David Kirk, framebuilder

I've been working in the bike industry since I was in high school and I always wanted to be a frame builder. I've worked in shops and raced BMX, road and mountain bikes over the years.
When I was about 14, I built my first bike frame with my grandfather Ernie King. It was a suspension BMX frame. It broke.

Pegoretti+King+Colombo+Campagnolo = la mia bici Day is done

Sapete chi sono questi signori e cos'hanno in comune?
Nell'ordine: Dario Pegoretti, colui che ha realizzato il telaio della mia Day is done; Chris King, che ha fatto la serie sterzo montata su quel telaio; Antonio Colombo, che produce gli Spirit, i tubi in acciaio con cui è fatto il telaio; Valentino Campagnolo, erede di Tullio che ha prodotto i migliori gruppi al mondo, cerchi compresi.

Campagnolo Nuovo Record & Sugino by Jon Grant

Jon Grant has worked as an illustrator, designer, and printer all of his professional life. He is fascinated with riding and the mechanical aspects of classic bicycles, so naturally, he can’t resist drawing them. We offer prints of his original ink drawings here. Offset printed in dense, black ink on white, acid-free, Bristol cover. Printed in USA.

Cielo by Chris King

Cielo Stainless Steel Lugged Sportif from Chris King on Vimeo.

Chris King recalls the long days & late nights in his home workshop fabricating a stainless steel lugged road bike for the 2011 North American Handmade Bicycle Show

Fyxomatosis

via www.fyxomatosis.com

Lorca's Cycling

via www.fyxomatosis.com

E mò cori!

Roma, 10 Dicembre, alle ore 16:00 suona l' adunata a Via Alfredo Catalani (Pro bike shop Roma) per la prima alleycat organizzata dai corrieri di EADESSOPEDALA in collaborazione con LOBSTER e la neonata VELOROME.

Wrench. The Rouleur Road Bike Maintenance Evening

The first Rouleur Road Bike Maintenance Evening is taking place on Monday, December 5, at Look Mum No Hands! in London. Editor Guy Andrews - author of Road Bike Maintenance - and Rohan Dubash, expert mechanic and technical writer, will tackle The Seven Deadly Sins: adjustment and alignment, creaks and squeaks, chain hygiene, punctures and bike fit.

Veloflex, handmade in Italy

Fondata nel 1981, Veloflex iniziò la sua attività con la produzione di articoli in gomma e plastica per stampanti. Solo qualche anno più tardi, grazie alla passione per la bicicletta dei due soci fondatori, Veloflex iniziò a produrre tubolari e gomme da competizione. L'avventura che ha portato Veloflex a diventare uno tra i produttori di tubolari e gomme da competizione più apprezzati è iniziata in un piccolo laboratorio nella Bergamasca.

Alchemy

Steel Fixed Gear Bike: Fixies mean different things to different people. A fixed gear bike can be a perfect winter cadence trainer for the hardcore roadie. For others, it's the ultimate urban assault vehicle. No matter what your tastes, we can design a frame with a tube set optimized for your needs. Let us know where you ride and we'll engineer a bike to match.

http://www.alchemybicycles.com/

Héritage Paris

HERITAGE Paris est là pour vous y aider. Concevoir et fabriquer des vélos sur mesure, c’est ce que propose la maison créée par Cyril Saulnier, Alexandre et Simon Billard, en mettant à disposition des amoureux des belles choses tout le savoir-faire d’artisans cadreurs. A commencer par celui de Daniel Hanart, véritable orfèvre du cadre qui a travaillé pour les plus grands champions.

http://heritage-paris.com/

Khalil's Fixed by Chris Bishop

Photo taken by John "Prolly" Watson

Bishop handcrafted bicycles

Steel # 3

Don’t get it wrong ! The colour of this issue is not pink but magenta (c : 0 ; M : 100 ; J : 0 ; n :0) ! You can’t really imagine pink on the cover of a men’s magazine. As everybody knows, biking is a guy’s business. Careful! Not that much ! We wanted magenta because women are an intagral part of Steel. What would we do without women’s fashion series, without sensual shapes next to a frame. How could we miss their distinct eye and their light pen ? A pen that turns our technical and machist material into a pleasant content understandable to all. Let us see life through pink-coloured glasses for this third and last issue of the year 2011. These past months have been punctuated by events, interviews and discoveries. This issue is not an inventory nor an overview of biking, but once more a nice little mess. At the same time vintage and contemporary, delicate and trash, cold and sensual, sober and erotic, Steel again goes in all directions.

http://www.steelmagazine.fr/

Oregon Manifest 2011 Constructors' Show

Oregon Manifest 2011 Constructors' Show from oregon manifest on Vimeo.

‎Scatto Fisso Forgood 2011: la bicicletta che fa bene ai bambini

Anche quest’anno i benemeriti di Biscagne cicli organizzano la riffa natalizia a favore della lotta alle leucemie infantili. In palio una vecchia Bottecchia rigenerata alla loro maniera, cioè splendida. Partecipiamo!

http://www.biascagne-cicli.it/bici/scatto-fisso-forgood-2011/  

Focus on Andrea's bike

Telaio Condor World Series Pista, pipa Cinelli, piega 66-42 Campione Del Mondo, ruote Rigida, mozzo Sturmey Archer S2c, sella Regal San Marco scamosciata, guarnitura Campagnolo

Andrea, Head Mechanic

Questo signore (un 'vero signore', gentile garbato, disponibile e soprattutto esperto) è il capo meccanico di Condor Cycle a Londra, e questa è una delle sue bici: ovviamente un telaio Condor, modello WS Pista con pipa e piega Cinelli Criterium, cerchi Rigida, cambio e freno sul mozzo contropedale, veramente splendida. Si chiama Andrea Cattolico ed è italiano (anzi, sardo, per l'esattezza). Ho avuto la fortuna e il privilegio d'incontrarlo (grazie al forum 'Casa Pegoretti') durante il mio ultimo viaggio a Londra.
Il suo 'bunker' è al piano sottostante di questo negozio a Grey's Inn, dove assembla e ripara per i suoi fortunati clienti londinesi.

