20 October 2009
Damian Breach Photography
1Chances are if you have ever picked up a MTB magazine, or for that matter even seen one on the shelf of a newsagency you have seen Damian Breach’s work
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14 October 2009
It’s time for a road bike
11I never thought I would become a road cyclist but living in the city it’s the most accessible form of the sport. I finally sold my old urban street bike today to add to the kitty for the new bike. Now it is decision time. Ultimately I would like a steel or titanium bike but I don’t have the money to drop on an Independent Fabrication Crown Jewel or a Litespeed. Carbon would be nice but I still don’t like the idea of it and the chances of it cracking (but that’s a myth right). So I am set at the moment of getting a modern aluminum racing bike.
12 October 2009
London to Paris
0London to Paris - 10 riders from all over the globe ride from London to Paris to meet up with Lance Armstrong at the end of the Tour De France 2009.
11 October 2009
Their Off Season = Cyclocross Dreams
1As the warmth approaches (yes - just get on with it!) our northern friends move into their off season and that means cyclocross. It’s unfortunate that we don’t really have a large cyclocross scene in OZ, but that’s not too much of an obstacle with the interweb thing. A combination of road(like) frames with super lightweight parts, 700c x 30+ knobby tires, thrown around on road, grass and mud, then carried or bunny hopped (for the super skilled) over man made vegetable patch style edging. Even better still are the crowds that seem to have the enthusiasm of a fixed gear alley cat event. In all honestly what more could you ask for?
Combine all of this with a spectator holding a red camera, a birger lens adaptor with Canon EOS lens attached ... pfft heaven appears before your eyes (nice work jesse)
01 October 2009
Surly have a new website
0Surly Bikes have just launched a brand spankin’ new site. It’s a whole lot easier to navigate than the old beast of a site they had but there doesn’t appear to be any new bikes or colours yet but I could be wrong. All the specs. on frames and complete bikes are a lot easier to get to now, go check it out: surlybikes.com
(for the web nerds the site is built with Expression Engine)
30 September 2009
Canyon Bikes
0Canyon Bikes continue to impress me with their attention to detail. You can’t help but think that a company that is so meticulous with the presentation of their brand that the quality of their bike building must be of an even higher standard. Check out their site and product range here. Damn they have one of the hottest bike brand logos too!
29 September 2009
GT Pulse 2010 - is this for real?
0I saw this post over at T-White-Bikes for a reissue of the classic GT Pulse. They say it’s a comeback of the classic GT track bike for 2009. The bike photographed is a prototype for the New Zealand region. The frame is alloy with the same dropouts as the Gutterball and has a carbon fork. The frame has a modern look but I wish they could have reissued the classic GT Pulse frame. I couldn’t find any more information on this frame. Was it previewed at Interbike?
24 September 2009
Cinelli Mash Colour Option 2010
2For all the hipsters out there Cinelli have introduced an another colour for the Mash frame – green. The current colour option will still be available too.
23 September 2009
Speedbicycles Virtual Museum
0You can now stop work for today, here’s an amazing collection of bicycles to look at for the rest of the day www.speedbicycles.ch.
Here’s the blurb and some of the bikes, there are a LOT more to be seen on the site.
“In early 1980s Stefan Schaefter started in collecting and restoring vintage bicycles. Over the years this collection specialized into lightweight bicycles and got selected and refined.The brand “Speedbicycles” was first time used in early 1990s. In 2003 Speedbicycles Gmbh (Ltd liab. Co) (SARL) was founded. Today Speedbicycles offers purchase, sale, repair, restoration and advice of vintage lightweight bicycles. It is the target of Speedbicycles keeping the bikes as authentic as possible. For to preserve the flair of the bikes repainting, rechroming, etc. is avoided wherever applicable.”
22 September 2009
Scott 2010 Catalogue
2Scott has released their 2010 bikes on their site and the catalogue is available on Issuu. Here’s a couple of my favourites. I’m loving the white tyres, not sure how long they would stay white though. This is the first year I have looked at more road bikes than mountain bikes, does that mean I am getting old?