China Talk – a chat with Gao Shusan, co-founder of WKUP URBAN CYCLING, about cycling (Part I)

Recently, I coincidentaly met an old friend at the Berliner Fahrradschau, a bicycle lifestyle show. As a co-founder of a startup called WKUP URBAN CYCLING he is busy designing minimalist bicycles. Sometimes things happen that are simply crazy! The other day some friends dragged me to the Berlin Bicycle Week (externer link), the world’s largest bicycle lifestyle show. Just like at a music festival, hip young people walked through the halls of STATION Berlin at Gleisdreieck Park, to check out what’s […]

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China Talk – a chat with Gao Shusan, co-founder of WKUP URBAN CYCLING, about cycling (Part II)

Continuation of an interview with Gao Shusan at the Berliner Fahrradschau, a bicycle lifestyle show. As a co-founder of a startup called WKUP URBAN CYCLING he is busy designing minimalist bicycles. When can we buy your bicycles here in Germany? Since the online sale for Europeans would cause excessive costs due to high shipping costs, we are currently on the look-out for a local retailer. That’s also a reason why we are here at this fair. I really hope that we […]

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China Talk – a chat with Gao Shusan, co-founder of WKUP URBAN CYCLING, about cycling (Part III)

Continuation of an interview with Gao Shusan at the Berliner Fahrradschau, a bicycle lifestyle show. As a co-founder of a startup called WKUP URBAN CYCLING he is busy designing minimalist bicycles. Especially in Berlin more and more people decide themselves against owning a car at all and just cycle instead. There are real movements like the “Critical Mass”, a protest on wheels for a more bicycle friendly city. Although we are still far away from bicycle meccas like Copenhagen, it still […]

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