14bikeco is [almost] back

14bikeco torna alla Truman Brewery,Brick Lane (forse...) http://www.14bikeco.com/

Condor: Past Present Future

Past Present Future goes behind the scenes through interviews, essays and photo stories with close friends, riders and the famous names that have ridden the bikes over Condor’s sixty-five year history. Condor partnered with the makers of The Ride Journal for the project, named Past Present Future, and features a mix of portraits and studio and lifestyle photography by a range of contributors.

Rouleur Annual Volume 5

Rouleur Annual Volume 5 is released on December 2, but you can pre-order now to be sure of securing this limited run edition in plenty of time for Christmas.

Rouleur

Condor World Series Pista

A new limited edition range frames that celebrate our founder’s 80th birthday, as well as the success of Condor supported riders at world level. The World Series is a run of 150 framesets in five different colour combinations, featuring a colour of cycling’s world champion rainbow band. Based upon Condor’s professional track teams of the 60s and 70s, the World Series frame features lugged, butted, round profile steel tubes. Each frameset is made by hand in Italy and comes as a special kit.

Condor: creating the Paris

In February our designer Ben and film maker Andy Waterman went to our factory to film the first production models of the new Paris Path single speed being created.

It takes the skills of several frame builders to produce the frame and fork. What you see being welded in the film is laser cut bi-laminations that have then been folded and shaped to form a design for the front of the bicycle. After a few days of building the frame is sent to our painters where the it is painted and Maria fits the decals and spends hours polishing the lacquer.

The frame is sent to London, England. Here we face and prepare the frames to be built into bicycles.

Eric Clapton's bikes

“My first bike was a James, given to me by Jack [Clapton’s uncle] after I'd pestered him to give me a Triumph Palm Beach, like the one he had, which was metallic scarlet and cream and was as far as I was concerned the ultimate bike (...) by taking one of the brakes off, removing the mudguards, stripping it down, and giving it different tires--the kind for riding over mud--

Milan BFF’ s Bike

Un altro dei capolavori simbolo di legor, telaio realizzato con tubazioni columbus spirit keirin, molto particolare a partire dalla forca che non presenta praticamente rake, se non per i forcellini saldati in modo non convenzionale.
Le pendine sono asimmetriche per conferire uno scarico proporzionato di potenza sia a destra che a sinistra, mentre nel tubo piantone è presente uno scasso per la ruota al fine di rendere il carro molto corto, altra chicca della bici la chiusura della sella che ricorda il taglio di una catana giapponese.
Presentata al bike film festival di Milano ha ricevuto numerosi complimenti, facendo si che Legor si distinguesse e facesse spazio tra i grandi nomi della bicilcetta.

www.legorcicli.it

Waxed Canvas Roll Top Messenger Bag

Constructed from American-made 10 oz. waxed canvas, this limited-edition version of our Rummy messenger bag gets better with age. The weatherproof canvas will show unique wear patterns that reflect the trials of your daily routine.

The Rummy features a roll top compartment along with two quick-access cargo pockets, four internal zippered pockets, custom aluminum hardware and a detachable cross-chest stabilizer.

Made in the USA with a lifetime warranty.

http://missionworkshop.com/

Choir / bike flashmob Central Station Brussels

Retrovelo Frame Bag

A fine leather bicycle frame bag from Retrovelo that is compatible with many classic horizontal top tube bike frames. It has two compartments that can easily fit a laptop and much more. This bag is a super stylish and easy way to carry all of your personal belongings during your daily commute.
Available in Black or Brown leather - 2mm thick. Two belt hooks and a TENAX button on seat tube 35.5x12x30 cm

www.adelineadeline.com

Ride me high. Visiting the Master, the best framebuilder in the world: Dario Pegoretti

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Cycleur de Luxe

Cycleur de Luxe. Modèles hiver 2011 Crush cuir marron et beige. Modèle Velocity cuir marron et bleu

Cuò

Questa è la mia prima bicicletta che non era destinata al mercato. Cuò è stata progettata per una persona per me importante e speciale,che mi accompagna da tanti anni, in base ovviamente alle sue taglie ed ai suoi gusti, tutti a me ben noti. Il risultato finale mi pare sia una bici sobria, senza pretese di bizzarre originalità, elegante nella sua dichiarata semplicità, dalle soluzioni intelligenti ma non spocchiose, affidabile nel suo lavoro senza appesantirsi di tecnicismi, con annessi di alta qualità; Cuò risulta così scattante, energica e sportiva. Ha anche un ché di familiare (il bianco puro delle vecchie bici della nonna) ma anche di moderno e sbarazzino, e qualcosa di affettuoso (le sue cromature brillano di luce propria). Insomma, Cuò è in tutto simile alla persona a cui l’ho omaggiata.

Cuò – componenti