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aesthetically challenged
i doubt there is a cyclist in the world whose tuesday youtube feed wasn't clogged with videos concerning the lauch of sram's eagle transmission in which anyone who is anyone appears to have received advance groupsets about which they might wax lyrical in moving pictures. it seems only fair to say that i do not come within the category of 'anyone', since i found out pretty much when everyone else did. that said, since the triumvirate of eagle launches affects solely the offroad brigade, the lack of a parcel on my welcome mat is hardly surprising.
for those who refrain from perusing the goodies available on youtube, allow me to digress every bit as much as usual.
as expected, all the eagle transmission variants (xx sl, xx, and xo) are wireless electronic, twelve-speed and feature a single front ring, pretty much de rigeur for adherents of the knobbly tyre. there's also a flat-top chain, reputedly designed to maximize shifting performance and robustness, which leaves me wondering why nobody else appears to have adopted the sculptless sideplates before now. but the piece de resistance comes in the shape and fastening method of the completely redesigned rear mech.
in the dim, distant days of yore, rear derailleurs were affixed directly to the frame via a threaded tab appended to the rear, drive-side dropout. however, the times to which i refer were populated almost exclusively by steel frames; should any damage have accrued that bent the rear gear mech and the droput tab out of shape, 'twas but a simple matter to straighten it with an adjustable spanner. if the worst came to the worst, and the tab was broken from its dropout, any competent frame builder could braze or weld a replacement for riding to continue.
however, it is many a year since steel was flavour of the week, and neither aluminium nor carbon respond well to attempted truing of a damaged derailleur mount. thus was born the replaceable gear hanger, oddly enough, more often manufactured from aluminium than more repairable steel. however, adhering to the cycle industry's total disdain for compatibility, there are, by a recent count, not far short of 1000 variants of these hangers, designed to fit the completely non-standardised shapes afforded by frame manufacturers who, it appears, could care less about any form of compatibility (even within their own ranges).
however, no matter how frustrating such devices might be, there's little doubt that they work very effectively; were they not to exist, one can but imagine the substantial numbers of otherwise perfect bicycle frames that would have had need of being discarded long before their time. other than the time taken searching several websites to find the hanger ascribed to your own bicycle, i have heard no disparaging remarks about such useful appendages. they work exactly as designed and are relatively inexpensive to buy. sram, however, seem to have taken a particular dislike, and attempted to solve a problem that didn't actually exist.
the new eagle gear mech fits, it would appear, directly into the drive-side slot usually reserved for the thru-axle, cleverly leaving threaded space for this highly necessary fitment. the bracket by which the eagle gear mech is attached to the frame effectively sandwiches the dropout between its two mounting plates, which form the dramatic part of sram's marketing strategy. the company has released a video showing the rear of the bicycle being dropped through ninety-degrees onto a hard surface to demonstrate the reputed indestructability of the mech; likely a strong sales point for the average and not so average mountain biker.
i viewed one or two review videos in which the presenters laid the bicycle on its side, before placing (in some cases) their substantial weight on the dropout mount to show its effectiveness. as i have explained on many an occasion, i hold no engineering qualifications or perspectives whatsoever, so i confess that the point made by the qualified engineer on peak torque had passed me by completely, as i imagine will be the case for the majority watching the other mentioned videos. but as he was keen to point out, should the gear mech receive a substantial clout from an otherwise immoveable object, all that energy has to go somewhere, and indeed it does. it goes into the frame itself via (in the case of a suspended mountain bike) the suspension bushings, the chainstay and any form of seatstay. more often than not, at the eagle's price point (i have seen in excess of £2,000 mentioned for the cassette, derailleur, chainset and actuators. the xx sl gear mech alone is priced in excess of £600) the frame to which it will be attached is most likely to be carbon.
i can understand why the average roadie would wonder why i provide so much pixel space to componentry that, to be quite blunt, surely doesn't affect us? at present, that is precisely the case, but cycling history should teach us that technology that begins life offroad, has a sneaky habit of inflicting itself upon the innocent road bike. if you're looking for evidence, how about a-headsets, hydraulic disc brakes, suspension etc.? and if i understood the gist of several of the videos, the tooth count on the cassette needs to be an even number on every sprocket to ensure the sort of seamless shifting sram have promised.
personally, i am unaware of any roadie who has found fault with the ubiquitous gear hanger, or indeed, anyone who has suffered damage to same. were sram to impose the same technology upon their road bike groupsets, it would surely be yet another case of an expensive solution looking for a problem. but there's one aspect of sram's new eagle derailleur that was never mentioned in any of the videos, a property that may not, in fact, impinge upon the offroad psyche...
it's as ugly as sin.
thursday 23 march 2023
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is this the future?
founded in 2005, bike charity, world bicycle relief has spent the last eighteen years providing copious numbers of its sturdy buffalo bicycles to underprivileged communities in rural africa. in regions where the word 'road' has an entirely different meaning than the one we're used to disparaging in the western world. many are the schoolchildren, health workers and owners of small businesses whose lives have been turned around by the gift of a bicycle, allowing them to travel along the aforementioned 'roads' for educational ends or to allow small rural businesses to get product to the masses or materials to the workshop.
but wherever machinery congregates, there will, at sometime or another, be the need for repair of said machinery. this is not a situation that has bypassed the operators of world bicycle relief; in fact, it has long formed an intrinsic part of their overall strategy. enabling the disadvantaged ultimately reinforces small communities, both industrially and educationally, but the need for servicing of those buffalo bicycles has allowed the charity to train thousands of mechanics capable of maintaining a nationally very large fleet of bicycles (wbr aim to have donated one million bicycles by 2025), thus providing even more employment.
across the globe, world bicycle relief employs more than 50 individuals to assemble the bicycles prior to delivery, and more than 3000 trained mechanics to service them. as the charity revealed on its website, "To ensure that Buffalo Bicycles stay on the road, we train one mechanic for every 50-100 bicycles distributed through our philanthropic programs. Our five-day training program ensures our mechanics are prepared for real-life situations. Repairs, troubleshooting, building a Buffalo Bicycle from scratch, and customer service skills - our mechanics training program covers it all."
the principle itself is simple enough, one that can be seen throughout the world in the shape of vehicle garages where car and van owners can take them for servicing, upgrading and straightforward fettling. even on islay, there are a number of car garages that specialise in offering mechanical services, entirely divorced from any desire to sell new or used vehicles. aside from necessarily benefitting the local motoring residents, rarely has a visiing motorist been left high and dry when suffering a mechanical malfeasance while on holiday. sadly, the same cannot be said for the cycling public.
though i was once in a position to offer mechanical assistance to any cyclist in distress, whether by way of a repair, or sale of a suitably-sized inner tube, current work commitments and a lack of suitable space, has meant that those days are long gone. however, islay is hardly alone in experiencing that situation. if cycle touring in the hebrides, it's advised to arrive as well-equipped as cargo space and mechanical ability will allow. there are several remote parts north and south of the border where a similar situation exists. but in the more populated areas, things might be about to become a shade more favourable, particularly, it seems, if you happen to ride an e-bike or operate an e-cargo bike.
i mentioned last year that cyclists in the netherlands already had the ability to experience the ignominy of being unable to remove either quick release skewer or thru-axle, following a visit to one of the nation's kwik-fit centres, which had expanded their services to incorporate bicycles. of course, given the prevalence of bicycle ownership and usage by the dutch, this was doubtless a particularly well-thought out commercial move. but what of bicycle-agnostic britain?
though i know not whether the dutch experience informed that of the united kingdom branch of kwik-fit, it seems that they have moved to team up with fettle to offer bicycle servicing, beginning with three of their 600 strong network. however, though there is the potential to expand the partnership beyond those initial locations In the immediate term, fettle's operations will remain separate from kwik fit with the former providing all staff, products and services for bicycle customers.
it transpires that this partnership might have been inspired by fleet operators who have begun featuring e-cargo bikes for last mile operations. according to mark slade, kwik-fit's managing director, "a growing number of our customers who operate vehicle fleets have been asking if we can support their expanding cargo bike operations. bikes and cargo bikes, especially electric models, are increasingly being used for short urban journeys. however, the fragmented nature of the industry's current network of largely independent bike shops makes it hard for manufacturers and fleet operators to secure reliable and consistent high quality servicing across their operations."
so, just in case you happen to ride one of the cargo bicycles being serviced in a kwik-fit centre, just check that you can still remove the wheel without renewing your gym membership.
wednesday 22 march 2023
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expansion
on arrival at the designated starting point for sunday morning's bike ride, the third member of the western peloton to arrive informed us that he had just been run off the road en-route to joining the happy throng. having ridden along what is locally known as the high road, a single-track highway punctuated with conveniently situated passing places, a following driver had apparently been impatient enough to pass, apparently unable to wait until the fellow reached the nearest of those passing places, driving past in any case, forcing my velocipedinal colleague to run onto the grass verge.
bearing in mind this was at 09:30 of a sunday morning in the hebrides, when nothing is open and there is no ferry for which to rush, the driver's impatience must surely be hard to justify, even for him or her.
this followed a brief, but dreich, excursion by yours truly on saturday to debbie's for the weekly double-egg roll and soya latte, midway through televised coverage of milan-sanremo. midst heavy drizzle and breezy winds, with my bright orange and fluorescent green cyclocross bicycle, outfitted with very bright flashing front and rear lights, while garbed in a fluorescent pink gilet. let's just say, i'd be hard to miss even on a dark night. yet as i grovelled my way along uiskentuie strand, with no approaching traffic in sight, a blue renault passed close enough that, had i been wearing a thicker jersey, there would have been physical contact.
i fully realise that such incidents occuring at the rate of even one a day are but grist for the mill for mainland cyclists. i'd imagine that situations such as the above probably affect a sole cyclist several times per commute, to the extent that they have become unremarkable to the point of non-comment. but if you'll pardon the supposition, that's probably in urban or inner-city areas, not the midst of the 'rural idyll'. such incidents are supposed to be almost non-existent on the outer edge. after all, this is the very island where once it was possible to buy bumper stickers that claimed 'islay - and it's goodbye to care'. now it's beginning to reach the state where that might be replaced by a similar decal stating 'cyclists - and we just don't care'.
