Both Brooks and PEDALeD will be represented at the MYBIKE exhibition in Paris.
No major world city has remained untouched by the resurgence of bicycling as a means of undertaking one’s urban commute, or simply getting around. And by any scale of measurement, we can probably all agree that Paris is a major world city.
It was with this in mind that we took a look last week at one of our Parisian Brooks Supreme Dealers Of Excellence, and today take a look today at MY BIKE, an upcoming exhibition taking place in Paris. It will showcase some should-haves for the bicycliste looking to cut a smart yet practical dash both on and off two wheels.
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.
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…
A flavour of L’Eroica’s 2010 instalment from the Tweed Run‘s own Ted Young-Ing. (Bregan and Tim doing their best for the camera)
“The organization will not admit riders with farcical or ironic clothing or behaviour.” (Excerpt from the 2011 Rules and Regulations)
As autumn approaches, 500 lucky non-Italians are doubtless polishing their first generation Campa Gruppos, Proofiding their leather helmets and scouring vintage stores for a decent woollen maglia. Yes, Siena’s l’Eroica is once again soon upon us!
Readers will recall last month how we mentioned our planned involvement with Intelligence Squared on their ‘Cycling Festival’ project at the Royal Geographical Society.
With the evenings getting shorter, and surfaces wetter, it will soon be time for Bike Polo players to withdraw to their natural winter habitat, the multi-storey carpark. But there are still a couple of big tournaments scheduled to be played under open skies in 2011. One of them takes place in London mid-October and is the first to actively search out, invite and promote all-lady teams.
Newington Gardens in East London will be the setting for Hell’s Belles Vol. 1.
And all of it for the greater glory of mallet heaving on two human powered wheels.
On Monday 1st August 2011, Brooks England will close its factory doors again after 145 years in business. We wish to take this opportunity to express our gratitude to you, our loyal customers, whose patronage has kept us going from the height of the Industrial Revolution, onward through two world wars, and up to the contemporary ravages of globalisation.
Recently at the international fashion show PREMIUM in Berlin, the organizers of the BERLINER FAHRRAD SCHAU got together some of the busiest labels producing fashionable apparel for cycling for an exhibition entitled “velo couture®“.
Both Brooks and PEDALeD will be represented at the MYBIKE exhibition in Paris.
