The sun, the moon… the stars are attached to seatposts inside.
It is tempting nowadays for bike shop owners to narrow their range of machines to a specific style of bicycle. There are lots of reasons for this. As a “specialist” for one particular bike or cycling-related line of products, the stockist is almost guaranteed a (perhaps small, yet) fiercely loyal constituency of people prepared to spend money at his premises, often on items surplus to their immediate requirements. Which is a nice constituency to be selling to in 2012.
But the Reboux Brothers, Sebastian and Julien, in their Brooks be-rivetted emporium Les Vélos Parisiens in the French capital’s 7th arrondissement do things differently. They sell everything. Or at least, it can certainly seem that way.
Jordan Smith of MixTMeat putting the W New York bike through its paces. Lovely song as well from Devendra Banhart
Guests at one of London’s top hotels have been using some pretty unique bicycles to get around the British capital over the past couple of months. The bikes in question were designed by some top names from the world of fine arts, design, music and fashion: artist Benedict Radcliffe, designer Ron Arad, singer Paloma Faith, fashion label Alice by Temperley, illustrator Natasha Law and footwear designer Patrick Cox.
The six bicycles will be auctioned off in just two days to raise funds for the Elton John AIDS Foundation, the auction currently found online at a favored auctioning website, with bids being accepted from now until just after World AIDS Day on the 2nd December 2011.
More than likely, most world circumnavigations by bike next year will be taking place under the auspices of Vin Cox’s Global Bike Race. Tanzanian naturalist and tour guide Elvis Munis, however, will be taking a somewhat less direct route.
He’ll be putting down around fifty thousand miles over the course of his two-year world tour to raise money for the Conservation Research Center and send ten students to college in his native country.
Nick Hand, pausing to catch a breath on his coastal cycling jaunt.
There’s something about Long Distance Touring that has an attractiveness for increasing numbers of people these days. By switching off the phone, packing up their panniers and seeing where the next road takes them, cyclists can find the time and space to follow their instincts, form their own ideas, and see the the world truly with their own eyes.
We can all agree that having one grandmother named Adeline might not be much cause for raised eyebrows. But having two, we can also agree, is surely a six-rivet conversational nugget of the very highest order. And so it came to pass that when Julie Hirschfeld opened a bike shop in 2010, the name over the door bore testament to this bizarre nomenclatural coincidence.
22 Nov 2011 | Posted by GARETH | Categories: Friends
Yes they “can”. Proofide stockist extraordinaire Condor Cycles in London.
Since its inception, only a handful of participants in our Dealers Of Excellence programme worldwide have even come close to attaining the maximum number of “rivets” Brooks can theoretically award to shops which tick a hefty requisite number of bicycling-related boxes.
One such establishment is the globally renowned Condor Cycles in London.
An incomparable vista. Riding the twisting, gravelly tracks of Chianti at L’Eroica. (Photo Dustin Nordhus, Cicli Berlinetta)
The dust has quite literally begun to settle once again in northern Italy, where a few weeks back Gaiole played host to a couple of thousand cyclists set on recreating the feel of a bike race entirely devoid of Carbon Fibre, Synthetic Isotonic Potions, System Pedals, or any other development conceived over the past thirty years to make a ride last less long.
Of course we’re talking about L’Eroica, and Brooks was once again a proud sponsor of the event. Shortly before this year’s instalment we managed to get in touch with our good friend Mark Reber, who was making the trip over from the United States. He kindly agreed to collect some of his impressions of the weekend and commit them to paper for us, while taking many fine photographs (MR), some of which are interspersed below with those of his friend Rodger Lynch (RL) and Dustin Nordhus (DN). Now read on…
Inflation in 1920′s Germany would have made this a Six Million Mark Bicycle.
A bike restoration project is one of those happy undertakings in which those involved frequently wish they’d never started, yet secretly hope will never end. In this regard we have some good news, and also some bad news reaching us this morning from Hamburg, Germany, where Nico Thomas and his two sons have recently applied the final revitalizing touches to a machine first ridden over 80 years ago.
(editor’s note: the following is the charming diary of five young people from Birmingham who approached us to support their charity ride from Birmingham to Berlin to raise money for Cancer Research UK. A video of this adventure is soon to follow.)
Grant Petersen, purveyor and fabricator extraordinaire of Rivendell lugged steel frames and sundry high quality bicycling-related stuff, has in the past weeks overseen some changes to his company’s website.
Its earlier incarnation was throughout a repository of good-humoured common sense; a place to visit if you were seeking expert advice on matters bicycular, or irrespective of subject merely hopeful of reading meaningful, well-written sentences. This made it exceptional, certainly, and perhaps close to unique among all commercial entities deriving from the central notion of two human-powered wheels.
In these respects, mercifully, nothing has changed.
The sun, the moon… the stars are attached to seatposts inside.
