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Some call it a sponsor meeting and we call it...well...actually also a sponsor meeting. Only that it was rather an evening among friends, really good friends! For example, Dirk Glowka, CEO of CoWerk/Cookwerk, who has been one of our main sponsors since last year, is such a good friend and even got on his bike. And...
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So, dear ones, what again looks like a meeting of old, white men with a minute taker, was in reality a very entertaining exchange with important decision makers from Annaberg-Buchholz. In the consultation room of the mayor. Also present: Mayor Thomas Proksch. Well, and what shall we say? Somehow the idea of the European Peace Ride is quite a door-opener. Alas...
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The Fichtelberg Cycling Marathon, a cycling marathon known beyond the borders of the country without time measurement, which leads cyclists and cyclists on 11.06.2023 from the Karl Marx Monument in Chemnitz to the Fichtelberg to Oberwiesenthal. About 90 kilometers are covered with 1900 meters of altitude in the saddle. But what exactly does the FRM have in common with the International Peace Tour? Quite apart from sporting fairness, sufficient seat meat...
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Kind of, but kind of not... Anyway, yesterday evening we presented the EPR to Minister of State Armin Schuster with Minister of State Katja Meier. Because in his office as Saxon Minister of Sport, he is also Saxon Minister of the Interior... Or the other way around... 😉 And what can we say, it was an appointment at eye level. Open, cordial, not at all ministerial....
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Do they drive or don't they drive? Of course they are!!! And why? Because they can and above all they want to. For the first time last Saturday to determine the performance of our women's initiative "Females4Peace-Ride", four women live in Mittelbach and three online, turned a few laps on the roller. For this purpose, the counseling stamp in the...
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At the end of the year we have some good news. Kind of like "Kai out of the box"... 😉So, we have agreed with the organizers of the European Capital of Culture 2024 Bad Ischl/ @salzkammergut.2024 on a cooperation on various cycling topics in the two Capital of Culture regions. Sports culture and such, you know. For example, 10 - 12 participants:inside from the Salzkammergut ride at the EPR 2023 with...
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Marshal Cezary Przybylski and Lord Mayor Sven Schulze also patrons Minister Katja Meier receives peace riders on arrival in Chemnitz on 4 September 2022 Chemnitz, 06 July 2022 - The second edition of the European Peace Ride now has prominent support. The Saxon State Minister of Justice and for Democracy, Europe and Equality Katja Meier is taking over the patronage for...
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For those of us who want to revive the Peace Tour with a new look and a different direction, it is nevertheless incredibly important to honour the old heroes. The race had the format of the "Tour de France" back then and the sporting achievements were accordingly. These memories are lovingly preserved in the cycling museum "Course de la Paix" by the crazy Horst...
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Last weekend was the day. A Fit4Bike delegation of Katja, Hagen, Steffen and Kai travelled to the city of Wroclaw, itself the Capital of Culture in 2016. The aim was to start the first steps in the project work and technical implementation of the EPR 2022 on the Polish side. The meeting was prepared by our two new employees Krzysztof and Agnieszka. At...
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What a week in the spirit of the EPR 2022. On Tuesday, 8 February, we met with Bernd Birkigt, the mayor of Oelsnitz and the chairman of the Friends of the European Cultural Region Chemnitz 2025 e.V., a person who was already very active in the ECOC2025 application phase, who is a good multiplier for the involvement of the Chemnitz region and...
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