Telekom pulled its sponsorship and Vino put together some Kazakh sponsors and turned Telekom into Astana.

All Germans love Hasselhoff. Another stupid recurring theme.

Mock the Hoff all you want, but he is one pretty man.

Vino returns as the attacking tornado. Gerdemann returns as Hilary Swank.

The balloon animal thing is a reference to Vince Vaughan in Wedding Crashers. Lousy movie, but there is a balloon bicycle.

And Levi returns in another short cheap shot.

schmalz comment

Slow news week so we made fun of Kloden’s wedding. Winter is such a dead zone for cycling! We are already starting to run some gags in the ground here – note to Levi.