Ecco le strade che ci piacciono

Percorre le autostrade in bicicletta. L’idea potrebbe apparire a molti un’utopia. Ma in Germania ci stavano pensando già da un po’. E ora il sogno potrebbe tradursi in realtà. Il rivoluzionario progetto si chiama, in attesa di trovargli un nome migliore, Radler B-1 ed è allo studio per collegare le città di Dortmund e Duisburg nella regione della Ruhr, da tempo congestionata dal traffico a causa dell’alta densità di abitanti.

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Il condominio ideale

Bucato

così il bucato lo voglio fare anche io

His and Her’s Travelers by Kirk Frameworks

Here are a pair of fillet coupled bikes for a couple that wanted complementary but not matching bikes. The paint technique is known as ‘marbleizing’ and looks to be a foot deep even in low light let alone the sun. I like how the marbleizing shows off the contours of the fillets – I put a lot of work into those fillets so like when the paint really shows them off.

Appropriation: stilisti, telaisti o filosofi?



Richard Sachs quotes Marc Jacobs

Where do ideas come from – and where do mine originate? With so much of my life spent with and around bicycles, as well as being a maker of them, I wonder about this. I arrived on the industry’s doorstep by accident and poorly prepared, and have managed to eke out nearly four decades of a career from it all. Some of it can be attributed to beginner’s luck. But those early, innocent days of the 1970s are long gone and I am not. I’m here, still enjoying the trade, the lifestyle, and all things that come with making, riding, and racing bicycles. What cards did I play right to make the cut?

Read here

Kaduna Tease & 14bikeco

Kaduna Tease from blunt films on Vimeo.

This is a quick edit of some of the footage shot in Nigeria for 14bikeco. 8 Polo players from London delivered 20 polo bikes to an equestrian resort in Kaduna Nigeria. We built the bikes and played an exhibition tournament at the 'Patrons Cup' at the Kangimi resort. More to come.

Chris Carlsson, il papà della massa critica

Critical mass: «Stavo pedalando quando mi è venuto in mente che sarebbe stato bello formare una massa compatta di ciclisti in grado di conquistarsi uno spazio di libertà nelle strade di San Francisco».

Le congiunzioni congiunte

Dario Pegoretti e 'Dazza' (Darrell Llewellyn McCulloch) intenti a progettare le loro nuove congiunzioni, ispirati da un buon rosso

Truth and Soul by Darren Crisp

Here’s another one fresh out of the fixture. Three words..fast fast fast! Some frame specs: Grade 9 aerospace-grade tubing (3Al-2.5V) - Straight-gauge seamless CWSR profiles, hand shaped from round - Crisp50 headtube, compatible with standard 1-1/8″ or 1.5″ tapered forks - Pressfit 30 bottom bracket - 22mm round chanstays, cold shaped and pressed for tire/chainring clearance - 16mm straight seatstays - Wright dropouts, Grade 5 (6Al-4V) titanium - Bike weight as built: 6.8kg

http://crisptitanium.com/blog

In Marocco con Francesco

 Francesco Gusmeri si rimette in viaggio (in bici, ovvio, e in solitaria).
Lo farà in Marocco su un percorso che si è ritagliato come sempre al di fuori di rotte e schemi turistici, una sorta di esplorazione lunga 3.000 km per 45 giorni all'interno del paese. La notizia non può che rallegrare tutti coloro — e ormai sono tanti — che conoscono Francesco come grande viaggiatore «lento» del mondo, capace di tracciare sul mappamondo tragitti fantastici, che accendono e riempiono la fantasia di chiunque: basti citarne due, Brescia-Capo Nord nel 2001 e Brescia-Melbourne nel 2007/8.

L’impresa di Maree

Maree è una ragazza australiana che si è fatta il giro dell’Australia in bicicletta. È partita il 2 luglio 2010 da Melbourne e vi è tornata tre giorni fa, dopo aver percorso 24050 km.

Ecco i fissati di 'Palemmo'

Framebuilding is simultaneously mechanical and organic

Question: I was wondering if you ever have an itch do try something out that, while it may up on your for-sale rigs, isn’t motivated by that. And yup, every one is a unique product/ moment/ shot to get it done.