the hebrides are supposed to be a series of locations where it's possible to leave behind the worst of the so-called rat-race, to adopt a slower, more patient demeanour behind both steering wheel and handlebars; after all, isn't that why the ferries are fully-booked at easter? it would offer some succour to the downtrodden velocipedinist were this state of affairs confined to the visiting motorist; that way we could occupy the moral high ground, safe in the knowledge that the problem would eventually subside.
unfortunately that seems not to be the case.
though i do believe the two incidents referred to above were, in fact, at the behest of visiting motorists, i would be fibbing if i were to contend that such is always the case. and that, quite frankly, is somewhat concerning. the islands of islay and jura comprise relatively small communities, jura far more than islay. and the latter is notorious as the home of the 'islay wave' an endearing trait that has local drivers and cyclists offer a friendly gesture when encountering each other on the islands' highways and byways.
though it may have once been a truism that everybody did, in fact, know everyone else, that's probably a bit less true these days. however, every island motorist is aware of the small peloton of cyclists; if they don't know us by name, they certainly know us as individuals, frequently courteous to a fault, in making every effort to get out of their way when safe to do so. it's rather sad to discover that a growing percentage seem less than concerned as to our wellbeing while we're out and about indulging in the sort of physical exercise that they are quite plainly avoiding.
based purely on anecdotal evidence from fellow cyclists and from even casual observation, the standard of driving seems to have taken a bit of a nosedive in recent years. this, of course, has to be seen in the perspective of our excellent relationship with the island's truck, bus and van drivers, the majority of whom often go above and beyond to ensure our safety on the narrowest of roads. and it should also be said that the majority of local and visiting drivers are as careful and courteous as you would hope; as in many comparable circumstances, it's the minority that cause the problem.
however, i'm somewhat aggrieved and embarrassed that such a state of affairs has extended this far.
tuesday 21 march 2023
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them and us
in 1998, a cycling friend and i headed across to northern ireland on a ferry sailing from campbeltown to ballycastle (a service that no longer exists), with the intent of riding south to dublin for the start of that particular year's tour de france. we had a rough notion of just how far the ride would be and an approximation of how long it would take, but on day two, setting off from just south of the border, the distance shown to dublin gave serious cause for concern, before realising that southern ireland measures distances in kilometres and not the miles that prevail in northern ireland.
i believe that every bar-mounted gps unit offers the opportunity for the owner to choose between miles or kilometres when first setting up the device out of the box. and though britain and the usa are still embroiled in the imperial measurement system, personally, i have always opted for kilometres, for two perfectly good reasons. firstly, as age begins to get the better of my top-line speed, telling those in the office my weekend cycling distance and, perchance, my average speed, it is far more beguiling to do so in kilometres than miles. and secondly, since virtually every cycle race broadcast on eurosport/gcn is portrayed in metric measurement, having set my garmin in similar fashion allows me to witness the substantial difference between them and us.
during the early stages of saturday's milan-sanremo race, the members of the early breakaway were shown conversing and joking with each other in a very relaxed manner. the on-screen display showed that, at the time, they were riding at 47kph, a speed of which i (and by implication, you), can only dream. yesterday's pelotonic discussion, held at a considerably lower, yet less relaxed pace, concerned whether the professional ranks were filled with riders who feature a genetic disposition towards riding at such speeds, or whether such ability is directly as a result of hours and hours of training?
though i have drastically reduced the target distance in recent years, for the first ten years of rapha's festive 500, i would arise at the crack of stupid o'clock, breakfast, then head out for around 70 or 80km, mostly on the basis that at least one day of the challenge would be lost to galeforce winds in which it would have been dangerous to ride. that would leave me seven days on which to test my mettle, not only in terms of pedalling, but in fending off the frequently unpalatable elements. and following the festive kilometres, there would then be the new year's day ride, adding yet another 65km to the total.
i cannot deny that it was usually something of a disappointment to end the sequence, just as i was beginning to get in the groove, but can't say that i noticed any increase in tenacity or average speed on my behalf, when the festivities came to an end. however, that may only prove that not only am i probably less than genetically favoured in the velocipedinal stakes, but there's a better than evens chance that my physique is highly resistant to training. of course, it may also point to the efficacy of modern training and nutritional techniques, as opposed to fausto coppi's "ride a bike, ride a bike and ride a bike", which is essentially all that i, or many others, are achieving.
and as if we hadn't already learned enough from milan-sanremo, the revelation that wout van aert was not only riding with a single front chainring, but that said chainring allegedly featured 52 teeth, pretty much put everything in a much closer perspective. though msr is relatively flat for the bulk of its parcours, the cipressa and the poggio are usually the two gradients where the final selection is made. opting to risk both on a 52 chainring surely demonstrates not only wout's great faith in his abilities, but surely puts us mere mortals very firmly in our place. granted, van aert was not victorious on saturday, but i doubt that was entirely the fault of the size of his single chainring.
though things may have changed over the years, ostensibly the average, reasonably wealthy cycling fan still has the opportunity to replicate the equipment used by his or her favoured rider. jumbo visma sell replica team kit, while cervelo will be more than happy to relieve you of a considerable sum to ride a bike just like wout's. i believe the same can be said for mathieu's canyon, ganna's pinarello, or fourth-placed tadej's colnago v4rs.
there is, of course parallels to be seen elsewhere. for instance, i own a snare drum that features a remarkably similar spec to that of vinnie colaiuta. but, unfortunately, i still sound like me.
monday 20 march 2023
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how long has this been going on?
when i was considerably younger than i am today, i always found it very disappointing to discover that the 'monumental sculptors' whose signs usually appeared close to cemeteries, were just the same size as every other adult at the time. there was, disappointingly, nothing moumental about them. however, it would be a naive and entirely unforgiving person who disputed the apellation of the word 'monument' to yesterday's milan-sanremo. with a distance of 294km and a ride time of well over six hours, and at speeds most of us would struggle to achieve on a steep downhill with a galeforce tailwind, well does it deserve its nomination as the first 'monument' of the year.
however, the length of the parcours seems to give rise to incomprehension on behalf of those less well-versed in the art of road racing. not for the first time have i heard it suggested that races of such length are boring and/or pointless. in fact, in one of the pre-race interviews prior to yesterday's event, i heard one participant refer to his team-mate's contention that the race is, indeed, boring. certainly, in excess of six hours racing would require a fairly steady attention span, not only on behalf of the riders, but from those of us with our eyes glued to eurosport/gcn.
unlike the riders charged with competing in the race, who are prevented from taking a mid-race break in a nearby café, eurosport/gcn's commentary team consisted, by my counting, of five individuals, none of whom were required to go the full distance; and at least three of them were former professional bike riders. though i don't envy them the need to be creative during the early stages of milan-sanremo, when, to be honest, very little actually occurs, you would perhaps be forgiven for thinking it an easier ride (so to speak), to sit in a commentary booth for over six hours, than to be in the saddle for a similar time, while expending a great deal more effort (carlton kirby excepted, of course).
but amongst the great unwashed, i have been asked on several occasions, why they don't simply start from 25 or 30 kilometres from the finish and simply race to the line. the implication, erroneous or otherwise, is that the same favourites are as likely to stand on the podium after the shorter distance than over a race distance ten times as long. though their contention may actually prove to be true, i fear the start list would have to be considerably shorter to avoid absolute chaos as every team member felt capable of adding to their trophy cabinet. maybe it would be a great idea, at some time or other, to give it a try?
however, at race speeds, a 30km race would take little over half an hour, scarcely enough time for the phalanx of team sponsors to gain their much-prized airtime, and very much to the detriment of the televisual experience. the fact that major events such as milan-sanremo feature extensive coverage from helicopter cameras, means that, aside from being a cycling spectacle, the race provides a cultural appreciation of whatever part of italy the helicopter happens to be. aside from the wide variation in vintage and contemporary architecture, the pace of the event in the early hours, affords plenty of time for a flyover of many ancient and, quite frankly, beautiful old buildings, the majority of which featured on-screen descriptions, attesting not only to italy's turbulent and religious past, but for just how many years that has been the case.
though i confess i wasn't taking notes, from memory, the notable historical aspects stretched from pre-1000ad, all the way to the early part of the 20th century, if nothing else, demonstrating the cultural and architectural aesthetics of the past that it would be very hard to equal in modern times.
i agree that such diversions are not intrinsic to the competition unfolding on the roads below, but it is often the backdrop which lends not only a national flavour to the event, but is every bit as important in imbuing the race with its character as have been the competitors both past and present. and to be honest, cycle racing must be one of the few televised sports that have the ability to do so. europe, comprised as it is of so many different nations, has experienced a past that is surely unequalled anywhere in the world, and although those experiences can be taught in the classroom, to see them in a setting such as milan-sanremo, places an altogether different aspect on not only cycling's rich heritage, but that of its various locations.
if we bowed to the non-believers, and restricted the racing to a mere handful of kilometres, it's entirely possible that the record books would look pretty much the same as they do now. but imagine all that would be lost in the process.
sunday 19 march 2023
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day to day
we are, it's fair to say, not that far from this year's fèis ìle, commencing on the last weekend of may. this will be of great delight to many of the world's whisky aficionados, with the potential to add to their exclusive collections of exclusive festival bottlings. in order to capitalise on the planetary interest in such expressions, it had, at one time, become possible to acquire said bottles via the interwebs, something of a godsend for those unable to make their way to the hallowed isle.
as you may understand, this worldwide availability had a tendency to rankle with the great and good who had been successful in setting foot on islay's shores during the designated week. therefore, in order to head off the naysayers at the pass, several distilleries have taken to offering two or more festival bottlings, available with various limitations, and at least one of which can only be acquired during a personal visit to the distillery of choice during the festival. exclusivity at its best.
hopefully in common with many (because i'd hate to be alone), i have an annoying habit of opening e-mails and failing to close them down after they have been read. thus, when navigating the embarrassingly large number of application windows open on my macbook air, it's all but impossible to see the metaphorical wood for the trees. however, this technological bad habit, it would appear, has its upsides, when unexpected discoveries can be realised, one of which pertains to this year's national record store day to which 260 national retail outlets have apparently signed up.
