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...

In the summer of 2014, when we had the Cologne band Muskat as guests at the Schicken Mütze, who were touring NRW with a reduced line-up with a cargo bike and a classic racer, we...

When we make cinema in the cap, it's quite an improvised affair. But last Friday we all experienced that exactly that can also have charm. RAD RACE, Hardbrakers & Marvin Beranek at movie night. The...

“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...

The Hamburg Hardbrakers crew and the Münster posse from Rad Race shouldered two films and are visiting us in their hats. We roll down the screen, put the beer cold and look forward to a...

Our guests from the Mobile Cycle Club had a lot of fun on their first trip to Düsseldorf in May last year: the evening before the trip was wet and happy, the coffee in the...

Last year we presented the cap and the classic ride in the halls at the Gleisdreieck with our own stand together with the Viennese colleagues from In Velo Veritas and the Selberbruzzlern. A nice experience,...

In the last few weeks, there have been increasing inquiries as to whether we will again be offering a cozy weekly racing bike feel-good round like our starter package trips last year. A short tour,...

There are days that are a single test. You test yourself, your willingness and will, your buttocks, the new helmet, the new jacket and also the test saddle. As you know, that's what today was...

Goodbye winter. It was nice with you, but we won't shed any tears for you this time either, but fall head over heels in love with spring again. Because there is no better time to...

In 1882, the 36-year-old Englishman John Boultbee Brooks filed the first patent for a leather bicycle saddle - an important innovation that significantly increased comfort compared to the steel or wooden saddles that were common...

“How does it start in Düsseldorf? The Tour de France? Why?" For us, who share our excitement, it is amazing when friends and acquaintances react in disbelief and look at us questioningly because they think...

It's hard to believe that only a year has passed since the fun New Year's Eve 2014/2015 party in the cap, so much has happened in the last year. We are now using the last...