Outside, the winter weather is showing its lousy side, inside it's warm and your legs feel thick from the #Festive500 of the last few days. We allow ourselves a short, necessary break. Exactly the right...

winter bitch parade time. From November to February. Every Sunday at 11 am Meeting point on the Rheinterrasse. And then we crank off together. Two to three hours. Flat stretches on the left bank of...

It has been more than a week since the Tour de France convoy left Düsseldorf for Liège. A lot has happened in the peloton since then, falls and sprint duels have claimed prominent victims. We...

The time has come. Starting next Thursday, Düsseldorf will be associated with cycling all over the world. 60 million people in 190 countries will view images of this beautiful city on the Rhine via TV...

Espresso and a good mood before the start of our second trip with Rapha in the run-up to the Düsseldorf Grand Départ. Seventy participants, bright sunshine and a landing in front of the NRW Forum...

We still get questioning and skeptical looks when we claim that Düsseldorf is expecting the biggest event the city has ever experienced in just over thirty days. It is of course clear that we put...

Sometimes we ask ourselves how much bike goes in and with the cap. How many bikes can we get? Answer: mostly quite a lot. A weekend with a shop, three trips and two days at...

A hundred days before the start of the Grand Départ, our hometown switches to sprint mode – numerous cycling-related activities form the countdown to the largest sporting event Düsseldorf has ever hosted. Whether it's the...

Dress warmly, we're going out. From November 6, 2016, every Sunday at 11:00 a.m. With the Renner, the Singlespeed or the Crosser. And with you, the friends of Chic Hats. And everyone who wants to...

We had fun, cursed, suffered a little, drove fast and slow, cheered loudly, got angry and were happy to receive big praise. A great weekend with cycling, old and new friends, lots of emotions and...

Anyone who happened to visit the “Rund um die Kö” cycle race in May in recent years was quite astonished: hundreds of barriers, athletes who daringly pedaled handlebars to handlebars out of the saddle in...

In flat, compact Düsseldorf, changing gears is more of a superfluous gadget than a necessity for most city trips, at least if you cycle regularly. We at the cap are big friends of bikes ourselves,...

Skateboards and bicycles free you, expand your range of motion, put you in a good mood and blow the wind in your hair. If you fall, the wallpaper is off, whether it's off the bike...

Next Sunday, July 17th, we invite you to a nice 100 kilometer tour in the Düsseldorf area. As in the last three years, the reason is Rapha's commendable Women's 100 campaign: trips are organized around...

“If you don't feel like riding, you watch a Rapha video and you immediately want to get on your bike. There's hardly a better motivation. Today we were all part of something like that, in...