1971: a good Italian year for Gosta Pettersson! ... Love is this beautiful Ferretti blue from the Italian team's 1970 De Rosa replica team bike. This is the color I'll try to match for my upcoming Marinoni restoration ... An amazing specimen of a simpler racing bicycle with a setup now refer to as ... retro: Columbus steel frame, Campagnolo Nuovo Record gruppo, 3ttt bar/stem, Maillard Dural 6-speed freewheel, Regina Record Chain, Unicanitor saddle, & Mavic Monthlery Route tubular rims ...
Less than one month up the Hungarian Track Cycling Cup!!!We had the last training competition in Millenáris (Milli) Velodrome last saturday! The race getting hard … I’m still not in form, but I try after! Photos: HBalage ...
Wilfred Ketelaar has been documenting the progress of work on the route between his home in a village west of Groningen and the city itself ... The first photo shows the previous situation. By the standards of many countries this would be a very good cycling facility. It's separated from the road, and fairly wide. However, it doesn't meet current Dutch guidelines. According to the provincial website this cycle path is narrow and too close to the road ... The first step was to start to prepare
With "Bike Month" having long since dropped back to the "autobus" of memory, it's been quite some time since a mainstream newspaper has published an article about "cycle chic." This is of course a matter of some concern, since consuming this sort of easily-excreted intellectual roughage is essential for maintaining mental regularity ... Fortunately, the Wall Street Journal has come to the rescue with a great big bowl of "bike culture" bran flakes: ... Interestingly, though, the headline
While Andy Schleck and Alberto Contador have emerged as the two riders most likely stand atop the podium in Paris clad in the coveted jaundiced chemise, this year's Tour de France has proven to be a difficult one for the over-30 set ... First, Christian Vande Velde had his customary first-week crash and subsequent abandon (or "crabandon;"); next, Lance Armstrong had the most crash-tastic Tour stage of his career; then, yesterday on the Col de la Madeleine, Cadel Evans lost his yellow jersey as
Having just returned from abroad, many important matters were on the agenda ... Naturally, one of them was a trip to Harris Cyclery. The shop is 9 miles from our place and the temperature was over 100F, but nothing could deter me from going on a ride after sitting still in a airplane for hours ... Good thing the Co-Habitant had those two bottles on his bike, because the heat and humidity were brutal. In Vienna I had gotten used to taking many short trips throughout the day and almost forgot that
So, this morning I'm cruising along, whistling a happy tune, noticing the birds along the trail, when on my left a bike rider whips around me like a sprinter going for the gold in the Olympic Velodrome. As he passes, he gives me a look back, not unlike the look Lance gave Jan Ullrich in the '01 Tour. More → ... Related posts: All Mixed Up 2162 Miles to Chicago Capitol Corridor Anatomy of a Multi-Modal Commute The Great NYC Commuter Race ...
by Bill StricklandOn a Sunday morning in May I pedaled out of the velodrome parking lot with the Derby. A respectable crosswind slapped at us from the right, but it had been there all year and by now we didn’t pay it too much attention except to note that once we finished the roll-out —the [ ... ] ...