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Category Archive for 'bike geekery'

style

I saw this styling bicycle for sale on Craigslist.  This is where classic ‘retro’ components, frames and carefully selected new parts can get you.  A handsome city bike, for sure. Well looky that… I saw this on the Two Serious Bikes blog a few weeks ago.  See how much stuff you can load on a low-trail [...]

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cyclofiend

I’ve added a link to a new blog connected to an “old” site that I visit once in a while:  Cyclofiend.  Of particular interest (well to me, anyway!) is the current classics gallery.  If  you like lugged steel, aluminium fenders, leather saddles and canvas bike bags have a look at the more than 700 bikes.  Yes, it’s [...]

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brookses… my precious

Via the Lazy Randonneur (and others), an illustrated article about the making of a Brooks saddle.

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attention to detail

For those of you that like classic bikes, have a look at Adam Hammond’s blog Two Serious Bikes.  He’s got quite the eye for classic bicycle styles and interesting parts.  I like bikes (duh) and classic looking bikes, but this guy is really quite picky and knows his stuff.  I’m happy if I can get parts [...]

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So it’s the dead of winter and I’m not doing much, if any riding.  This is the time of year when I daydream about bikes.  I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about what I’d like to do on a bike and fabricating reasons why my current bikes don’t fit the bill.  Something I’ve been [...]

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