Category: STYLE

  • The Urban Velodrome

    The Urban Velodrome

    Street track will never make sense. It’s futile to attest that they have any suitability to an urban environment. But who really comes close to caring about that? When riding a bicycle looks as fun as the MASH crew make it out to be, there’s nothing more important. Tendons, stopping distance and descending speed are…

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  • Milano Fixed Style

    Milano Fixed Style

    Besides producing insane racing, high speeds, flesh-eating crashes and busted knees, the Red Hook Criterium series also provides broad a platform for bicycle artisans to get a little crazy with the creativity on a fixed-gear canvas. Specialized have been particularly active in encouraging their in-house designers to go to town with unfettered air brushes and vivid imaginations to…

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  • Music To The Ears

    Music To The Ears

    This uniquely beautiful piece of Danish design comes from Sogreni Bicycles in Copenhagen. Sogreni was founded in 1981 and specialises in custom bicycles and accessories. The flat brass disc not only pleases the eye in the most ornate way, but plays a crisp, clear note when struck, and tinkles gently over rough roads and kerbs otherwise. More than…

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  • Positive Vibrations At Good Rotations

    Positive Vibrations At Good Rotations

    “We hear the term ‘life changing’ often”. (Babu Blatt on customers who changed their mindset.) You expect to hear phrases like “tightening margins” and “limited import supply” from a normal bike shop and not ones such as “promoting cycling advocacy” and “council cooperation” but Matt Quirk and Babu Blatt are not normal bike shop owners…

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  • The Most Badass Balance Bike Ever

    The Most Badass Balance Bike Ever

    Some kids got it so good. If your old man is a master framebuilder especially. Portus bikes in Germany whipped up the ultimate balance bike from Reynolds 725 tubing and then topped it off with no less than Tune hubs, headset and stem plus carbon bars, seatpost and saddle. This thing is probably worth more than…

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  • Patent Leather Magic

    Patent Leather Magic

    Joe Parkin may not be a household name, even in cycling circles, but he’s done a hell of a lot as both a rider and an author. Heck, he was even Editor of the best mtb magazine in the world, Bike, and then its road spinoff Paved, for a couple of years. His books A…

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  • Cold Lonely And Festive

    Cold Lonely And Festive

    Is there a more polarising cycling company than Rapha? Never has a manufacturer of clothing for riding bikes in been so lambasted, mainly for their high prices, but also for the moody videos they produce which are seen by some as elitist, too hip or just plain wanky. Personally I love their gear, even if I…

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  • Bernard Kerr’s London

    Bernard Kerr’s London

    Something tells me this may not be the most accurate depiction of London living. Instead of the tribulations of central city rent and murderous road infrastructure, Bernard Kerr sticks to the Surrey Hills’ trails, except when he’s in the air. It’s not hard to see why Kerr took the top honours at this years Red…

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