Thinking outside the box

Rottweil is a small town in Germany’s Black Forest with several claims to fame. You can guess the first, not least because there are sculptures of handsome but rather intimidating dogs around the plac

Pearson can lay claim to being the oldest cycling brand in the world, having been founded as a bike shop in 1860. And it still is a bike shop, in a sense. That part of the business has been renamed Fo

Who, a decade ago, could have imagined that the G-Wagen would be reborn as a silent, battery powered statement of the future? Who, back then, would also have wagered a pint on the idea of zero alcohol

Ditch the snow for shred at BikePark Wales, a ski-inspired resort in the Welsh mountains that might just be Britain’s best-kept MTB secret

1939 Alvis 12/70 Special, 1958 Austin-Healey Sprite, 1972 Porsche 911T Berthold Dörrich WHEN MY BRITISH colleagues approached me as the publisher of Octane’s German edition to contribute to this secti

Poor Baka. She’s a mess. Her naked carbon fibre panels are yellowed and dulled from testing different lacquer finishes. Jagged chunks are missing from her butterfly doors. Everywhere the light touches