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Tag Archive '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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atlantis lost?

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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