Toni's Batmobile,
Toni is since many years one of the most ambitious Brevet riders in Berlin. She and her husband Daniel are literally completely sport nuts and go riding long distance bike rides or running marathons literally every other weekend. So far they have covered two times Paris-Brest-Paris, Northcape 4000, London-Edinburgh-London 2022 and they are just riding now this years edition LEL 2025. For this event we teamed up last year and we started to exchange our ideas about making a perfect long distance brevet bike just for her. And here it is the "Liliac", which means Bat in Romanian language and is a little hint to Toni's goth style youth back when we she was a teenager. It is also the perfect name matching this amazing paintjob which our crazy vampire painter man Rob aka Velociao created. Toni wanted to have an impressionistic paint job which should remember of an sunset / sunrise when you roll through the night on a long distance brevet ride. Robert did a fantastic job and he absolutely nailed it, 10 out of 10 points for this one. Tine of Gramm Tourpacking had still some last meters of that crazy super light black Challenge Ultra cuben fiber material which was the perfect match to the paint, looking almost like the skin of a bats wing. If count Dracula had to have made a new cape from modern high tech material, this would have been his first choice for sure! The bike is equipped with just the finest parts available, such as Campagnolo Ekar 13sp shifters, cockpit and seatpost all by Deda, Son Hub dynamo lighting, superfast Rene Herse tires on Velocity rims, DT Swiss hub, Veloduo carbon fenders with Asssaver flaps for keeping her feet dry even in the rainiest Scottish highlands. I hope you'll like the bike and it will always be your best companion for many Happy-Brevet-Vampire-Flights through the night! ;)
Photography: Florian Haeussler / FERN Bicycles.