this unexpected discovery, however, brings with it potential and unheralded difficulties, the principal of which is the complete lack of any record stores on the island, and possibly any closer than glasgow. this promises serious dismay, for it transpires that one of those open e-mails depicted the album cover of a record store day release due from gearbox records. featuring ramon morris, andy bey, isao suzuki and junior cook, the release is entitled 'art blakey and the jazz messengers at the jazz workshop 1970'. it will surprise you not that i simply have to acquire a vinyl copy of this album.
and yes, i'm as much of a luddite when it comes to recorded media as i am with regard to bicycles.
national record store day in the uk, will take place on saturday 22 april, and it is my fervent hope that there will be a record store somewhere, that will be willing to pay lip service to contemporary life, and post me out a copy. even though, i believe, the whole point of record store day is to attract personal visits to said record stores. with luck, one of the aforementioned will take pity on a stranded islander. i daresay it is possible that this art blakey album will eventually also appear on streaming platforms, if only to allow the record company to partake of increased revenue, but like i said, it has to be vinyl.
entirely coincidentally, i'm sure, a matter of seven days later, comes the 2023 incarnation of britain's local bike shop day, an event that parallels that of record store day in that neither are there any bike shops on islay. curated by the association of cycle traders, according to the dedicated website, 'Local Bike Shop Day is the one day a year when independent bike shops across the UK can come together to celebrate their distinctive culture. It's the day for local bike shops to showcase their passion, knowledge and personalised service they offer to their local communities.' quite how that is achieved, i'm afraid i'm unable to say, never having visited a bike shop (local or otherwise) on the specified day.
however, given the number of cycle and component manufacturers who have recently adopted a customer direct approach, effectively missing out the tangible joy of visiting a bike shop, local bike shop day is surely one that all those within walking or cycling distance ought to participate and celebrate? but it occurs to me that, rather than simply paying lip service to the importance of local bike shops, cycle, component and apparel manufacturers could place their money where their mouths are, producing items for sale only via said bike stores and not available through any other channels of distribution. just like islay's distilleries and record companies.
given very recent history, perhaps colnago could prepare an exclusive tom boonen version of the v4rs, or campagnolo could offer a box set of their purportedly new wireless super-record groupset, but featuring the downshift buttons that have reputedly been omitted. or maybe rapha could release a black, white and pink sportwool jersey.
because, like many an annual velocipedinal event, this one seems to offer little in the way of incentive to the ordinary cyclist in the street.
sound familiar?
local bike shop day | record store day | islay festival
saturday 18 march 2023
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the boys are back in town
2004 saw a reversal of the visual strategy employed in the movie 'the wizard of oz', where the early monochrome scenes introducing dorothy and toto and the tornado that brought them to the land of oz, subsequently morphed into full colour. cycling apparel prior to that point had often languished in a luxuriance of colour, sometimes arguably overly so. however, rather than such colour being employed in the service of visibility, more often than not it was either at the behest of replica team clothing, or as a long-lost hangover from the late sixties. that was essentially the situation that faced rapha founder, simon mottram, when searching for cycling apparel in which he'd be comfortable riding his bicycle.
i realise we've been over this particular piece of ground more often than is seemly in polite company, but bear with me while i digress from the point i hope to make.
many of us belong to the make-do culture; we might well have faced similar circumstances to those of mr mottram in the early part of the 21st century, but the majority - and i include myself within that category - are more than likely simply to settle for what's affordable, what's available, and what we think we could get away with in the sunday morning peloton. unfortunately, like the sort of itch experienced behind a plaster cast that is all but impossible to scratch, despite being clad in a make-do jersey, with quarter-zip and three rear pockets, there's that nagging thought that it could not only be better, but, perchance, a tad more stylish.
despite cycling's history portraying the sport as that of the hardman, estranged from the finer aspects of daily life, a more than modest proportion of the sunday peloton are avowed to adhere to more aesthetic concerns. as i have quoted to the point of obsession, in his book one more kilometre and we're in the showers, author tim hilton contends that there is a higher than average percentage of designers, artists and aesthetes who follow the way of bendy bars and skinny wheels. and those artistic pretensions need to be satisfied, even when in the saddle.
thus, mr mottram, predicated by his apparent adherence to the concept of pain and suffering, was inspired by the greats of the fifties and sixties when opting to bypass mediocrity and bring his own perceptions to market, convinced that the rest of us would be similarly enthused by his apparent revelations. as it transpires, that's almost exactly what happened, with rapha sliding into home base almost un-noticed. when first i came across the original classic jersey, featuring the now iconic hoop on the left sleeve, as one who thought himself more than well-acquainted with the world of cycling garmentage, i couldn't understand how i'd never previously heard of them.
it's a situation that scarcely applied solely to myself. simon once told me that, on release of that first sportwool jersey, he received a phone call from a gent who claimed to have been a long-time fan of the brand, and was most encouraged to see rapha products available in the uk.
rapha's black, white and pink world may have been appraised as something of a velocipedinal revelation at the time, but it also became one that was frequently lampooned. there was once a spoof american website, also constrained to simple black and white, which took a humorous, yet well-aimed satirical shot at what we once lovingly referred to as imperial works. rapha subsequently reprinted the book kings of pain from which mr mottram had taken his inspiration for the monochrome viewpoint, the very book he presented to photographer, ben ingham, to have his vision translated into a comprehensive marketing coup. (not for nothing had mr mottram been a brand consultant prior to his life with bicycles).
but, as the saying goes, all good things come to an end.
depending on your point of view, things probably changed for the worst when rapha became clothing sponsors of team sky. at this point, the rapha website altered from predominantly black, white and pink to black and blue. i was once moved to contact former rapha north american manager, slate olson, to helpfully point out that rapha's website resembled little more than an offshoot of the satellite tv behemoth, portraying more black and blue than black white and pink. by comparison, the sky tv website sported not a single reference to rapha by way of compensation.
while rapha's own pro-continental rapha-condor race team had been happy to espouse the virtues of sportwool within the peloton, world tour riders were apparently considerably more demanding; nothing less than skintight polyester and lycra would suffice, materials that subsequently dominated rapha's catalogue. in the process, they attracted several often dubious colour choices, many resembling the sort of tie-dyes, once again reminiscent of the late sixties. having previously curated world acceptance for the delights of monochrome with a hint of pink, rapha had become the epitomy of part two of the wizard of oz.
full circle.
if you wonder from whence has come this monochromatic burst of nostalgia, i can but admit that it has been the subject of recent pelotonic conversation, particularly from those of us old enough to recall the halcyon days of yore, of pain, suffering and a pink sofa in kentish town. in short, we yearn for the perceived simplicity of those bygone days, convinced that rapha may have lost their way, becoming an integral part of the establishment they once sought to undermine (or enhance).
early rapha ads in the once-aspiring rouleur magazine, identified them as a company in tune with their intended customer base: cleat equipped leather brogues and the campagnolo peanut butter spanner.
do not mistake my critique; the renamed rapha works is still a purveyor of quality (if expensive) cycling apparel, but a common opinion amongst the self-styled cognoscenti was that rapha, as a brand, had lost its way along the parcours.
but all may not be lost. i believe the advert reproduced here, one that appears on the back page of the recently reviewed superstore wilderness may indicate that reports of the demise of pain and suffering may have been premature.
kings of pain once again.
friday 17 march 2023
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made it
when i arrived on the hebridean island of islay, there existed an organisation identified by the acronym i&jcvs, letters that signified the islay and jura council for voluntary services. the organisation existed to provide services to the almost endless number of voluntary organisations constituted across the two islands. at one time, the latter were thought to comprise the largest number in any rural island community anywhere in scotland, based purely on the number of advertisements for annual general meetings.
however, the i&jcvs was also the founder of the island's local newspaper, originally setup in 1973 to serve as a means of disseminating news and information across both islands. one of the items that featured on an annual basis was, effectively, a hebridean retail price index. having chosen a staple number of items available in the local averagemarket, an employee of the cvs would peruse the shelves and aisles of said retail outlet, taking note of item prices. year-on-year, it was possible to compare prices, to better understand how one's income might fare against static, rising or decreasing prices of so-called essential items.
though i have frequently thought of reinstating this feature, to date, i have yet to do so.
this rudimentary system replicates in a smaller way, the economic nous of the office of national statistics, who regularly compare the prices of a hypothetical national shopping basket. in the case of the ons, however, the breadth of its investigations are spread a tad further than food retail. their basket is theoretically filled with 700 items, which are constantly reviewed to ensure their relevance to actual life. according to the ons, these are "representative of the goods and services on which consumers typically spend their money."
in what seems indicative of modern society, three notable items have found themselves discarded from the basket. non-chart compact discs, compact digital cameras and 'alcopops'. these are no longer considered to be an intrinsic part of contemporary life. however, in a sign that cycling might conceivably have gained greater import in the modern-day lexicon and become a subject of financial largesse, the office of national statistics has seen fit to include the ubiquitous e-bike, even as some corners have queried whether the majority of the uk population actually understands just what an e-bike is.
however, the clincher that makes less sense than might otherwise appear, is a quote from ons director of prices transformation (?), mike hardie. justifying why the e-bike has joined the merry throng, he reputedly said, "With many people looking to reduce their impact on the environment, we have also introduced e-bikes, the popularity of which has risen significantly in recent years.".
though i believe that the analogue bicycle has regularly featured as one of the 700, is why the gentleman from the office for national statistics regards the e-bike is seen as every bit as environmentally sound as a regular bike? for starters, it's a mode of transport that, by its very definition, requires regular charging with electricity. and currently (pun intended), there is no way of ensuring that electricity will always be sourced from renewable sources. secondly, every e-bike of which i'm aware is powered by a lithium-ion battery, an item that will not only require an expensive replacement at some point in its career, but some safe means of disposal. and then again, taking a closer look at the sourcing of lithium would hardly be viewed with green tinted lenses.
there may be more individuals acquiring e-bikes than regular bikes these days, but i would seriously question whether they're doing so for environmental reasons. and if the 'basket of goods and services' is intended to bear some relevance to contemporary life, why has the e-bike not been joined in that basket by peloton memberships, zwift subscriptions, and smart turbo trainers. those all use electricity too.
