FishThang

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• Effective gadgets for side visibility?

  in General • 11 years, 11 months

  

  seen these?? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5pbpGwgmcw
  
  to me they look really cool, but i guess at that price they are just for the 1%ers...

• Frankfurt. Woss it like?

  in Cycle Touring and Bikepacking • 12 years

  

  I can see why, but as it is, it was just pretty much slagging off with not much backing that up and although I don´t feel totally at home here, somehow I feel I had to defend the place....

  also the statement that foreigners are not welcome in clubs leaves avery bitter tastes afterwards, especially when I have never heard of such a thing and maybe of course being german after all, but I don´t wanna start a new discussion alltogether...

• Frankfurt. Woss it like?

  in Cycle Touring and Bikepacking • 12 years

  

  I am a courier in Frankfurt for three years straight now.
  Have to disagree with BlueQuinn vehemently though:
  Never heard of anyone not getting into a club/ bar just because of not speaking the language or lookoing local and most of my friends or the people if live with here are foreign. Not one good beer in the whole town?
  Ok, this is not bavaria, but thats obviously a ridiculous statement.

  He´s right about the river though and there are quite some nice parks with a nice atmosphere, of course especially during summertime.
  What´s also correct is that it´s quite pricey, not only compared to Leipzig.
  The city does have an alternative scene, but it´s not that easy to find. Many people agree, that it´s not really a city that opens up easily for you. One does have to put quite some effort to find spots and people to be comfortable around.

  It´s not only full of banks and insurance companies but there´s quite a lot of advertisement-, design- and also film companies, which might be interesting for you, considering your field of study, I guess.
  Lots of museums and theatre as well.

  On the cycling front: I´d say that it is quite bicycle friendly, since the city itself is rather small and you get anywhere within 20min, so basically no need to take the train ever...

  If you´d be riding fixed, make sure to attach a rear brake to you bike anyway though, otherwise the police is likely to snatch away your ride altogether!

  hope I could be of some help,
  cheers, benZ