Serotta announces two limited edition bikes

2011 marks the 25th year of collaborative tube engineering between Ben Serotta and Columbus of Italy. To mark the milestone, the company is proud to announce the introduction of two limited edition bicycles that mark this enduring and innovative relationship. Introducing the 2011 Limited Edition Series Colorado VentiCinque 25 (CVC) and the very exclusive 2011 Limited Edition Series ‘Le Patron’

La Spectrum esiste ancora, non ditelo a Bond

Spectrum Cycles was originally founded to produce the highest quality custom steel and titanium frames and bicycles in the world. With this singular goal, Spectrum founder and president Tom Kellogg began building frames under the Spectrum name in 1982. In 1985 Tom employed Master Signature frame builder and long-time friend Jeff Duser.

Dario Pegoretti

Richard Sachs

Sacha White

Peter Weigle

Mike Flanigan

Jeff Jones

Merry Christmas

Skinny jacket by Pistard

Designed for changeable conditions, the ultrafit shape and the stretch fabric also ensure a sharp and versatile look: you can even transform the jacket in a waistcoast, thanks to the detachable sleeves, to keep your body warm only where it serves. 

Bespoked Bristol - The UK Handmade Bicycle Show

Bespoked Bristol is a UK based public event promoting the international talents of independent makers and designers of the bicycle world.

This is the place for the public, industry and press to meet independent makers and designers of everything bicycle.

United Bicycle Institute

2011 marks UBI's 30th anniversary! Since 1981, more bicycle professionals and enthusiasts have chosen United Bicycle Institute over any other mechanics school. That’s because UBI's knowledgeable, friendly and dedicated faculty and its state-of-the-art facilities ensure an unsurpassed educational experience for every student. We offer our curriculum at two different campuses: our headquarters in Ashland, Oregon and our classroom facility in Portland, Oregon. United Bicycle Institute is the industry's leading technical school offering courses in repair, frame building, and mechanic certification for beginner to advanced technicians.

www.bikeschool.com

Bespoke: The Handbuilt Bicycle

Bespoke: The Handbuilt Bicycle from The Digital Project on Vimeo.

This video presents the builders from Bespoke: The Handbuilt Bicycle in their natural habitats: workshop, road, track, and trail. Featuring Sacha White (Vanilla), Peter Weigle, Richard Sachs, Mike Flanigan (Alternative Need Transportations), Dario Pegoretti and Jeff Jones.

Mark Dawson Studio

I am a San Francisco based photographer, cyclist, scuba diver, food and tech geek. www.markdawsonstudio.com

NAHBS 2011 - the winners

Questi sono i vincitori nelle varie specialità dei NAHBS Awards 2011. A marzo l'edizione 2012 avrà luogo a Sacramento, California

Keith Anderson Cycles

Keith Anderson is a master of what he does: painting bicycle frames, both restorations and new projects. He is world-renown for his delicately-masked paint

DiNucci cycles

 Over the last 40 years I have focused on only one thing, designing and building the best bicycles possible. Starting as one of the earliest US framebuilders in the 1970’s, I specialized in handmade frames for road and track and continued that work through the mid 80’s when I turned to designing production bikes for some of the biggest brands in cycling.

Pietro Piazzalunga, Mechanic to Champions

Pietro Piazzalunga is a very kind and modest man. He possesses a temperament that that Italians call "dolcezza". This word doesn't translate well into English. It conveys a sense of considerate kindness and sweetness without meaning effeminate. As you read this interview you will see that he has a kind word to say about everyone and everything. That's just his way. He is so self-effacing that in meeting him for the first time one would not think that he was one of the finest mechanics in the history of cycling.

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Gary Fisher’s house

Can mountain and commuter bikes live together peacefully in the same garage? They do at Gary Fisher’s house. One of Marin County’s original gangster progenitors of mountain bikes (he and business partner Charlie Kelly coined the term as the name of their bike company, MountainBikes, in 1979), Fisher was racing competitively from the age of 12 in cyclocross and on and off-road events. He now works in design and marketing for his eponymous label at Trek. But a funny thing happened in 2007….

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Cane Creek by Dirt Mag

Located on a rural roadside outside the small town of Fletcher, NC — and about twenty minutes due south of the hipster haven of Asheville — is the headquarters of component manufacturer Cane Creek. A passing cyclist could easily overlook the long, non-descript cement building, if not for the plethora of bikes sitting atop roof racks in the parking lot, loaded in anticipation of an after-work ride. Via Dirt Mag

Telai veramente Strong

Carl Strong era un corridore che si è messo a fabbricare telai in America, e  che ben presto ha avuto successo. Ora la sua azienda ha dieci operai. Costruisce telai in acciaio, titanio, alluminio e carbonio, ma la sua specialità è la saldatura a TIG. www.strongframes.com  

Zullo bikes

In 1994, Zullo would move into the production of tig-welded aluminium frames. Eventually this would lead to the production of combined aluminium/carbon frames. In 2003, Zullo was able to offer made-to-measure full carbon frames. Nowadays, Tiziano Zullo is still involved in the production of some, mainly steel frames. Alongside this, he is still responsible for all the frame graphics and some of the frame painting. www.zullo-bike.com

Spectrum track

www.spectrum-cycles.com

Tubo sterzo

via http://charliebucketcycles.com/

Dario’s portraits by wowe

Dario Pegoretti mi ha raccontato che wowe aveva fatto a lui e al Pero alcuni scatti. Tornato a casa a New York gli ha mandato le foto più uno splendido ritratto di Miles Davis.

Richard Sachs su Bicycle Guide del 1990

Rouleur #27

If there is a theme to this issue, then it is one of transformation.

Fritz Gallati was the first professional to be stripped of his licence and banned from racing for doping offences in a scandal that rocked Switzerland in 1961. Herbie Sykes unravels the plot behind the former Six-Day rider’s story while Fritz applies the greasepaint. Ben Ingham captures the tears of a clown on camera.

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Tiziano Zullo

Tiziano Zullo takes tubes of steel and turns them into frames of quality and beauty. Paolo Ciaberta’s photos do justice to the man and his work

Fissaazione@Cervia

Christmas and New Year - Piazza Andrea Costa 35, Cervia - Ottica Filippi

Vertigo cycles

Your Builder :: Sean Chaney

It was only a matter of time before all my obsessive tinkering, modification and design brought me to the logical point of building titanium bicycle frames. Now I'm trying harder than ever to give my inner nerd free reign to create great riding and aesthetically pleasing bicycles . A visually simple design is often surprisingly difficult to execute.