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Life as a Female Bike Mechanic – Swapping a Desk for a Spanner

Where is the boss? Pez and Sophie are sometimes asked this question. However, the two women are their own bosses when they are tinkering on bicycles. The bicycle shop Das Radhaus in Vienna is organised as a collective consisting of a team of seven people. Three of them are women, which is no coincidence.

The Critical Mass – Cycling as a Political Statement

Doris and Peter live in Vienna. They enjoy living here and like the city. The only thing that the two all-weather cycling enthusiasts are not so keen on is the traffic. Accordingly, they are regular participants in the Critical Mass, a monthly “cycle demonstration”. In Vienna alone, up to 1,000 people take part in this group ride on the third Friday of every month. The route of this ride is different each time, but one thing always remains the same – the desire to raise awareness for environmentally friendly mobility and to make a political statement. Doris also cares about this.

Messengers for Good – a Network for Cycle Messengers

The formation of a club of Austrian cycle messengers, or: How do you get a chaotic cluster of very busy bike messengers to organise themselves, focus and create awesome things? A field report.

Tall Bikes Offer New Perspective on City

Technically, cycling with two bikes is banned. Except if they are built on top of each other and called “tall bikes”. Metaphorically speaking, you sit on these at least a floor higher than the usual riding position. Tall bikes offer an incomparable view and leave people looking on in astonishment.

Everything “velo” in Nantes. Velocity 2015

Paris has the biggest potential to become the most bicycle-friendly city in the world, declared Christophe Najdovski, deputy mayor of Paris, at the competition organised by the Danish bicycle embassy for the future no. 1 cycling city. With his argument that Paris, compared to Copenhagen and Groningen, has even more pristine roads that can be made into cycling zones, he checkmated his counterparts Morten Kabell, mayor of Copenhagen, and Paul de Rook, mayor of Groningen. Even if the battle between the three mayors wasn’t that serious and brought up a lot of laughter, Paris’ mayor spoke clearly about the big plans for Paris.

Culture Exchange – New Bike Café in Graz

Anna Powdrill, one of the owners of the Culture Exchange - bike shop, bike kitchen, café and restaurant - in Graz and Novi Sad, shares her personal long and incredible journey of founding this place together with five friends.

A Day in the Life of a Bike Messenger

"Why is this monkey suddenly making such strange noises, and being so loud, obnoxious and annoying? We had just been talking completely normally". Such thoughts go through my sleepy head, when reality slowly penetrates the dream world and tries to wake me up for a new day.

Velo-city Conference 2015 in Nantes: It’s All About Cycling

The Velo-City conference is moving cycling issues forward on a global scale, bringing advocates together with experts, the industry, and policy makers. This year’s Velo-City is held at French Nantes, that claims to be the 7th most bicycle-friendly city. It ...

Bicycle start-up: Upperbike

A rental platform for everyone to rent and hire out bicycles on. Or in brief: Airbnb for bicycles. That’s Upperbike As is so often the case with great ideas, the concept of Upperbike is incredibly simple. The start-up from Berlin ...

“Cycling is Good for Your Karma”

Maria is a passionate cyclist and a bikefex Guide. She prefers stylish city bikes, crossing the Alps on vacation on a mountain bike and dreams of bike highways. Why are bicycles so important to you? On one hand, riding a ...