Christian Illing

Christian worked as a photographer for 15 years, most recently at the Deutsches Museum, where he met Elias. Building his first bicycle in Elias’s basement got him hooked. In his mid-thirties, he started a second apprenticeship, this time as a bicycle mechanic.

When the premises on Schyrenstraße became available, the two decided to run a workshop together. Christian especially values meeting people in the shop: repairing their bicycles, helping them ride safely and treating everyone as an equal.