The Grain – Das große Ultra Distance Abenteuer

Abenteuer zu planen, ist eine anspruchsvolle Kunst, schließlich liegt es in der Natur des Abenteuers, Planungen zu ignorieren. Und doch kann man ein Gerüst bauen, das einen Hauch von Hilfestellung bietet und so ein Selbstversorger*innen-Event...

Team Dixsept Charity Ride 2026 - Doing Good Together

If more than €2000 are raised for Stay Düsseldorf through cycling, then probably everyone involved did a great job. In any case, we are delighted to be part of this great campaign for the fourth...

The Grain – The great adventure calls and the cap comes along.

In a few weeks, together with Pierre Charles from scops.cc, we will embark on a very special adventure that presents us with some new organizational challenges. We are humble, curious, excited, and aware that we...

Cyclingworld 2026 – The Sky Is The Limit

Anyone who still doubts the importance of cycling in society could quickly get up to speed with a visit to Areal Böhler. As always, we were right in the thick of it and, given the...

Cyclingworld 2026 – Welcome to Europe's Cycling Capital

Originally, I wanted to write an announcement for Cyclingworld 2026, where Düsseldorf is the bicycle capital of Europe and the trade fair has its perfect and logical home here. But to conceptualize the entire scenario...

    Working Class Heroes. Visiting Brooks in Birmingham with Schicke Mütze.

    If you search for "Brooks England factory" on Google today, you get the basics directly on your screen via AI: around 22 employees produce approximately 100,000 leather saddles annually at the main factory in Smethwick...

      With the cap in Belgium - Velofollies 2026

      Cycling is a huge passion in Belgium, so it's hardly surprising that the second-largest cycling trade fair in Europe, according to Wikipedia, takes place in Kortrijk, a city of 80,000 inhabitants. We in Düsseldorf can...

      Greetings from the hat

      It's bitterly cold outside, so I'm saving the last of the year's energy for activities other than driving 500 kilometers in the days between Christmas and New Year's. For example, a task I enjoy completing...

      The hat is taking a Christmas break.

      Dear friends of the hat, There's still plenty to do behind the scenes, but the shop and workshop will remain closed for a few days. We're taking a short break from December 24th to January...

      Gravel with Protect Our Winters and Café Du Cycliste

      Even though the sun didn't venture out until the afternoon and the morning was quite chilly, our start to the gravel season with a ride as part of PROTECT OUR WINTERS' Mobility Month was a...

      The "Protect Our Winters" - Beanies - Gravel - Ride

      A gravel ride celebrating Protect Our Winters' Mobility Month. Presented by Café Du Cycliste. We look forward to inviting you to a gravel ride together with the German chapter of the American climate protection organization...

      It's Block Party Time at the Prachtboulevard - Around the Kö 2025

      Sunday on the Kö has been a regular part of our annual schedule since the Race am Rhein 2016. We brought a lot of things with us again this year, from our hats, socks, and...

      Königsallez 2025 – Around the Kö is in da House

      Our summer of events at the Mütze is entering the next round. We'll once again be guests both in front of and behind the scenes at Düsseldorf's biggest cycling spectacle since the Grand Départ. The...

        265 kilometers? Totally crazy. – A Sunday in long-distance mode

        The fit guys on the side of Bismarck Street were curious about our somewhat battered group that evening, wondering where we were from. Holland was their first guess. But the length of our journey was...

        Crossing Borders again: Crossing Borders XL Edition

        After the Crossing Borders debut in March was sold out within 12 hours and we all had so much fun on the trip to Maastricht, a repeat was at the top of our agenda. The...