gary numan was right to question whether friends are electric.
thursday 15 march 2023
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the monuments. updated second edition. the grit and the glory of cycling's greatest one-day races. peter cossins. bloomsbury publishing paperback. 441pp illus. £15.99
bloomsbury first published peter cossins' 'the monuments' a scarcely credible nine years ago. to me, and possibly mr cossins, it seems like only yesterday. but it is the nature of every sport to find a new audience, account of which is surely the responsibility of every self-respecting author, a happy situation that has brought to book an updated version of 'the monuments' only days before milan-sanremo. and since this updated edition is every bit as good, if not better, than the original, i have opted to reprise my original 2014 review below. if there is any justice in this velocipedinal world, no-one will be allowed to buy a new bike before proving ownership of a copy of 'the monuments'.
if you missed it first time round, do not, under any circumstances, miss it this time. the word 'essential' is one arguably overused (by me in particular), but this time, i really mean it.
the uci's globalisation of the sport of cycling is, at best, somewhat misguided. with the advent of the pro-tour and subsequently the world tour series, distinctly non-traditional cycling nations have been brought into the fold. this in itself is hardly an iniquitous situation, for who are we in the western world to deny the rest of the globe, participation in what many of us regard as 'the beautiful sport'? however, many of the more recent innovations in this respect, such as the tour of china, the tour of qatar and the like, have been imposed upon the international racing calendar as part of a series in which pro-tour teams are required to participate even though their sponsors may have no commercial interests in those countries.
the downside of this imposition from on high is the loss or downgrading of many classic european races which have lost the commercial sponsorship necessary to continue. these losses most often have occurred at the hands of a governing body which has often seemed to care a tad more for its coffers than for the good of the sport. if several of these long-standing one day races and multi-day tours have been effectively de-listed, there is no compulsion for the world tour teams to take part. with an already overfull calendar of often conflicting race dates, this means that if the world's top riders are no longer entered for such events, potential race sponsors no longer see the likelihood of a return on their investment.
hence the loss of so many.
as peter cossins demonstrates in this superb and substantial book (almost a monument of its own), more than one of what are now regarded as the monuments of cycling's one-day classics, took several years to become firmly established, unaided by a governing body that could make participation compulsory in even a brand new event. the saying 'water always finds its own level' is particularly pertinent in most of these cases. nowadays water is being pumped to whatever level the offices of aigle dictate.
so well researched are these historical narratives of liege-bastogne-liege, paris-roubaix, the tour of lombardy, milan-sanremo and the tour of flanders, that i'm sure mr cossins knows the ins and outs of modern cycling politics far better than i. which is why it was something of a surprise to read in his epilogue to the monuments that "The thinking behind this season-long series, which used Formula 1 as a template, was sound". i'd be inclined to counter that the preceding 365 pages were proof of quite the opposite. he does then go on to say "Yet the Monuments have lost some of their status by being lumped in with lesser events from a points-winning perspective".
'la doyenne', the longest surviving one-day classic, and undoubtedly my favoured second behind paris-roubaix, commenced its long career in 1892. its entry into the cycling firmament was not, as the author is keen to point out, a straightforward affair. "Thanks in part to the desire of French bike manufacturers to establish new markets beyond their borders, the first edition of the Tour of Flanders took place in 1913, by which point Liege had also re-emerged, though rather shakily."
by this, cossins is referring to an amalgamation of the 'peasant club liegeois with the liege cyclists' union in 1908 to relaunch the race as an amateur event. paris-roubaix though undoubtedly also suffering the ravages of time and occasionally the tarmacing of many of its cobbled sections, came into being in 1896, predominantly as a means of raising the profile of roubaix and its new velodrome built and owned by textile magnates, the perez brothers. they even attempted to position it as a preceding training event for the longer and arguably more demanding bordeaux-paris.
the reasons for starting what we now refer to as the monuments are varied, though frequently involved newspaper sales and rivalry somewhere along the line, commercial interests that inevitably shaped each event in different yet similar fashion, but ensuring a depth of feeling that contrived to ensure their success in the face of often trying circumstances. in those days, there was no overall loading of the dice (so to speak).
"That plush enclave in the tiny principality of Monaco had been connected to the railway in 1868. Ten years later, it boasted one of the grandest casinos in the world. In 1905, Sanremo hit back with the opening of its own Casino Municipio, a magnificent Liberty-style building that still dominates the western end of the town. Yet tourists, and particularly those from Britain, still favoured the French end of the Riviera." thus, one year later, several with commercial interests in the town met to discuss the possibility of a single event that would give sanremo the profile they and their money felt it deserved.
it would be counter-productive, i believe to list the birth marks of each of the monuments that form the contents of this marvellous book. peter cossins is a far better narrator than i, having turned what must be years of research into a treasure trove for the committed cycling fan. each race has its territory marked out during the introductions, followed by a historical account of its life to date. not unexpectedly, this involves many of the great riders and rides of this and last century. that cossins has refrained from making this a series of critical essays on the fortunes of each monument plays well to his favour. subjectivity is left at the start-line allowing us to wallow in the magnificent part each has played in cycling lore.
the races read in order of their inception, but in a self-contained manner, they can be read in whichever order the reader so desires. it is, in truth a most amicable format, one that is by turn intriguing, informative and a pleasure to devour. and though i have often been led to disparage one or other aspect of the recent crop of cycling book covers, the monuments makes up for pretty much all of them, depicting as it does a style reminiscent of british rail posters from the 1920s (a facet continued on the cover of the updated edition.)
with a comprehensive index at the back of the book accompanied by a list of each and every winner of each and every monument up until 2022, this is a book that truly ought to be a compulsory purchase for anyone with a drop-bar bicycle in the shed. with the uci seemingly hellbent on spreading the word in ever wider and thinner fashion, it is heartening to read of the european backbone of the sport, even if read with rose-tinted oakleys when races survived and prospered by their own merit and tenacity.
did i just say that out loud?
the updated second edition of 'the monuments' by peter cossins is published by bloomsbury on thursday 16 march.
wednesday 14 march 2023
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disconnected
today's digression has tendentious local relevance purely on the basis that this coming saturday, i will be attending the opera. but rather than the latter consisting of elaborate stage-sets, flamboyant costumes and an orchestra comprising top-flight classical musicians under the baton of a celebrity conductor, this will be a more low-key affair. scottish national opera's opera highlights last visited the island in 2018, prior to the covid pandemic that prevented subsequent visits.
these highlights performances generally consist of four singers (two male, two female) and a pianist, presenting a narrative that inludes material from several well-known and lesser-known operas. it has previously made for an excellent evening's entertainment, and i see no reason why that will not frame this week's event. meanwhile, south of the border, the english national opera is breathing a tad more easily on learning that its arts council grant will no longer be reduced to zero; at least, not this year.
the government-funded arts council had informed eno in november last year that it could kiss bye-bye to its annual £12.6m grant. this news was tempered by the addendum to said drastic cut, by informing that this would be replaced by the greater amount of £17million, receivable only if they relocated from their london base to somewhere farther north. that rather draconian situation has been temporarily lifted during a "one year reprieve", but the opera company insists that the current deal leaves a 'huge amount of uncertainty'.
the insistence that the eno move north was constituted as part of westminster's pretty much non-existent levelling up strategy.
there have been many reasoned arguments put forward over the years, questioning the level of subsidy afforded certain arts sectors, while others languish at the behest of their own, generated income. most of us would think it highly unnecessary to offer government funding to rock and pop bands, given the often lucrative popularity of the genre. others have queried why so much money is laid at the doors of classical orchestras and, indeed, opera, when similar minority genres, such as jazz, survive with only a fraction of such funding or, in many cases, no funding whatsoever?
and to move the debate just a few steps to one side, though central government is responsible for piling billions into road and rail services, there still remains indignant outcry that any funding is apportioned to cycle facilities. and these outcries have persisted, even when climate change pressures and realisations have indicated that cycling might potentially prove more effective than the much-troubled hs2 rail project, for instance. there seems to have been little placed in the way of transport london's elizabeth line, an underground route that ostensibly serves only the population of london residents, yet cost around £20billion.
and in direct contradiction of the ultimatum presented to english national opera, demanding a northerly shift in proceedings, already this week, westminster has announced its decision to cut active travel funding, but only that applicable outside london. yet again, a move that would appear to undermine any pretence of really attempting any sort of levelling up. though perhaps not the best comparison, the seriously delayed and much criticised choice not to complete the dualling of scotland's a9 northerly route (a choice admittedly made by holyrood, not westminster), was originally expected to cost £3billion, a figure equalled by westminster's alleged spending on active travel across englandshire. however, westminster's £3billion is stretched over the five years of the current parliamentary period.
and while we're bandying around large numbers, let me just mention that the hs2 rail project has already exceeded £100billion and unlikely to achieve much of what it originally set out to do. ahead of the upcoming budget, the government declined to place a figure on the active travel cut, but sustrans expect it to be around £200million. that makes even less sense if you believe that active travel contributed £36.5billion to the uk economy in 2021.
despite the above paragraphs, numbers are very much not 'my thing'. but it seems remarkably disappointing, to say the least, to hurtle headlong into a climate change that has already brought a commitment to phase out petrol and diesel engined cars within the next seven years, by undermining proposed travel facilities to assist with britain's reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and any efforts to have the population improve their physical and mental wellbeing.
the best conclusion at which to arrive from this latest governmental inconsistency, is that there is no overarching definition of what constitutes minority or majority interests, nor any means of making independent assessments as to their relative merit. however, i think it safe to consider that, sitting less than pecefully under the minority heading, is cycling. and by this i refer to cycling as transport; cycle-sport can probably (and will probably have to) take care of itself.