Richard Sachs: thanks atmo. there is nothing i would change on my bicycle frame’s visuals.

Auto-crazia newyorkese

ciclista newyorkese, multato 50$ per non aver usato la ciclabile, si riscatta con videocomica di denuncia
(via biascagne)

How to Own a Bike. By Bill Strickland

I’ve been taking the new Pegoretti out on the lunch ride. It’s among the most beautiful of all the bikes that hang in my shop, or any I’ve ever ridden. It may be, flat-out, the most beautiful, but I have trouble, personally, naming a singular superlative in most things; it certainly is the most distinctive, the most artistic. (…) Read here

The Handmade Directory & Buyers Guide

When people talk of a handmade or custom bicycle they are more than likely referring to having the frame made for them and then choosing the components to best suit that style of the frame (and the size of their bank account). This frame will not exist until its commission.

What we are trying to do is to inform the buying public exactly what they are getting by defining the categories below. Please let us know what you think of these and if we have any glaring omissions  ( phil@thmbd.com ).

http://www.thmbd.com/The_Handmade_Bicycle_Directory.html

TMS = two-mass-skate Bicycle

The Bicycle Academy

The Bicycle Academy - Crowd Funding from The Bicycle Academy on Vimeo.

The Bicycle Academy is a new enterprise providing people with the skills and facilities to design and make their own bikes. Frame building will be taught by the legendary Brian Curtis short weekday courses. As part of the learning process each student will make a frame designed specifically for use in Africa. Once graduated students will be able to use The Bicycle Academy workshop to hone their skills and build their own frames.

www.thebicycleacademy.org

Don Walker

 My manufacturing experience starts with me being an aircraft mechanic my entire adult life. I have worked on some of the most advanced technological aircraft in the world including the United States Air Force’s B1-b, B-2 and even Navy P3 aircraft.

Don Walker+Dario Pegoretti+Sacha White=NAHBS 2010

Sacha White, Dario Pegoretti & Don Walker at NAHBS 2010 from Vuelo Velo on Vimeo.

Tiziano Zullo al lavoro sul telaio

Dromarti. Life with passion

The upper is hand made using soft high quality Italian leather, featuring beautiful stitching and perforations for ventilation. Equal attention is paid to the inside which benefit from a soft leather lining.

Imperfection is perfection

 Beato chi l'ha visto....

David Byrne Bikes @ Urban Velo

When I was a wee lass and David Byrne was fronting The Talking Heads I thought he was a big ‘ol geeky nerd and wanted nothing to do with him, but as I matured I came to appreciate his musical and cultural genius. Then add to that his involvement and promotion of bicycles and I was sold. I knew about his book The Bicycle Diaries, which is now available as an audiobook/T-shirt combo, but I wasn’t aware of so many other projects he has contributed to bike culture and city life in general. Read here

Joff Summerfield: grande fotografo, grande viaggiatore con grande bici

Paolo & Pinar

Due viaggiatori lenti. Leggi qui le loro prodezze

La trappola delle piste ciclabili by Rotafixa

Va bene, parliamo di piste ciclabili. Ogni due per tre mi chiedono cosa ne penso, e se non sia il caso di costruirne di più eccetera. Premessa: anche a me piacerebbe vivere in una Roma e in un’Italia che avessero la stessa identica attenzione di paesi come l’Olanda per la questione. In Olanda, per dire, ogni singola maledetta strada ha una ciclabile: autostrade comprese, in questo caso ben separate dal nastro dove scorrono i mostri e in qualche caso al di sotto della sede autostradale. Continua qui

Bespoked Bristol. The UK Handmade Bicycle Show 2011. The winners

2011 Competition Winners (left to right)

Enigma, Lee Cooper Custom Frames - John West Custom Paint - Alex Hatfield Concepts, Demon Frameworks, Feather cycles, Tokyo Fixed, Donhou Cycles

Dazza (Darrell Llewellyn McCulloch)

My goal at Llewellyn Custom Bicycles is to create a beautiful bicycle that gives you many years of enjoyable riding.

Il Luigino di Greg, una storia quasi commovente

Greg White è un talentuoso fotografo canadese, come vedete da questi suoi pics, e la storia della sua Luigino è la seguente.