10,700 kilometers, seven punctures and two accidents lie behind Lennart Schaefer. But when the 27-year-old from Hamburg arrives at the Frankfurt Book Fair on his cargo bike, his valuable cargo is undamaged: eight books. He cycled with them for seven months from the Leipzig Book Fair to the Frankfurt Book Fair - with detours through all 16 German states, where he stopped off at bookshops and schools.
"I've always loved reading and I've always loved cycling," says Schaefer when asked how the idea for his "literary bike tour" came about.