tuesday 14 march 2023
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- velobici ride 't'
- prendas air tunnel gloves and overshoes
- bbb mistralshield windproof jacket
- capo padrone thermal jacket
- cafe du cycliste yolande long sleeve jersey
- vulpine clothing's nick hussey, softshell jacket and merino jersey
- dromarti la grande 2 mitt
- rapha sleeveless pro team base layer
- craft active rain jacket
- vulpine epic cotton rain jacket
- rapha grand tour shoes
- de feet yellow wool gloves
- mavic hc h2o waterproof jacket
- solo retro tec jersey and armwarmers
- rapha lightweight sportwool jersey
- cervo rosso strada doppio 2.0 jacket
- rapha classic bibshorts
- rapha etape act two jersey 2012
- showers pass double century ex waterproof jacket
- endura urban range polo shirt, stretch trousers and argyle socks
- velobici van dapper road jersey and shorts
- vulpine merino polo shirt
- cervo rosso corsa s3 jersey
- showers pass skyline softshell jacket
- endura bowmore single malt s/s cycle jersey
- rapha hardshell waterproof jacket
- prendas winter hat
- vulpine long sleeve t-shirt
- le col b3 winter jacket and bibtights
- carbonaut breakaway jersey
- vulpine long-sleeve polo shirt
- vulpine lightweight harrington jacket and tailored trousers
- glacier cyclocross gloves
- prendas primaloft winter socks
- solo winter jacket, merino baselayer and merino collar
- prendas cordura oversocks
- cervo rosso ibrido jacket
- route clothing t-shirts
- cafe du cycliste, marie josette s/s jersey
- rapha team sky winter cap
- rapha s/s trade team jersey
- this is...cambridge merino cap
- prendas leisure jacket
- rapha bordeaux-paris jersey
- castelli gabba jersey & nano-flex armwarmers
- castelli gabba jersey & nano-flex armwarmers when wet
- solo kilmory jersey
- vulpine merino alpine jersey
- vulpine button merino jersey
- cafe du cycliste henriette s/s jersey
- rapha/raeburn windjacket
- cafe du cycliste cotton cycling cap
- rapha teamsky kids' wiggo jersey
- condor extreme polka dot socks
- rapha transfer trousers
- dmt marathon 2.0 offroad shoes
- cafe du cycliste loulou armwarmers
- prendas super-roubaix gloves
- aldi l/s winter jersey
- endura adrenaline race cape
- fred perry bradley wiggins range track jacket & merino sweater
- endura jetstream l/s jersey
- endura equipe exo waterproof gloves
- vulpine epic cotton raintrousers
- prendas aquatex overshoes
- showerspass outdry waterproof gloves
- castelli nan-flex bibknickers
- this is cambridge blood, sweat & gears cap
- rapha merino mesh l/s baselayer
- solo 3/4 thermal bibshorts
- rapha winter glove system
- shutt winter performance jacket
- rapha winter socks 2013
- endura luminite waterproof jacket
- rapha city riding merino gilet
- look mum no hands podium boxer shorts
- rapha transfer jacket
- shutt vr ltd edition tweed cap
- look mum no hands headwear
- cafe du cycliste heidi jacket
- showers pass crosspoint windgloves
- claret vulpine softshell gilet
- hackney gt alpine green long sleeve cycle jacket
- kora shola yakswool l/s baselayer
- this is cambridge urban sprinter cap
- showers pass crosspoint waterproof socks
- rapha & raeburn l/s henley and quilted jacket
- meccanica off-bike clothing
- vulpine/oliver spencer blazer
- rapha trade team jerseys
- endura movistar replica team kit
- tribesports gent's cycle jersey
- showers pass elite pro jacket
- endura movistar team replica l/s jersey
- stolen goat ltd ed. fausto coppi t-shirt
- lecol pro s/s jersey and bibshorts
- bits and bobs from prendas ciclismo
- rapha lapelled jacket and s/s polo shirt
- proviz nightrider jacket and waterproof trousers
- rapha commemorative pantani jersey
- tic panache fluoro dots cycling cap
- cafe du cycliste antoinette bibshorts and baselayer
- ardbeg's new retro jersey
- rapha king of pain jersey
- this is cambridge sunflower tdf cap
- santini peugeot retro bibshorts
- rapha climbers jersey
- endura equipe infiniti bibshorts and helios comp jersey
- vulpine ultralight quilted thermal jacket
- proviz reflect360 waterproof jacket
- vulpine dogtooth merino silk socks
- rapha deep winter hat
- rapha long pro team socks and merino stripe socks
- this is cambridge grimpeur cap
- rapha reversible city riding jacket
- rapha crew neck merino t-shirt
- cucu barcelona s/s jersey
- prendas ciclismo leisure polo shirt
- rapha pro team bibtights with pad
- endura stealth-lite 2 waterproof bib-tights
- le col rain jacket
- hackney gt alpine bobble hat
- showers pass skyline winter cap
- rapha city range merino button shirt
- isadore merino gloves
- castelli alpha jacket
- this is cambridge omloop winter cap
- showers pass bodymapped baselayer
- mavic cosmic wind jacket
- velobici merino ribbed collar and white tip merino gloves
- rapha pro team softshell
- cervo rosso strada 2.0 l/s jersey
- portland design works 'cross beanie
- prendas de vlaeminck t-shirt
- hoy vulpine jersey and shorts
- rapha softshell baselayer
- rapha data print pro-team jersey
- ashmei softshell jacket
- ashmei merino/carbon s/s jersey
- rapha 2015 trade team jerseys
- vulpine gill waterproof jacket
- endura classics jersey
- café du cycliste louise s/s jersey
- rapha cima coppi s/s jersey, essentials case and cap
- house industries merino vélo jersey
- this is cambridge tom s/s jersey cap and socks
- milltag top bonk schleppers jersey and cap
- showers pass torch socks
- fat lad at the back lanterne rouge l/s jersey
- this is cambridge panache confortare cap
- wonderful socks
- ashmei bibshorts
- santini team z s/s jersey & bibshorts
- the athletic socks, jersey and cap
- prendas super roubaix fluoro gloves
- prendas aqua light fluoro overshoes
- le col hc s/s jersey
- rapha tom simpson jersey and cap
- prendas santini peugeot mashup t-shirt
- rapha long-sleeve club jersey
- showers pass cascade track pants
- rapha thermal classic bibshorts
- vulpine thermal gilet
- rapha cyclocross l/s jersey, cap and socks
- aldi l/s jersey, tights and socks
- showers pass bamboo/merino henley sport
- rapha lombardia l/s jersey and socks
- this is cambridge 1-in-7 cap
- rapha pro team gloves
- aldi l/s merino baselayer
- hoy vulpine winter bib tights
- proviz pixelite softshell race jacket
- rapha loopback trousers
- rapha cotton twill city riding trousers
- prendas aqualight gloves
- showers pass little crossover kids' rainjacket
- endura freezing point overshoes
- red dots scottish winter cycling cap
- svelte clothing s/s jersey and classic bibshorts
- this is cambridge waxed cotton cycling cap
- cafe du cycliste charlotte softshell jacket, jeanna rain bibshorts and lolou legwarmers
- mavic ksyrium pro thermo kit
- vulpine softshell gloves
- this is cambridge pink omloop winter cap
- rivelo winnats bibtights, langcliffe waterproof jacket and symonds winter gloves
- svelte long-sleeve heritage jersey
- rapha merino winter collar
- rapha pro team softshell 2015
- showers pass spring classics waterproof jacket
- rapha shadow jersey and bibshorts
- endura fs260-pro sl thermal windproof jacket
- rapha core s/s jersey & bibshorts
- rapha brevet thermal gilet
- rapha classic jersey ii
- velobici continental l/s jersey
- rapha brevet bibshorts
- svelte l/s merino baselayer
- osloh crank trousers
- rapha city riding wool jacket
- rapha brevet windblock jersey
- castelli perfetto s/s weatherproof jersey
- la passione bibshorts, legwarmers and l/s winter jersey
- snek winter cap
- lumo herne hill harrington jacket
- john smedley merino jig sweater and merino hugh sweater
- rapha 'rivals' merino cycle jersey
- galibier velo ultimate foul weather gilet
- rivelo s/s peaslake jersey and homister bibshorts
- la passione pdp summer jersey
- prendas ciclismo 20th anniversary s/s jersey
- this is cambridge hors categorie s/s cycle jersey, socks & cap
- rapha pro team windjacket
- hilltrek greenspot double ventile jacket
- magliamo merino wool molteni l/s jersey
- rapha shadow armwarmers + kneewarmers
- n+1 cycling t-shirts
- rapha core l/s team wiggins jersey
- showers pass club shoe covers
- vulpine urban cycling jeans & merino boxers
- rapha cyclocross long-sleeve jersey
- rapha mips helmet
- shutt vuelta winter jacket
- rapha merino stand collar windproof jersey
- this is cambridge s/s baselayer
- hilltrek greenspot double ventile jacket - getting it wet
- endura pro sl bibtights
- rapha commemorative peace race jersey and game
- cafe du cycliste lucette gilet
- specialized deflect reflect hybrid jacket
- rapha classic winter jacket
- cafe du cycliste mid-season gloves
- wabi woolens winter weight jersey
- rapha shadow long-sleeve jersey
- rapha festive 500 jersey and core range waterproof jacket
- dexshell biking socks
- rapha brevet thermal jacket
- dexshell thermfit neo gloves
- maratona classics jersey
- rapha classic bibshorts ii
- endura pro sl bibs ii
- rapha shadow blazer
- showers pass atlas reflective jacket
- rapha pro team bibshorts ii
- rouleur + velominati rule#5 s/s jersey, bibshorts, socks and t-shirt
- rapha packable backpack
- louison bobet softshell gloves
- louison bobet bibshorts, long-sleeve and short-sleeve jerseys
- t-labs stelvio t-shirt
- rapha fausto coppi merino jersey
- velobici premgripp and merino socks
- rapha pro-team lightweight gilet
- louison bobet porticcio 69 merino pullover and letouquet74 merino cardigan
- cafe du cycliste boubou collection zahira diamant s/s jersey
- rapha classic crochet mitts
- rapha lines pro team flyweight jersey
- shutt vr custom jersey and pro bibshorts
- arrivee intermediate l/s jersey
- hilltrek greenspot single ventile lightweight jacket
- snek merino armwarmers and lightwieght merino cycling cap
- rocket espresso s/s jersey and bibshorts
- endura movistar team issue gilet and l/s jersey
- this is cambridge men's bibshorts
- rapha colombia kom s/s sportwool jersey
- new ardbeg celtic cycle jersey
- assos r.s. sturmprinz evo waterproof jacket
- this is cambridge a bloc long-sleeve jersey and socks
- hilltrek greenspot single ventile jacket - getting it wet
- snek merino kneewarmers
- rapha ultramarine pro team softshell
- endura pro sl thermal jacket
- rapha city riding range insulated sweatshirt
- endura pro sl thermal jacket
- assos habutightsmille thermal bibtights
- rapha pro team thermal l/s baselayer
- rapha classic rainjacket ii
- giessegi redoute winter bibtights
- t-labs road riding t-shirt
- rapha pro-team insulated jacket
- rapha quarter zip reflective knit jersey
- showerspass trailhead merino/bamboo hooded sweatshirt
- pedal ed nachi waterproof jacket
- pedal ed essential jersey and team winter bibtights
- assos mille gt spring/autumn l/s jersey
- pedal ed kaido l/s merino jersey
- rapha check windjacket
- q36.5 hybrid que l/s jersey, s/s baselayer, wolf bibshorts and merino socks
- assos t-equipe evo bibshorts
- rouleur cycle clothing collection
- this is cambridge omloop l/s jersey, mesh baselayer, thermal bibshortsm kneewarmers and socks.
