Category: STYLE

  • TPC Museum Series: Hit The Road Mack

    TPC Museum Series: Hit The Road Mack

    Delving deep into the back catalogue of The Pro’s Closet’s Museum Series is always a fascinating history lesson. Unlike the mountain bikes from yesteryear, road bikes haven’t changed radically in their design… or have they? Take a look at Alan McCormack’s Schwinn Paramount from the late 80s and you’ll realise that while some things remain…

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  • Sunday Stones

    Sunday Stones

    Imagine one of the world’s biggest bands trying to hold a free concert in a major city with half a million people in attendance today. We will never see this again. No $200 tickets, no fighting, no moshing, no selfies, no tension, no body fat, no riots. This is how the world was in 1969.…

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  • Last Drinks

    Last Drinks

    Another year of cyclocross racing is over and for those of us who love it, it feels like boxing day. The mass of race tape is our pile of wrapping paper, we have a gazebo to put away instead of a tree, all the other equipment needs packed away in a cupboard and we are…

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  • Powering The Paralane

    Powering The Paralane

    In which the interminably cheerful Jeremy Powers gets sent to Iceland by Focus Bikes to assess the capabilities of the Paralane endurance/cross/discroadfastbike. To be perfectly honest, I’d be happy to watch J Pow do a grocery run by bike but if there’s one location to advertise an anywhere bicycle, the shingle and singletrack on display…

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  • Insider Rides: Brett’s Jaegher Interceptor

    Insider Rides: Brett’s Jaegher Interceptor

    Insider Rides looks at the bikes that we ride, the bikes that industry insiders ride, that racers ride, and everyday folk ride. This time out, we take a look at the road bike of head-Slapper Brett, a bike conceived over many years in the mind, and eventually realised in the spiritual heartland of cycling. Cyclists love to…

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  • Tuscan Trials

    Tuscan Trials

    I’m sure many would agree that there’s a perverse enjoyment to be found in watching footage and films of endurance racing. We as the audience don’t want things to go as planned. Gear failure, psychological failure and general, comprehensive suffering are all components that go towards a satisfying viewing experience. At the previous “Tuscany Trail” …

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  • Small Wheels In Paris

    Small Wheels In Paris

    Enigmatic French style merchants Grande Rue Mag submit the sleek street stylings of Nicolas Badet for our delectation. Having neither the requisite high school French qualification nor inclination to venture farther than the humourously imprecise translations proffered by omniscient Big Brot… Google, Grande Rue’s 3.6.5 project shall remain appropriately mysterious to me. However, we might…

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  • Seeing Double: CX Nats Soak In The Brown

    Seeing Double: CX Nats Soak In The Brown

    What does it take to cancel a cyclocross race? It’s a question that––at 7am with gale force winds catapulting drops of rain that sound as big as golf balls into glass that surely can’t resist much longer––has only one answer: Nothing can cancel a cyclocross race. Maybe if this was a regular Hüttcross event we…

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