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Tag: Road

  • Laconic LA

    Laconic LA

    Taylor Phinney is so laid back it’s a wonder he doesn’t fall asleep as he takes a two-wheeled tour of Los Angeles’ gritty city streets and dirty (nicer) hills. …

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  • Worlds Kits: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

    Worlds Kits: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

    The Road World Championships are always a cavalcade of colour, with riders ditching their trade team allegiances and (supposedly) coming together under the colours of their home countries.A rider who may have been resplendent in their team kit all season can suddenly be reduced to looking like they shopped at K-Mart, all because of where… …

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  • Go The Distance

    Go The Distance

    Quite a simple plan really, ride to the ferry, do a loop around Northern France of about 250 kilometres, ish, get the ferry back, ride home. Borrow the route from a long distance cycling partner, he knows a good route, thanks Gav. It doesn’t have to be Epic, just a big day out, and just… …

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  • New Paths

    New Paths

    The artist is drawn to the cycle, whether it be the cycle of creation, of restoration, of expression. Some are drawn to the cycle of the cycle, the bicycle, as it represents art in its very form, and pure artistry when in physical motion application. Peter Šiška uses his hands for restorative art, and his… …

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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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  • Hunters: Gustavo’s Garage

    Hunters: Gustavo’s Garage

     Deux North’s Hunters series kicks off with a tour around the LA digs of Gustavo Sanchez, a purveyor of style on two wheels of both the rumbling and quiet kinds. …

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  • Style Icons: Gert-Jan Theunisse

    Style Icons: Gert-Jan Theunisse

    Nowadays you would be hard pressed to find a mullet as sensational as the one Gert-Jan Theunisse rocked in the late 80s and early 90s, certainly not in the peloton and only slightly less likely in everyday life. Unless you’re from Rooty Hill, the Hutt, or maybe Shane Archbold, who gives it a pretty good… …

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  • Eroica Montalcino

    Eroica Montalcino

    I thought I was pretty lucky getting the chance to ride Eroica Japan in 2017, but my luck continued in 2018 with a five week trip to Italy, Croatia and Slovenia, with five days in Montalcino Tuscany, to ride the Eroica Montalcino. It started out as an opportunity to reunite with some Eroica friends from the Japanese… …

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