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Many apologies for the absence… So many fun things happened this year since I moved to Berlin. The sun is setting earlier. The air is dark and chilly. Woah it’s already December! The end of a year. So a catch up. One more big party is coming up for your all year conclusion! I need more girls to race! ( ´艸｀) 〜♡

+ + THIS FRIDAY December 9, at Keirin Cycle Culture Café. Roll at 8:00pm + +

Pioneers of the global fixed gear bike culture Keirin Cycle Culture Café and Rollapaluza come together for the first ever Rollapaluza roller-race in Berlin.

Keirin Cycle Culture Café:

Keirin Cycle Culture Café is recognized worldwide as the first ever “fixed gear shop” having first opened back in 2004 as a hangout for their messenger mates (all members of Keirin and Rollapaluza are ex-couriers), selling them coffee, bikes and parts and mending their bikes. ( http://www.keirinberlin.de/ )

Rollapaluza:

The first Rollapaluza roller race was held in a pub in London in 2000 and Rollpaluza involves two riders racing over 500 metres on custom built static roller-rigs with their progress displayed on a huge dial and their times recorded by split-second digital timing, all to the backdrop of cheering crowds and pumping music.

Never seen Rollapaluza? check their movies: http://www.rollapaluza.de/movies

P.S. I’ll tell you about this + more stuff… but later.

Finding Berlin Tours: The first Singlespeed bike-tour and rental in Berlin.

If you´re looking for an alternative way to discover the highlights of the german capital, this might just be the perfect way to do it.

Head over to findingberlin-tours.com for more details.

Also happening in Berlin soon:

“Rue des Arts” Alleycat

Kino International, Berlin
Friday, July 29 at 7:00pm - July 30 at 7:00am

Explore Berlin Street Art, 10-12 Checkpoints and Party.
needed: Map, 3€, Digicam or Photo-Handy!!

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The Facts
1. Register with a team of 3 (its a must!) here: https://spreadsheets.googl​e.com/spreadsheet/viewform​?formkey=dDFrR3BKRERoTzB1W​mthWEdTZHV3d0E6MQ
2. uniform team trikot and team name required
3. be at the location at 11am sharp

The Disciplines
1. Slipstream madness http://www.komoot.de/c/str​eetbeefbattle#r=overview
2. Dartathlon
3. Best Style
4. Blind Date
5. Cross County
6. Hot Wheel

more info here.

My Coffee Bike “CharRie’s Café” debuted in Berlin last month. It was very quick! only after a few weeks I moved to Berlin. It was the perfect timing I arrived here. I got a chance to carry out my coffee-bike at VELOBerlin, one of the biggest bicycle exhibition in Berlin. Thanks a lot to Keirin Cycle Culture Café, they made my day and put me up with my coffee-bike at their booth for 2 days. I really enjoyed making lots of  my fresh hand brewed coffee on my bike café. I was very happy to see so many people LOVED my coffee. I was also selling a bag with Japanese flag design for donations to be sent to Japan. A lot of people donated. Thank you ♥ The exhibition was fun as well. Lots of cool bikes and live music set up played by bicycles.

Photo by: Maria Therese Laub

I served free coffee with my homemade greentea + chocolate cookies ♥

Keirin Cycle Culture Café booth

The bike parts were filled with rice. (We made sushi after the show)

CharRie’s Café Interviewed on the biggest newspaper in Berlin ♥ Dankeschön ♥

+ I was interviewed for an article for a full page about cyclist outside of Japan. Find me in this magazine, BiCYCLE CLUB ５月号. ( ´艸｀) ♥ hehe.

More photos HERE.

I´m miriam from berlin, normaly i ride my white single speed. but at the moment we got so much snow that i better  leave it in my backyard ;-((  the long winter here really sucks.
anyway here is my illuminated bike:-) i ride during the winter month.
i love to be in the riding flow through the city, it´s such a good feedling to be outside in the streets, to use the body to get from a to b. there´s  nothing worser than sitting in the metro starring out of the window!
berlin is the perfect city to ride the bike, besides the winter time. well, the true cyclists might say something different…. but jep;)

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If it comes to the topic of climate change, one is being confronted with a long list of things that aren´t allowed anymore. However, to speed up the necessary change in our  society, we don´t need prohibitions, but examples, dreams and social experiments.

Therefore, the Green Music Initiative created an Off Grid Experiment – the Green Music Fahrrad Disko. It´s all about music and energy without  an electrical connection / power supply.

The DJ is only going to be able to play, if there´s enough people (minimum of 4 at a time) producing power by cycling. Which means the DJ can only give you something – music – as long as you´re giving him something – energy. Pretty simple.

The Green Music Fahrrad Disko has it´s premiere on thursday, 19. August 2010 in Berlin. The event starts with a bike tour from Bar 25 at 5pm, which is gonna lead to a secret location. There, DJs of Bar 25 will play as long as enough power is being produced.

If you wanna get involved, RSVP here. More info here.

Reality Studio recently skipped the traditional catwalk and opted instead to show their latest collection on the streets of Berlin – on bikes! Models donned pieces from the label’s fall/winter collection and cycled around the city center proving that you can be stylish and comfortable on two wheels. The girls toured Berlin on Electra Townie bikes, don’t they look great?

World Hardcourt Bike Polo Championships in Berlin – August 13-15 2010.

Berlin is proud to host the 2^nd Annual World Hardcourt Bike Polo Championships! This event will bring 64 of the best teams from around the globe for a three-day tournament to be held at the new Berlin venue, the four-court Sportcenter Rennbahnstraße Berlin-Weissensee! The event is being organized by the same crew that hosted the Bike Polo competition of last years’ 14th Annual European Cycle Messenger Championships at Tempelhof Airport.