I’m a big fan of retro, although this is probably more in line with ‘vintage’ and ‘classic’. Either way, members of the Tweed Cycling Club wish for a return to the honest virtues of lugged steel, dynamo lighting and canvas saddlebags. The Cycling Club has been featured in the Sunday Times Style magazine which writes: [...]

Singaporean design studio Angelus Novus has a great side project, Vanguard Designs, which specializes in one-of-a-kind bicycles as well as customization and restoration of classic bikes. Take a look at their lates work at http://www.vanguard-designs.com/home.html

I’ve been getting very inspired lately. I recently finished Mark Beaumont’s book “The Man Who Cycled The World” who set a record for cycling around the world. Then at the Cycle Show, I met Vin Cox who had recently broken that record. Then I read Ranulph Fiennes book “Mad Bad And Dangerous To Know” and [...]

One for the diary. Stumbled across Geoff Waugh and his photography the other day and now it turns out he will be exhibiting at Look Mum No Hands next month. I’ve quickly become a fan (not least because he seems to stolen my idea for a career) and I’m looking forward to heading over to [...]

Cycling is back in fashion. Whether it’s on a Boris bike or on a vintage cycle people are taking to the green way of travelling once more. For all those environmentally friendly fashionistas out there, the team from Fashshot have put together some outfits for cyclists to rock. Luke from Fashshot chats to presenter Chris about [...]

I’ve discovered Hill Climbing Competitions. Following on from my experience of the Oldest Continuing Bike Race in the world which is a hill climb sprint up Yorks Hill, I’ve come across the Cobble Wobble. I initially came across the posters below which I thought were beautifully designed. Held in September/October each year, the Cobble Wobble [...]

Classic and beautiful English frameworks. Apparently, in the days of pro cycling yore, frame-builders couldn’t put their marques on their race bicycles. A frame-builder eager to have their bicycles stand out from the crowd in the peleton would have to have a high performance race bicycle with distinctive and unique geometry. Hetchins accomplished this with [...]

Very cool project! Check out more on the Love Your Bike Portsmouth site. I know it’s a bit late for the event, about 6 months too late in fact, but look out for these next time around. Can’t say I don’t give you enough advance warning about stuff. . From Left Top: Main event logo [...]

Lovely project from Juri Zaech who is apparantly trying to get one of these made for real. Just imagine! Great work. . via behance ..

These are brilliant. Taken from bicycling.co.za which also includes some great comments and additions to the list (at the bottom of the article). 1) Realizing that the hill isn’t in the way; it is the way. 2) You go from one pair of shorts to a dedicated drawerful. 3) Being unable to sleep the night [...]

Ah, I like Team Time Trials. It’s back. Route looks quite interesting actually. And the etape stage looks to be the 109km Modane – Alpe D’huez. Nice! The 2011 Tour de France (July 2-24, 2011) will celebrate the first passage of the race through the Alps in 1911. From Road.cc: As expected the Vendée on [...]

Last winter I am proud to be able to stick up my hand and say I did cycle through it, through darkness, rain, wind and snow and I seemed to spend most of the winter tweaking things along the way so that by the end of the winter I was pretty much able to know [...]

I took part in my first Catford Cycling Club Hill Climb on Sunday. What a fantastic and awesome vibe! Here’s some background and pictures from the day. I recommend entering it, it’s not as bad as everyone makes it out to be…it’s an awesome buzz and the anticipation of waiting in line at the start [...]

Too good. http://www.robinmooreproductions.com/Performance.html

I love reading. I’m looking turn half of my garage into a bike workshop and the other half into a library. I’m actually about to invest in an Amazon Kindle so that I can stop putting a dent into the Amazon rainforest. See what I did there? I’m not sure either. Anyway…here of 5 of [...]