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

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* Note:  this post has been in the can for a while.  My schedule has been very busy and I haven’t been doing much riding at all.  Anyway, here’s the highlight of my cycling year.
-Andrew
 
After enjoying myself last year in the Tour de Greenbelt, I was really looking forward to the 2009 edition.  The Newmarket ride gave [...]

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I had a foggy, misty ride up Bayview early yesterday morning.  I planned on riding further to help prep for the Tour de Greenbelt, but the fog got thicker as I went. I climbed the hill on Bayview and turned around.  The water droplets condensed on the fibres of my wool jersey and eyebrows.  I [...]

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Missing something?  On my ride home today I found a still blinking LED tail light on the sidewalk in the Leslie & 16th area of Richmond Hill.  If you think it’s yours, drop me some email.  andrew [at] monkeymartian [dot] com.  I hope you made it home okay, it was pretty overcast this evening.

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I saw via bikelovejones that Rivendell is discontinuing the venerable built-in-Japan Atlantis framesets.  Photos of this bike re-ignited my interest in cycling, and gave me a whole new appreciation of classic steel lugged bikes.  In 2005 I purchased a Rivendell Romulus that uses cantilever brakes instead of sidepulls (hence it’s known as a Canti-Rom).  I [...]

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