The strength of the headline: ‘Team Alonso will race 2015’ is not matched by the statement in the quote from the UCI in the penultimate paragraph of the story: “We very much welcome Fernando Alonso’s interest and look forward to discussing further with him and his advisors. We’d be very, very happy if the team is […]
Issue 3 of Conquista is now available and across the 306 pages you can take a look at: http://www.conquista.cc/magazine A Man of Determination, Michael Drapac’s speech during the team launch at the Tour Down Under Gran Fondo Roma – a photographic set by Pablo Moreno – beautiful colours Cyclo Cross North West – a quintessential […]
Luke Roberts has retired from professional racing. I knew that sentence would be written one day and part of me wished it would never come. Luke’s last race was the recent Velothon Berlin. On the team website, Luke said: “The time has come for me to hang up the wheels, well one set at least, […]
The day before the 2014 Giro kicked-off in Belfast we took some time to catch-up with Team Movistar’s star rider Nairo Quintana, courtesy of Official Partner Endura. The Colombian climbing expert took a few minutes out of his last minute race prep to undergo a custom fitting session for Endura’s new FS260-Pro SL Bibshorts. This latest bit […]
The day before the 2014 Giro kicked-off in Belfast we took some time to catch-up with Team Movistar’s star rider Nairo Quintana, courtesy of Official Partner Endura. The Colombian climbing expert took a few minutes out of his last minute race prep to undergo a custom fitting session for Endura’s new FS260-Pro SL Bibshorts. This latest bit […]
The cover of Issue 3 was brought to us by Jack Chevell captured during his recent trip to L’Enfer Du Nord. Issue 3 will be our biggest edition yet. It will be packed with stunning galleries and stories of suffering, camaraderie and beauty. We will publish Issue 3 on 15 May. Tell your friends.
Former design director of Nike, Eric Duvauchelle, has designed what he calls ‘the ultimate urban bicycle’ – the CYLO. With a lightweight frame designed in partnership with arro studio, CYLO packs the features for safe city riding, such as dynamo powered lights and a brake light for safety, fenders to keep you dry, and a carbon belt drive […]
We came across this ‘one off’ beauty on Selectism: http://www.selectism.com/2014/04/11/shinola-create-a-one-off-twinn-tandem-bicycle-with-schwinn/ As reported by Lena Dystant on Selectism: The bike is a 1969 Schwinn Twinn tandem, discovered at a bicycle flea market in Ohio last year by Shinola, has received a full makeover. All of the original parts removed to be cleaned, paint stripped, the shiny new edition receives […]
So it would appear that Neil Pryde has been pressured by Specialized to drop the ‘Alize’ branded bike because it is too confusingly similar to ‘Allez’. Presumably, a reasonable person would not be so confused but we will never know as Neil Pryde has chosen to re-brand rather than spend the legal fees to fight […]
Luckily, we were able to do some riding through the middle of the day around Zugerberg this week. The Canton of Zug is a small, little known cousin, to its larger neighbour, the Canton of Zurich. Zug is known as the best legitimate tax effective State in Europe. It boasts addresses of the largest companies […]