May, 2007

May 29th, 2007

Skull and Crossbikes - Le Petit Enfer Du Nord

I might have found a venue. The gravel surface is reminiscent of the high mountain passes of the grand tours of the 50s. Bring your best St Raphael jersey.
Inappropriate Tyres
Date and logistics being sorted.

May 27th, 2007

Crapha

From secretsofthepeloton.com

May 25th, 2007

Pick a number, any number

Caution - Drug Use Ahead
With all the drug confessions rampant at the moment it’s probably as good a way of telling who should have won a race in the ’90s as any other.
“My yellow jersey is in box at home, you can come and collect it,” said Riis of his [1996] Tour performance.
via Cycling News
So […]

May 24th, 2007

SSWC v CO2

At first it may seem parochial of me to only attend the SSWC when it lands somewhere here in the UK.
But what is your carbon footprint to travel to what, at the end of the day, is only a bike race?

May 24th, 2007

Chapeau

Photo © & courtesy singlespeedwidow
Well done dRj0n in the 24 hour race at Finale Ligure. No results available yet.

May 21st, 2007

The ettiquette of arm warmers

After a scorching hot fifty-miler out into roadie training territory yesterday (a ride round one of the favourite loops of pretty much all the local racing clubs and the more-distant CTC branches) I was wondering about the ettiquette of arm-warmers.
Or more precisely, when can you dispense with them? And the knee warmers and overshoes. The […]

May 18th, 2007

Cookies and Cream

Proving that Dave Yates can build a bike to match any “more singlespeedy than you” Oregon mountain shed dweller we present this beauty.
Cookies and CreamPhoto © & courtesy Philip Diprose
853, fillet brazed, old school skills with new school geometry.
With that deep brown paintjob it looks good enough to eat.

May 15th, 2007

Hunter

Rick bending tubes
Rick Hunter has finally got his website active so that us on this side of the Atlantic can admire, and purchase, his wares. I’d love to be able to justify/afford one of his cyclo-cross frames.

May 10th, 2007

Summer’s Here

Chasing The Sun
First off, I’d like to apologise for the resumption of normal service by the British weather. Tempted by the unseasonably long and dry spell I replaced the IRC Mud Mads that grace the Spot with some semi-slicks. The weather didn’t even have the grace to wait until I’d finished before pouring scorn upon […]

May 4th, 2007

Red Brakes Stop You Faster


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