- rapha transfer hoodie.
- endura long-sleeve movistar team jersey
- rapha limited edition gavia collection
- haramaki - japanese body warmer
- hommage au velo bahamontes lightweight climbing jersey
- prendas/santini bordeaux-paris jersey & cap
- hilltrek hebridean ventile gilet
- dexshell ultralight waterproof socks
- endura fs260 adrenaline cape and threequarter shorts
- rapha explore range, insulated goose-down jacket
- assos mille gt hashoogi winter jacket
- prendas/santini peugeot bp inverted long-sleeve jersey
- rapha classic bibtights
- rapha milano-roma collection
- rapha tweed softshell
- prendas pro rain overshoes
- showers pass crosspoint waterproof gloves
- campagnolo c-tech winter jacket
- frahm utility field jacket
- velobici rene l/s jersey
- velobici rene thermal bibshorts
- ashmei bibshorts
- this is cambridge omloop rain/windcape
- assos equipe rs bibshorts
- endura apparel cleaner and re-proofer
- rapha core range cargo bibshorts
- endura humvee shacket
- prendas cordura oversocks
- this is cambridge omloop rain/wind gilet
- santini/prendas greg lemond l/s agrigel/adr/bottechia jersey
- prendas lisboa rain cycling cap
- rapha pro-team lightweight shadow jacket
- rapha explore winter cargo bibtights
- café du cycliste petra gilet
- rapha + gore-tex explore hooded pullover
- prendas primaloft cupron socks and winter thermolite socks
- endura pro sl primaloft jacket ii
- albion cycle clothing rain jacket
- rapha pro team insulated gore-tex jacket
- prendas/santini vetements z l/s jersey
- rapha+gore-tex explore hooded pullover
- rapha pro-team road shoes
- rapha pro-team training jersey 7 pro-team training bib shorts
- robert millar/pippa york t-shirt
- endura pro sl bibshortst
- rapha special edition belgian country jersey
- prendas ciclismo - omloop van vlaanderen
- vulpine long and short-sleeve polo shirts
- btr waterproof hi-viz waterproof jacket
- endura hummvee chino shorts with liner
- pearson cycles greg coulton illustrates s/s baselayer
- ashmei breton jersey and cycle bib shorts
- this is cambridge yellow tour socks
- prendas/santini watneys red barrel s/s jersey and cap
- ritchey cycling socks
- dexshell lightweight overshoes
- craft fuseknit s/s baselayer
- rapha core long-sleeve jersey
- prendas omloop van vlaanderen sleeves baselayer
- rapha classic winter gore-tex jacket
- rapha pro team bibshorts ii
- rapha sonic collection
- velobici cobalto thermal jersey and thermal bibshorts
- prendas shell peugeot cap
- endura urban luminite 3 in 1 jacket ii
- prendas/santini peugeot shell michelin s/s jersey
- endura xtract roubaix l/s jersey
- rapha long-sleeve calssic jersey ii
- le col hors categorie bibshorts ii
- vulpine merino alpine l/s jersey
- prendas super roubaix deluxe gloves
- sole active thin insole
- endura custom kit pro sl l/s jersey
- rapha explore lightweight jacket
- rapha gs imperial sportwool s/s club jersey, bibshorts and cap
- tic-cc hc short-sleeve jersey
- vulpine organic cotton tee
- vulpine omnia cycling jeans
- endura fs260 thermo bibknickers
- endura pro-sl three-season jacket
- quoc pham mono ii road shoes
- souke sports l/s jersey, bibtights and thermal jacket
- endura freezing point ii overshoes
- endura mt500 burner clipless offroad shoes
- endura gv500 reiver s/s jersey and bibshorts
- showers pass basecamp merino hoodie
- endura gv500 waterproof jacket
- rapha brevet s/s jersey
- rapha brevet gore-tex paclite plus jacket
- vulpine ultralight quilted gilet
- vulpine men's merino v-lux neck sweatshirt
- quoc weekend sneaker - part one
- quoc weekend sneaker - part two
- rapha powerweave bibshorts
- rapha trailwear technical t-shirt
- rapha trailwear gore-tex infinium jacket
- endura pro sl waterproof shell jacket
- rapha pro team training bibtights
- soukesports graphene l/s fleece jersey, lightweight windproof gilet, winter bibtights and padded winter gloves
- rapha men's trail merino long-sleeve t-shirt
- rapha men's explore gore-tex jacket
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- tour of britain start 2006
- 2006 braveheart ride
- schwalbe ultremo tyres
- ortlieb sling-it
- catlike whisper and kompact pro helmets
- on-one il pompino fixed wheel
- colnago clx
- science in sport nocte
- srm power crank from cylepowermeters.com
- fsa ceramic bearing jockey wheels
- lightweight ventoux carbon wheels
- colnago c50 2007
- fibre-lyte carbon chainrings
- vittoria 30th anniversary shoes + vista pedals
- fulcrum racing one wheels
- eddy merckx chm carbon + wheelsbike 2000s
- fibre-lyte carbon jockey wheels
- rapha fixed backpack
- mavic r-sys carbon spoked wheels
- oval concepts r700 stem and r710 classic bars
- muc-off optix lens cleaner
- brooks swallow leather saddle
- lumie bodyclock light
- ride of the falling rain 2008
- pro-lite piemonte cyclo-cross frame
- ultimate pro-ultralight bicycle repair stand
- rebecca charlton's review: alan a-matrix
- effetto mariposa giustaforza torque wrench
- fsa k-force carbon compact handlebars & os-99 stem
- rapha musette
- chris king classic cross wheelset
- eddy merckx racing alloy
- nokia n82 gps phone & sportstracker software
- independent fabrication featherlight
- garmin edge 705 gps unit
- sportique active body products
- sportique body soap
- sportique century riding cream & deodorants
- fixie inc. betty leeds steel race bike
- bonk breaker energy bars
sportique warming up cream and cooling cream
- sportique massage oils
- vittoria revo kxs twin tread tyres
- nokon gear and brake cable sets
- knog gator front light
- chain-l no.5 - huile de chaine
- museeuw mf5 carbon/flax frame
- brompton p-type folding bicycle
- schwalbe ultremo 'r' road tyres
- alchemy goods courier bag
- mule bars
- carbonsports lightweight rd
- trp r960 caliper brakes
- colnago cx-1
- singular peregrine
- independent fabrication club racer fixed gear
- flip ultra video camera and sport mount
- miniature cyclists
- mavic race sl ti pedals
- focus variado expert
- cyclepowermeters powertap rear wheel
- chris king cielo review
- mavic cosmic carbone slr
- shimano di2 review
- fsa sl-k pro carbon compact chainset
- zero g titanium brake calipers
- muvi micro digital video camera
- colnago clx centaur
- squirt dry lube
- crud roadracers mudguards
- bikefood
- hides
- 2010 colnago ace
- muc-off cleaners and dry lube
- ta specialites 42 campag replacement chainring
- reynolds assault carbon clincher wheels
- cyclo tools workshop tyre lever
- bike box alan
- garmin edge 500 gps
- chris king cielo - the story begins
- a graze box of healthy snacks
- sleepathlete pro-sound pillow
- park tools frame fit pump
- full wood fenders
- two'n'fro claqs
- bikefood carbo powder and munchie bars
- dromarti strada lugged steel frame
- a2z components campagnolo single speed convertor
- 9bar energy bars
- iphone/ipod bike doctor app
- crud roadracers mark two
- lazer helium helmet
- 2011 campagnolo centaur ergopower levers
- the legacy of john boultbee brooks part 3 - colt saddle
- van nicholas titanium skewers
- purple harry's bike cleaning products
- mavic k10 wheel/tyre system
- motorex lubricants and sprays
- sram red groupset
- clif choc chip bar and shotblok
- rapha skincare range
- purple harry's bike cleaning range
- ibis hakkalugi cyclocross bike
- high five zero tabs and 4:1 carb/protein powder
- moonlights rechargeable lights
- edge16 magnetic bottle 'cage'
- crank brothers eggbeater and candy pedals
- respro hump waterproof backpack cover
- pedros workshop vise whip
- andystand
- zimbale leather saddle and saddlebag
- lezyne floor drive track pump
- continental speed king cyclocross tyres & chris king cyclocross wheels
- bbb microboard computer
- demploi canvas belt bag
- aszure team issue carbon bike
- traitor luggernaut three-speed
- vittoria open pave cg tyres
- rapha tour de france cd
- enve 25 carbon sprint wheels
- mavic r-sys slr exalith wheels
- san marco mantra saddle
- cole c24 lite wheels
- trp 970sl brake calipers
- milani acciaio puro columbus xcr road bike
- trion-z magnetic therapy bracelet
- trp eurox magnesium cantilievers
- giro aeon helmet
- rapha seat pack
- bbb digiboard cycle computer
- colnago world cup 2.0 cyclocross bike
- garmin 200 gps cycle computer
- vittoria diamante pro radiale clinchers
- swift little dear bar-bag/saddle bag
- mavic plasma slr helmet
- ibis hakkalugi black lung
- nightrider lights
- beloved every day bicycle
- rapha race bag
- purple harry sanitising spray
- rapha summer embrocation
- shand cycles stoater
- sugar wheelworks ghisallo wooden rimmed wheels pt.1
- sugar wheelworks ghisallo wooden rimmed wheels pt.2
- colnago clx 3.0 di2
- ventoux event bag
- sugar wheelworks/chris king r45 ceramic wheelset
- nuun hydration tablets
- wheelsmith race23 wheels
- wheelsmith race23 wheels part two
- green oil white dry wax lubricant
- shand cycles skinnymalinky
- green oil eco bucket
- bike parka
- nilox 'foolish' hd action video camera
- condor bivio x cyclocross bike
