NAHBS This past weekend the city of Sacramento has been home to the annual North American Handmade Bicycle Show. While for many this is a comparative non-event compared to the likes of Eurobike and Interbike this is the show for all handmade bikes. Last year I went down to North Shore, Geelong to have a discussion with Darren Baum [...]
Today while sipping the customary friday afternoon latte in Bike Gallery I made a bold claim. That claim was that Cyclocross will be the next big thing in 2012. Only time will tell whether this prediction is accurate but I as much as anyone will be hoping it is because I believe that Cyclocross would [...]
Rider: Eddy Merckx As we draw to the end of the Christmas countdown we see that Eddy Merckx was the most victorious cyclist ever with 333 road victories during his career. There is little to say about Eddy Merckx as his palmares are complete barring one race which was Paris-Tours. Fellow Belgian Noel Vantyghem said famously, “Between [...]
Rapha Rising Day 1 Today the Rapha Festive 500 begun and to celebrate Dad and I rode a lovely 70.5km through the Melbourne’s East on route to the Dandenongs. Here we climbed the Devil’s Elbow before a lovely ride back down to Hawthorn after stopping in the Basin for coffee. All up we rode 70.5km [...]
Rider : Rik Van Steenbergen Rik was a monster of 1950′s cycling who raced practically non stop and in the process collected a staggering amount of victories. His greatest victories on the road involved five monuments as well as tying the World Championship victory count of three with Alfredo Binda, notice that name keep popping up? [...]
