Tag: Campagnolo

  • Chainslap Garage Presents: ‘Hotblack Desiato’ CAAD4

    Chainslap Garage Presents: ‘Hotblack Desiato’ CAAD4

    I remember it well. The intersection of Evans Street and Ross, a gentleman older than me. To my left he rode, alongside a Kombi van likely piloted by a stoned me. Almost definitely. It was the bulk, the ‘fatness’ that drew my attention. Not that of the rider, but of the bicycle underneath him. Accustomed…

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  • Chainslap Garage: Bosomworth SLX

    Chainslap Garage: Bosomworth SLX

    Bicycles are family. They are always there for you, usually don’t let you down, and you love them for the most part. And sometimes, you just have to let them go. Chainslap Garage is like an extended family, with more bikes than we’d ever be comfortable housing if they were actual children. Even the favourites…

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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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  • Insider Rides: Brett’s Jaegher Interceptor Speedmaster

    Insider Rides: Brett’s Jaegher Interceptor Speedmaster

    I’m an impatient type of guy, mostly. I’ll lie in bed thinking about something that I need to do tomorrow, but jump up and do it right now. If it can be done inside, of course, I mean I’m not heading out to change the oil in the car or anything. So waiting for a new…

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  • Iconic Style: Campagnolo Group 4 Wheels

    Iconic Style: Campagnolo Group 4 Wheels

    The Italians do most forms of style better than most, especially when it comes to cars. Sometimes at the cost of efficiency and reliability, sure, but that’s what gives them their originality too. I always pined for an Alfa Romeo in my teens, and when I finally acquired one I was smitten by the style,…

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  • Insider Rides: Five Buck Beauty

    Insider Rides: Five Buck Beauty

    What can you get for a fiver these days? A whole shitty pizza, a slice of good pizza, a fancy foamy coffee, or a classic steel road bike. Sure, you have to be pretty lucky to get a road bike (or a coffee) for that, but when you have friends who collect and recycle roadside…

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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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