Regular followers of our Tiling Tales series will recognise Jürgen Knupe as an avid tiler who is renowned for his Panamericana Bikepacking Trip.
Out of the gate in 2026 Jürgen already has a story to tell completing his ‘Spanish cluster corridor’, resulting in him taking top spot in the MaxClusterSpan Leaderboard.
Uncover the story behind Jürgen’s adventures and get inspired for the season ahead with our Q&A. Continue reading
We are fascinated by the diverse goals of VeloViewer users, with every story revealing unique and inspiring dedication to personal achievement. Tiler Stephan van Hienen caught our eye when he casually dropped in a 2861 day cycling streak with his 2025 yearly infographic on Instagram.
This enviable streak of consecutive riding days deserves to be showcased, and at the time of writing Stephan was well on his way to the 3000 milestone, yes read it again, that’s eight years!!
We dug a little deeper with Stephan to find out more about this impressive feat, which we’re sure will motivate others along the way. Continue reading
VV Wrapped season has unearthed some phenomenal stories of rider achievements. One which we were keen to do a deep dive on was Robert Williams who chased 100 imperial centuries and hit 107 in 2025. This amazing achievement gives him an Eddington score of 100+ which is spectacular. Not only this, the icing on the cake for Robert is hitting 524,076 metres elevation for the year.
For VV fanatics who are familiar with the Eddington number you will know how impressive this is, for those who are not familiar with the term let’s give a quick recap before we share Robert’s story (for the full Eddington break down click here):
We have had our eye on the tiling adventures of Dutch rider Elmar Hogenboom as he sits in a very impressive 1st place in the Explorer Max Cluster Span leaderboard. It is thanks to Elmar this VeloViewer leaderboard was created after his request to Ben.
To achieve this amazing feat Elmar developed a Max Cluster spanning from Germany’s North Baltic coast down to Alicante (half way down Spain’s East Coast).
We checked in with Elmar to find out about his impressive position, how he hit his goals, and the challenges along the way.
For our final VeloViewer Wrapped story we get the inside scoop on Dutch tiler Yorick Dix’s infographic. Renowned for his explorer corridor in 2024 to the Mediterranean from his home in the Netherlands, in 2025 he travelled equally impressive distances and grew his Cluster by almost 2,800 tiles.
Take inspiration from Yorick’s year of riding with his Q&A which highlights his motivation to ride with no focus on speed but more the pure enjoyment of adventuring. Continue reading
Scottish rider Stuart Dick is a keen VeloViewer user and has kept us regularly updated with his infographic progress throughout the year as he chased his target of 365 active days.
We had a quick fire Q&A with Stuart to find out how he has stayed focus this year on the bike and tell us the story behind his VV Wrapped infographic. Continue reading
One year after Jürgen Knupe’s phenomenal Panamericana Bikepacking trip we were keen to catch up with him to see how his VeloViewer infographic, and year wrapped, landed for 2025.
Jürgen tells us the story behind his impressive 30,000km year of riding, despite a hip replacement, his focus of increasing his MaxSquare, and shares the inspiration he gets from the tiling community in our VV Wrapped Q&A looking at the stats from his VeloViewer Infographic. Continue reading
Simon Warren of 100 Climbs notoriety reveals how he recently cracked his 50×50 Max Square and what is so addictive about VeloViewer tile hunting.
Learn about Simon’s winter tiling adventures: motivation, ticking off tiles, why he’s addicted, and the mighty fuelling power of Christmas cake. Continue reading
The tiling community never fails to impress us, and for this tiling Q&A we go inside the mind of one of the original VeloViewer tilers. Torsten Frank has a rare four digit Strava user number which is indicative of his time on the platform, and he was quick to get on board with VeloViewer, exploring its functionality to maximise his riding experience.
Torsten has a passion for ultra distance racing and regularly blogs his adventures, both on his travels and in his homeland of Germany.
After his Instagram posts caught our attention we got in touch with him to uncover more about his interest in tiling. Continue reading
With over half of 2025 completed, VeloViewer infographics are starting to look pretty as they tell a story of riders adventures for the year to-date. Our end of year VV Wrapped is renowned for being shared in the new year and is a visual way to depict the year of training.
For some, the infographic data is a closely guarded secret which will not be revealed until the close of 2025, but we have spotted a few out in the wild and so have been checking in with riders on their progress.
Cycling enthusiast and YouTuber Scottish rider Stuart Dick shared his Infographic with us, and we wanted to see how his year was progressing, and what his motivations were to get out and ride. Continue reading