Category: STYLE

  • Read: Icons

    Read: Icons

    Yes, Wiggins is like marmite – you either like him or your hate him. But the one thing you can’t take away is that he gets it. The why. Co-written with historian Herbie Sykes, ‘Icons’ is a homage to the riders that for Wiggins have shaped cycle racing. You could liken it to a Desert…

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  • The Dream Factory

    The Dream Factory

    Fenders, as cyclists know them, are just useful items for wet weather riding. Real Fenders, as those who are more attuned with the musical sphere can relate, are for strumming, picking, thrashing out power chords and soloing blistering licks. Taking a look at 30th anniversary of the birthplace of the Fender Custom Shop, the legendary…

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  • Gravitosos

    Gravitosos

    In this five part YouTube series, Solido Studio explores the gravity racer culture in Medellín Columbia. They document a group of Medellín mad dogs that have modded-out BMX frames to race downhill on some of the coolest winding Colombian public roads. There’s no pedaling involved obviously, dumbbells replace cranks and the frames have been stretched out…

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  • Insider Rides: Webster San

    Insider Rides: Webster San

    For this instalment of Insider Rides Sam Webster talks us through his bespoke Miura-san Bridgestone after returning from his second trip on the prestigious Keirin circuit. “Everyone’s in the same boat, and that’s the one thing with Japanese Keirin, everyone has the same equipment within their strict specification, even your helmet and your jersey. So…

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  • Monday

    Monday

     Putting the steeze in Monday’s paper run with Freehub’s Paperboy, Scotty Scamehorn.

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  • Cerchio Ghisallo

    Cerchio Ghisallo

    Every year, as the Giro di Lombardia snakes through the hills nestled above Lake Como, an old man, Giovanni Cermenati, claps the riders as they pass the top of his driveway just a few hundred metres past the Madonna del Ghisallo. He then turns and heads back to his small workshop, back to continue his…

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  • Claudio Marinangeli: The Gate Keeper

    Claudio Marinangeli: The Gate Keeper

    In true fashion, it takes nine people to put the clock up, seven of those help verbally. Now we can see the time we can see that it is late and that everyone should get started. Don’t tell the riders that have already filtered off though, getting their first stamp of the day and spinning…

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  • When Team Cars Had Class

    When Team Cars Had Class

    In a time where style, class and character were in abundance, Bill Woodul captured these images of the Pro team cars, wagons and vans in the mid to late seventies. Opel, Peugeot, Citroen, Mercedes, Fiat and BMW and the iconic Merckx Volvo. Pure class without a mega-bus in sight. Hand-painted sponsorship decals by craftsmen with…

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