- trakke mule waxed cotton messenger bag
- lezyne mega-drive headlight
- rapha post shave lotion
- morgan blue soft chamois cream
- morgan blue bike wash and polish
- morgan blue warming oil
- morgan blue chain cleaner and race oil
- kask vertigo helmet
- colnago c59 disc
- endura airshell helmet
- bakewell soap co. deep muscle relief rub
- dz nuts inheat embrocation
- rx sport prescription rudy project exowind cycling glasses
- dz nuts inheat embrocation
- portland design works bird cage
- purple harry travel pack
- ism adamo attack saddle
- purple harry wet lube
- rapha liveried pinarello dogma k
- festina tour of britain edition chronograph
- portland design works 3wrencho
- c originals sv888 helmet
- trek domane 5.9
- >colnago acr
- giro air-attack helmet
- gu energy slated caramel gel
- ursa major three musketeer traveler shaving kit
- rolf prima ares 4 carbon wheels
- protecht surface coatings
- fsa k-force cantilever brakes
- dz nuts bald shaving cream
- matrix waxy maize and scottish oats carb powder
- rolf prima vigor alpha wheels
- portland design works alexander graham bell
- ventoux gym bag
- silicon tidds
- wheelsmith race 24 wheels part 1
- 2013 cervelo r3
- unich mini-pump
- aerozine titanium wheel skewers
- mavic zxellium road pedals
- pdw aether demon tail light
- loksak mobile phone case
- a set of rouleur goodies including mark cavendish model
- wheelsmith race 24 wheels in 'cross mode
- axiom annihilateair track pump
- brooks cambium c17 saddle
- bridge street saddlebag
- green oil eco sponge
- ritchey torque key
- salsa celtica - the tall islands
- biologic pango folding helmet
- cervo rosso softshell case
- dmt vega road shoes
- poc octal road helmet
- shand cycles phat stoater
- bike repair app
- osmo hydration products
- multipower energy bars
- sugru flexible silicon rubber
- purple harry super sponge
- cielo racer stem
- kali phenom helmet
- bryton 20+ cycle gps
- secret training products
- ventoux training camp bag
- portland design works ninja pump
- honey stinger organic chews
- challenge limus cyclocross tyres
- fast forward f6 carbon clincher wheels
- brainy bike lights
- 24 bottles stainless steel water bottle and porta bottiglia
- purple harry rider care range
- shand rohloff stoater
- frog 55 hybrid kids' bike
- brooks brick lane panniers
- bellroy waterproof leather travel wallet
- green clean bike cleaner
- crunchy peanut butter clif bars
- chapeau cyclist's coffee
- anamaya meditation iphone app
- rapha cyclocross shoes
- look mum no hands stainless steel hip flask and cage
- rapha climbers shoes
- bodyglide products
- pedros yellow tyre levers
- mavic cxr helmet
- bar fly garmin handlebar mount
- cycling stars trump card game
- brooks cambium c15 saddle
- pedros synlube
- colnago c60
- pedros green fizz bike cleaner
- portland design works lars rover front light
- feedback sports velo hinge
- feedback sports velo hinge
- massif central tdf poster
- nixfrixshun chain lube
- richard mitchelson's cycling wallpaper
- manual for speed 2015
- the king of scotland's ibis hakkalugi disc
- tesco outdoor clothing wash and spray proofer
- clement las cyclocross clincher tyres
- pedros chain pig
- challenge gravel grinder 38mm 'cross tyres
- cherryactive concentrated montmorency cherry juice
- fox cycling online cycle training
- giro empire road shoes
- muc off hydro dynamic chain lube
- cyclops magnetic turbo trainer
- dromarti classic leather road shoes
- tern verge x-18 folding bicycle
- wheelsmith aero 38 wheelset
- sunwise hastings cycling glasses
- wheelsmith aero 38 wheelset part ii
- rapha/bang & olufsen h6 headphones
- flexiseq joint lubrication therapy
- muc off fabric protect
- brooks cambium c15 carved saddle
- mavic cxr ultimate road shoe
- frog bikes tadpole balance bike
- rapha sunglasses
- rapha rucksack
- giro vr90 offroad shoes
- colnago clx 2015
- portland design works owl cage
- vel components multi-tool with co2 adaptor
- ritchey classic series bars, stem, seatpost and saddle
- aldi bikemate bicycle toolkit
- withings activité pop watch
- selle san marco regal saddle
- led lenser b5r front light and b2r rear
- clement crusade pdx cyclocross tyres
- wickens & soderstrom bike cleaner
- bicycling magazine's emoji keyboard
- crank brothers candy 7 pedals
- muc off luxury chamois cream
- wheelsmith aero disc wheelset
- ridley x-ride 20 cyclocross bike
- break fluid blended ground coffee
- quoc pham hardcourt shoes
- crank brothers quattro cleat adaptor
- brooks carbon rail cambium c13 saddle
- crank brothers candy 7 pedal update
- ridley x-ride 20 update review
- specialized recon mixed terrain shoes
- specialized prevail road helmet
- axiom blastair mini pump
- specialized crux e5 x1 cyclocross bicycle
- cycliq fly6 rear light and hd video camera
- challenge baby limus cyclocross tyres
- crank brothers candy #7 pedals final review
- challenge strada bianca 700x33c road tyres
- green oil eco grease in a tube
- ortlieb6 plus, handlebar bag and seatpost-bag
- specialized awol elite adventure bike
- rapha + apidura bike packs
- portland design works bindle rack
- flexiseq active joint lubrication
- selle royal ta+too interchangeable saddle
- unior 1655fh multi-tool
- wd40 bicycle products
- unior tyre levers
- showers pass utility backpack
- lizard skins clear frame protection kit
- specialized crux elite cyclocross bike
- installing a campagnolo groupset
- campagnolo potenza groupset: the prologue
- lizard skins camouflage 2.5mm bar tape
- campagnolo potenza groupset: going for a ride
- specialized turbo cotton clinchers
- four months on a specialized crux elite
- wickens and soderstrom no.3 drivetrain lube
- wickens and soderstrom no.6 bike polish
- ritchey wcs xc clipless pedals
- restrap camouflage musette bag
- ritchey barkeeper levers
- campagnolo potenza; how's it doing?
- 100 climbs mobile app
- rearviz armband mirror
- six months on a specialized crux elite
- specialized sequoia elite
- ortlieb bikepacking bar pack and seatpack
- plan bee anti-chafe and embrocation
- schwalbe one pro tubeless tyres and wheelsmith ascent tubeless wheelset
- laura zabo's upcycled road tyre belts
- schwalbe one pro tubeless tyres and wheelsmith ascent tubeless wheelset part 2
- quoc pham 'night' road shoe
- specialized roubaix comp
- on the rivet chamois cream
- schwalbe one pro tubeless tyres and wheelsmith ascent tubeless wheelset part 3
- limar ultralight+ helmet
- rawvelo energy bars
- feedback sports bike tools
- more than a couple of weeks on a specialized roubaix comp
- veloeye bicycle theft protection
- ride skincare sunscreen and recovery moisturiser
- green oil spray lube
- campagnolo sarto carbon road bike
- hexlox anti-theft system
- chrome industries cardiel orp backpack
- fairbairn fabrication fangs
- chrome industries cinelli barrage cargo backpack
- sven cycles pathfinder light
- brooks weatherproof cambium c17 saddle
- chamois butt'r original and eurostyle
- wheelsmith pave wheelset
- campagnolo chorus groupset part one
- mavic yksion tubeless 28mm tyres
- campagnolo chorus groupset part two
- ritchey logic frameset
- neil pryde bura part two
- portland design works gravity tail light
- portland design works daybot tail light
- bicycle maintenance guide app for ios
- giro empire vr70 knit offroad shoes
- rapha classic saddle
- specialized turbo vado electric bicycle
- endura pro sl road helmet
- compass 700 x 28c chinook pass tyres
- brooks pickwick cotton backpack
- chinook pass tyres part two
- specialized turbo vado 2.0 - the real review
- crankalicious science friction chain lube
- ritchey micro road pedals
- rapha for apple macbook 13" sleeve
- coloral stainless steel water bottle
- campagnolo record twelve-speed bike build
- crankalicious pineapple spray was and frame sealant
- campagnolo record twelve-speed
- fassa bicycle protection
- rapha waterproof top tube pack and small seat pack
- campagnolo record twelve-speed
- specialized allez sprint comp disc
- ashmei domestique gin
- ritchey wcs ergomax alloy handlebar, wcs c220 84d stem and wcs pavé bar tape.
- goodyear eagle tubeles 700 x 30c tyres.
- specialized turbo tubeless tyres 700x28c.
- rapha explore shoes.
- specialized roval 64mm tubeless-ready disc compatible carbon wheels.
- ritchey classic zeta wheelset.
- specialized allez sprint comp disc, long-term review.
- brooks cambium organic light saddle.
- chater-lea grand tour pedals.
- ritchey chicane stem.
- rapha roll top backpack.
- zilfer cycling/activity wallet.
- rene herse hurricane ridge 700x42 gravel tyres.
- campagnolo bora wto carbon wheelset.
- limar air-pro and air master helmets.
- donnelly strada lgg 700x28c road tyres.
- basso diamante road bike-disc version.
- showers pass rainslinger waterproof hip pack.
- revolube bicycle chain lubricant.
- chater lea grand tour pedals - the story so far.
- campagnolo bora on and bora wto wheelsets.
- see.sense ace light set.
- revolube - part two.
