truck and driving to the Critical Mass meeting point. The ride had very good vibe and was really fun. Somebody counted 475 cyclists all cycling together. There are some videos on youtube. I only took pictures at the break:
So the San Diego Critical Mass was the inaugural ride on my new Corima fixed gear bike! It rides really smooth even uphill with the 70 gear inch. It was such a great feeling. And not only that, I actually also had my trick bike with me and did some tricks before the mass of bicyclists started riding through downtown and outskirts of San Diego:
I am very happy after I performed on my trick bike! Click here to see a video of my performance that night.
Fixed Gear Tricks
Samstag, Januar 5th, 2008Today the weather was really nice with sunshine and clear sky. The temperature was high so I decided to go out and do some tricks on my fixed gear bike. The bike is an artistic bicycle. I am looking for a nice track bike so that I can try some tricks on that kind.
Artistic Bicycling Short Film
Donnerstag, Januar 3rd, 2008This video is an old short film from 2000. I had it done as a promotional video to get into an international circus or variety theater. That is why I am wearing that costume. I never thought that it would become really popular on youtube: http://youtube.com/watch?v=MiE1Qm7HSd8
Extreme tricks on a fixed gear bike featuring Ines Brunn: