If you can’t cycle outside in winter but want to maintain your fitness, you can get on the exercise bike. The devices are now popular in the cycling scene. Our author tested three models.
“Even the greatest pain contains a certain form of pleasure,” said the Frenchman Guillaume Martin in an interview with the SZ three years ago. Martin is a professional cyclist, studied philosopher and novelist. The man who finished tenth in the last Tour de France was particularly fond of Nietzsche’s writings. The mountain rider applies, among other things, Nietzsche’s ideas about “eternal return” to the everyday life of cyclists: Anyone who rides up a mountain with all their might usually thinks at the moment of exertion that the climb should be over as quickly as possible, preferably immediately. Once you get to the top, however, you wish everything would start again quickly. “It’s a form of addiction, almost a drug,” says Martin.