Name: Jule
Location: Rostock
Discipline: offroad / tracklocross / cyclocross / messenger
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What does riding mean to you?
Riding the bike means to have absolute freedom. Independence plays a big role in my life, I guess that’s the reason why I am drawn to the bicycle. The sport gives me the aspect of being physically active and reaching new goals and limits as well as it puts me into a meditative state which helps me being creative during my day to day job.
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As an artist you sometimes need the distance and space to “Get bored” in order to create new ideas and see things from a different perspective.
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What is your favourite set up?
My favourite set-up is probably my Boltcutter, which is a super light carbon gravel bike, together with my bikepacking gear. That way, I have the freedom to cycle long distances and can pitch a tent in the evening wherever I am.
I never really ride on roads anymore, because I need to be close to nature, so over the period of time I went off-road more and more and never regret a trip through the forest.
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On the other hand I like my job as a messenger and cruise around the city on the Omnium bike. The city streets are a big playground for me and I do like my little shortcuts through the park for the off-road fun in between.
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When I am not on the Omnium bike, I ride my tracklocross bike, which is so fun. It’s a fixie with wide tyres and a riser bar. I use it in the city but also ride in the forest with it. I like all my bikes.
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Do you think the environment is male dominated? If yes what are your
thoughts about it?
Yes, it’s male dominated. It is changing right now though. I see a lot of womxn out there, riding, talking about it, creating spaces. And that’s what it comes down to. Womxn need other womxn as a role model. It works the same for me. I recently started mountain biking and I follow a bunch of womxn on instagram to learn from them and see how they got into the sport. I am not really interested in how men do it.
We need to encourage womxn to ride their bikes.
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Any riding plans for the future?
Since Corona kind of changed all of my plans, I started to enjoy the region I live in more and more. I am living by the coast, so I did ride all of the off road routes along there. I recently discovered mountain biking and dirt jump riding. We have a park here in Rostock, which I will go more often now to practise.
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I guess I found my freedom in a smaller scale around my city. I can’t imagine the life next year with or “after” corona, but my plan is to ride more in east and south Europe and concentrate on mountain biking.
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