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The time-honored locksmith's shop of the Lauffenmühle, is simply called the Old Locksmith 's Shop. Smoke and soot have disappeared, but the smell of metal, oil and fire is still in the walls and floor.
On the SPEZI weekend on April 26 and 27, 2025, exciting lectures, travel reports and panel discussions will take place here.
Program 2024
Saturday 11:00 a.m.
Sunday 4:00 p.m.
Andreas Eller starts with his dog Lotte on a two-wheeled cargo bike from Douze Cycles at the source of the Danube. In Vienna, Andreas switches to a wooden electric cargo bike from Rethink Bikes. The journey continues through Hungary to Belgrade in Serbia. The Danube flows around 2,850 kilometers from its source to its mouth through the extensive Danube Delta into the Black Sea. Andreas experiences 7 of the 10 Danube countries and has a lot to tell.
Andreas Eller
Saturday 12:30 pm
Like 1.7 million other visitors, Dirk Prüter set off to travel around Iceland in the summer of 2016. Unlike most people who come, he takes eight weeks, travels on three wheels and under his own steam and can say at the end: it wasn't just the sights that inspired him, it was above all the journey there.
Dirk Prüter
Saturday 13:30
Velopreneur Gunnar Fehlau lived and worked as a digital nomad for a year, riding over 12,000 kilometers through Germany on his e-cargo bike and sleeping outdoors for more than 220 nights. The book about this unique tour will celebrate its premiere at SPEZI 2024: the first copies, hot off the press, will arrive at the fair by express and will be available for browsing and dedications. Book presentation with reading/lecture powered by SCHWALBE
Gunnar Fehlau
Saturday 14:30
Sunday 11:00
Karel Triska's family riding on recumbent bikes, followed the Danube river from its source to the Black Sea and back through Bulgaria, Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina and up the Croatian coast back home. A journey of more than six thousand kilometers will take you through well-known and lesser-known places and show you the hospitality of the local residents.
Triska Karel
Saturday 16:00
For over 20 years, students have been building recumbent bikes every year as part of the FOSvelo project, taking them on a journey to the sea and to themselves.
Matthias Jeker
Saturday 17:00
"Records are there to be broken," said Mark Spitz. With the support of HPV Deutschlands e. V., riders are constantly trying to set new records. A film about this celebrates its premiere at the SPEZI!
Sunday 12:30
"The recumbent tour starts in my hometown Zell am Harmersbach in the Black Forest, near Strasbourg, with the destination of the IHPV World Championships at Deal, as well as the cosmopolitan city of London. In two months with over 2000km of adventure in summer 2018, the most beautiful digital images and video clips from the following countries will be presented:
Germany, France, Luxembourg, Belgium, England and Holland!
André Fischer
Sunday 14:30
Get something moving! Possible applications, success stories and potential of cargo bikes: in this presentation, you will learn about the diverse areas of application of cargo bikes based on best practice examples.
Rick Creemers
Wheeled carriage
We still have places available for talks, presentations and panel discussions at SPEZI 2025. If you would like to report on exciting adventures, give insights into your technical achievements or even moderate a panel discussion on the topic of bicycle mobility, then apply now for the lecture program of the next SPEZI.
Apply for a presentation here