One man has made it his mission to set up a bike-sharing network in Berlin, loaning out <i>Fahrräder</i> for free. Trust advocate Graham Pope spoke to The Local about cycling into the future.
It's a standard for clowns and festival show-offs, but Lutz Eichholz takes his unicycle where others fear to go - the 26-year-old rides his down mountains. He told The Local how he became a semi-pro extreme unicycler.
German firms which offer their staff company bikes can now write off the tax just as they do with cars, after the authorities changed the regulations, potentially creating a whole new commuting culture.
German cyclist Jan Ullrich on Friday refused to speculate whether he would be handed three Tour de France titles which seem certain to be withdrawn from US rider Lance Armstrong over doping claims.
Three years after surviving an horrific accident, German cyclist Kristina Vogel will arrive at the Olympics as the world team sprint champion and record holder.
Germany’s most famous cyclist Jan Ullrich was found guilty of doping and stripped of his third place in the 2005 Tour de France by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on Thursday.
Nearly 180,000 bikes were stolen across Germany in 2010, estimated at a value of €120 million. According to a new study, more than over 90 percent of bicycle thefts go unsolved.
Germany might still be known for its high-speed autobahns, but in cities, bicycles are now so popular that a war of words has broken out between drivers and cyclists over who rules the road.
North Rhine-Westphalia might be Germany’s most populous state, but a vast expanse of untouched nature lies not far from the dense urban area surrounding Cologne. Alexander Bakst goes cycling in the Eifel.
With footpaths increasingly clogged with chained-up bicycles, the city of Munich is set to mandate bike parking spaces be installed at newly constructed buildings. It's a positive step, but cyclists around Germany deserve even more, one expert says.
Cycling has always been considered a green form of transportation, but as Alexander Bakst reports, German engineers are hoping to make “organic” bikes from sustainable materials more popular.
A German cycling enthusiast almost lost a few fingers after attempting to bike through Siberia in subzero temperatures, a Russian news report said Tuesday.
Vehicles for city tours such as multi-person bikes offering free-flowing beer and electric Segway scooters are increasingly sparking the ire of both motorists and pedestrians in Germany, leading some cities to consider banning them.
Former cycling champion Jan Ullrich could face renewed criminal charges after a civil judge ruled that he had paid €55,000 to a doping doctor – despite having denied the payment on oath in court.
A mountain biker from the small town of Schwiegershausen in Lower Saxony, who lay injured in woods for four nights, was found alive by police on Saturday.
It’s been a fixture on Berlin’s sporting calendar for almost a century: six straight days of indoor track cycling. <b>Andrew Curry</b> delves into a legendary <i>Volksfest</i> of beer and big gears.
A university student has been banned from riding his bike for a whopping 15 years after police caught him pedalling blind drunk through the streets of his home town of GieĂźen, <i>Bild am Sonntag</i> reported Sunday.
Former cycling pro Jan Ullrich visited a notorious doping doctor 24 times during the last three years of his career, according to documents seen by news magazine <i>Der Spiegel</i>.
The positive test of German cyclist Stefan Schumacher for EPO Cera during last year's Olympic Games has been confirmed by the B sample, his lawyer Michael Lehner said on Tuesday.
Germany's retired former Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich is to be the subject of a disciplinary procedure by the Swiss anti-doping commission, daily <i>SĂĽddeutsche Zeitung</i> reported on Tuesday.
They’re sleek, fast and illegal in Germany: fixed-gear bicycles. Marc Young reports on how trendy fixie riders have sparked a police crackdown in Berlin.
Who says green vehicles can’t be cool? A Berlin-based inventor has created a “human-hybrid” cycle combining a zippy electric motor with pedal power. Andrew Mach takes the eRockit out for a spin.
More than 1,000 couriers from Tokyo to Oakland will descend on Berlin’s Tempelhof airport this weekend for the 14th European Cycle Messenger Championship (ECMC), and defending champion Michael Brinkmann said Wednesday he is ready for them.
