Tag: retro
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In Pursuit Of Going Slow
Click or not: In Pursuit Of Going SlowI pieced together a bicycle recently with nostalgia and parts-bin pragmatism. The top-of-the-line frame from 25 years ago has patina-ed well, bearing marks of use and care and enjoyment. Everything else has been scrounged, traded for beer, borrowed, or was just hanging around as these things do. I think about buying a front rack and… …
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Insider Rides: Buck’s Hinault Custom
Click or not: Insider Rides: Buck’s Hinault CustomIt’s always strange meeting people that you’ve previously only known by the wonders of the internet. I’d talked to American ex-pat Buck Rogers on a popular forum many times over the years, and his enthusiasm for all things steel, Euro, and unique leapt off the page in a cacophony of “fuck yeah!”s and “right on”s. When… …
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Insider Rides: Ryan’s Metro Rat 22
Click or not: Insider Rides: Ryan’s Metro Rat 22Anyone who rides anything seems to have a bling bike these days, and the amount of tech that is on the average mountain or road bike would baffle those of us who were around way back in the day when categories or niches weren’t yet invented. There were kids bikes, and adult bikes. Sometimes, the… …
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Retro Ronde
Click or not: Retro RondeSteel bikes, wool jerseys, leather shoes, mesh gloves, hairnets, Belgian brews and cobbles… what’s not to love about the Retro Ronde van Vlaanderen? …
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Deus Does L’Eroica, Chianti Style
Click or not: Deus Does L’Eroica, Chianti StylePurveyors of all things style on two wheels Deus ex Machina once again infiltrated the rolling hills and strade bianche of Chianti for the 2016 edition of L’Eroica. A kind of old school cosplay with bicycles and wine, a proliferation of handlebars and handlebar moustaches, and no carbon in sight. The American arm of Deus… …
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Insider Rides: The Retro Rod
Click or not: Insider Rides: The Retro RodInsider Rides looks at the bikes that we ride, the bikes that industry insiders ride, that racers ride, and everyday folk ride. For this instalment, we take it back in time, way back to, oh, only 2009… have bikes really come this far in seven years? Rod Bardsley put together this Trek TopFuel with some bits from… …
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Silca Pumps Up The Volume
Click or not: Silca Pumps Up The VolumeLong before you could fit a pump in your pocket or have it hanging off the side of your bidon cage like a cigar-shaped tumour or silver turd, way before you could screw a tiny chuck on a Co2 canister and freeze your fingers to it on a winter’s day, the frame pump was the undisputed… …