- donnelly strada lgg 28mm road tyres
- basso diamante - part two
- clug bicycle storage solution
- revolube: the story so far
- bicycle quickguard
- ritchey echelon road pedals
- ritchey echelon road pedals - update
- btr waterproof saddle wedge
- kinesis jo burt signature bar tape
- btr waterproof bar bag
- bend 36 chamois cream
- kool-stop tyre bead jack
- rene herse steilacoom gravel tyres
- pirelli cycle-e wt winter tyres
- pirelli cycle-e wt winter tyres part two
- essence outdoors epicon glasses
- shapeheart smartphone handlebar mount
- mystery ranch hip monkey + in-and-out 19
- rene herse chinook pass road tyres
- jack the rack
- ritchey single-bolt carbon seatpost
- tyre glider
- hutchinson tundra 700 x40c gravel tyres
- hutchinson tundra 700 x40c gravel tyres part two
- green oil chain degreaser and dry chain wax
- green oil agent apple extreme degreaser
- condor cycles handbuilt wheelset
- squirt lube long lasting and low temperature versions
- green oil eco spray lube
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dvd reviews
- real peloton issues 1 and 2
- pantani-the pirate dvd bromley video
- the eddy merckx story - the greatest cycling champion. double dvd set - bromley video
- the brit pack double dvd set - bromley video
- scott coady's cobbles baby dvd
- cy-yo cycle yoga dvd
- battle of the bikes, obree/boardman - bromley double dvd set
- the final hour - bromley dvd
- ultimate cyclist cd/download. josh horowitz
- quest 2 dvd
- red zinger/coors classic 3dvd set
- flying scotsman - the graeme obree movie
- detour de france dvd
- 23 days in july dvd (1983 tour de france)
- le velo de ghislain lambert
- it's the tour baby! deux - scott coady
- the athlete's guide to yoga dvd - sage rountree
- the road to roubaix - masterlink films
- imperfection is perfection - richard sachs, framebuilder
- the high life - a life in the year of robert millar
- detour - the movie
- klunkerz dvd - the birth of mountain biking
- sportsfreund lotsch
- bicycle dreams - a movie by stephen auerbach
- pure sweet hell - a cyclocross dvd
- a ride with george hincapie
- d'acciaio - a film by ben ingham
- the cyclocross meeting - brian vernor
- brian robinson - an alan pascoe film
- breaking away
- cycle of betrayal - the shay elliot story
- the collective anthology
- jeremy powers cross camp
- mark cavendish: born to race
- beryl burton - racing is life
- l'ultimo chilometro
- janapar movie
- bespoken cycle music by johnny random
- pantani: the accidental death of a cyclist
- a film about coffee
- for the love of mud a film about cyclocross
- alf engers. a film by ray pascoe
- dummy jim - a film by matt hulse
- battle mountain - graeme obree
- time-trial a film by finlay pretsell featuring david millar
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book reviews
- spain - the trailrider guide
- bikie
- the yellow jersey guide to the tour de france
- a century of the tour de france by jeremy whittle
- the official tour de france centennial 1903 - 2003
- flying scotsman - the graeme obree story
- riding high-shadow cycling the tour de france by paul howard
- the ras - the story of ireland's stage race by tom daly
- bicycling science 3 - david gordon wilson
- one more kilometre and we're in the showers
- food for fitness - chris carmichael
- 101 bike routes in scotland - harry henniker
- park tool big blue book of bicycle repair - calvin jones
- roule britannia - william fotheringham
- marco pantani - john wilcockson | lance armstrong - daniel coyle
- michael barry - inside the postal bus
- a peiper's tale - allan peiper | man on the run, (marco pantani) - manuela ronchi
- the tour de france - graeme fife
- viva la vuelta - the story of spain's favourite race - adrian bell & lucy fallon
- les nomades du velo anglais - tony hewson (plus extract)
- velopress special: andy pruitt's cyclist's medical guide | lennard zinn's book of road bike maintenance | lennard zinn's book of mountain bike maintenance
- workouts in a binder for indoor cycling - velopress
- the death of marco pantani. a biography by matt rendell
- heart zones cycling - the avid cyclist's guide to riding faster and farther
- the hour - sporting immortality the hard way. michael hutchinson
- a question of balance. a collection of 24 postcards by jean jacques sempe.
- le grand pelerinage - histoire d'une passion cyclomythique. jack fournier & bruno moreau.
- cycling's golden age: heroes of the postwar era 1946-1967 owen mullholland. velopress
- ascent. the mountains of the tour de france by richard yates
- cycletouring in france - a cicerone guide
- cycling in the french alps - eight classic cycle tours by paul henderson. a cicerone guide
- the tour de france 2006 by john wilcockson
- cycling for health and fitness (revised and updated edition). ed pavelka.
- the six day bicycle races - america's jazz-age sport. peter joffre nye.
- base building for cyclists - thomas chapple
- fausto coppi - jacques augendre
- in search of robert millar - richard moore
- the beautiful machine - graeme fife
- flandrien - stephan vanfleteren
- gracie goat's big bike race
- sports nutrition for endurance athletes - monique ryan
- the racing bike book - haynes publishing
- two wheels by matt seaton - guardian books
- city cycling by richard ballantine - snowbooks
- cyclocross training+technique by simon burney. velopress
- paris roubaix - a journey through hell. velopress
- rouleur photography annual and exhibition 2007
- the tour de france - graeme fife
- cyclist's training diary - joe friel
- the athletes guide to yoga - sage rountree
- the rapha guide to the road climbs of the pyrenees - graeme fife
- sex, lies and handlebar tape - the jacques anquetil story by paul howard
- road bike maintenance by guy andrews
- roadie by jamie smith
- the eagle of the canavese by herbie sykes
- touring in switzerland - a cicerone guide
- we might as well win - johan bruyneel and bill strickland
- heroes, villains and velodromes - chris hoy and britain's track revolution - richard moore
- the tour is won on the alpe - jean-paul vespini
- blazing saddles - matt rendell
- tour climbs - chris sidwells
- riding the storm - geoff thomas
- tomorrow we ride - jean bobet
- the bicycle book - wit, wisdom & wanderings
- campagnolo - 75 years of cycling passion
- rouleur photography annual 2008
- a dog in a hat - joe parkin
- tour de france - the history, the legend, the riders - graeme fife
- cycle for life - nicole cooke
- in pursuit of glory - bradley wiggins
- ten points - bill strickland
- the full cycle - vin denson
- les p'tits velo - janol apin
- weight training for cyclists
- inside stories - a collection of rapha labels
- fallen angel: the passion of fausto coppi. william fotheringham
- paterek manual for bicycle framebuilding - tim paterek
- bicycling for women - gale bernhardt
- hello sailor - michael hutchinson
- pedaling revolution - jeff mapes
- custom bicycles - a passionate pursuit. elliot & jablonka
- graham watson's tour de france travel guide
- a racing cyclist's worst nightmare - tony hewson
- the daily telegraph book of the tour de france
- lance - john wilcockson
- cutting your car use - anna semlyen
- cyclocross - chris hinkle
- olympic gangster - matt rendell
- bicycle diaries - david byrne
- the time crunched training system - chris carmichael
- chris hoy - the autobiography
- ride with me nyc - roos stallinga
- fixed gear culture
- rouleur photo annual 2009
- the wrong kind of snow - woodward/penn
- cicerone guide to cycle touring in ireland - tom cooper
- brompton bicycle - david henshaw
- cicerone guide to traversing the massif central - alan castle
- two wheels on my wagon - paul howard
- the athlete's plate - adam kelinson
- take a seat - dominic gill
- the rapha guide to the great road climbs of the southern alps - graeme fife and pete drinkell
- it's all about the bike - rob penn
- come and gone - joe parkin
- when we were young and carefree - laurent fignon
- 100 greatest cycling climbs - simon warren
- lapize ...now there was an ace - jean bobet
- tour de lance - bill strickland
- bikesnobnyc - eben weiss
- cyclopedia - william fotheringham
- the lost cyclist - david v herlihy
- where to ride in london - nick woodford
- the custom road bike - guy andrews
- the spring classics - velopress
- the peloton - timm koelln
- pocket rocket - steve joughin
- on tour - bradley wiggins & scott mitchell
- brian robinson, pioneer - graeme fife
- ten poems about bicycles - candlestick press
- cyclepedia - michael embacher
- cycling in the peak district - chiz dakin
- vintage people on bicycles
- drink smoke flanders - chris milliman
- maglia rosa - herbie sykes
- wide eyed and legless- jeff connor
- slaying the badger - richard moore
- sky's the limit- richard moore
- the cyclist's friend- chris naylor
- the bicycle book - bella bathurst
- pedalare! pedalare! - john foot
- how i won the yellow jumper - ned boulting
- hell on two wheels - amy snyder
- racing through the dark - david millar
- shay elliot - graham healy & richard allchin
- mud, sweat and gears - ken and maureen nichols
- one man and his bike - mike carter
- cyclosportive - chris sidwells
- excerpt from the obree way - graeme obree
- a bit of an all rounder - john coulson
- salsa for people who probably shouldn't - matt rendell
- team 7-eleven - geoff drake
- the belgian hammer - daniel lee
- bicycle travel journal - nigel peake
- past present future - condor cycles
- nicholas roche - life in the peloton
- bianchi: a bicycle alone in the lead - daniele marchesini
- rouleur photo annual 2011
- the obree way - graeme obree
- the cyclist's guide to hillclimbs on scottish lowland roads
- how cav won the green jersey - ned boulting (e-book)
- richard sachs, bicycle maker - nick czerula
- unsurpassed: the story of tommy godwin - godfrey barlow
- merckx: half man, half bike - william fotheringham
- bike tribes. a field guide to north american cyclists - mike magnuson
- argyle armada - mark johnson
- eddy merckx; the cannibal - daniel friebe
- another 100 greatest cycling climbs - simon warren
- land's end to john o'groats by nick mitchell
- field of fire - jeff connor
- cycle chic - mikael colville andersen
- cycle style - horst a. friedrichs
- born to ride - stephen roche
- cutting edge cycling - hunter allen, stephen cheung
- just ride - grant petersen
- fitness for geeks - bruce w perry
- the dirtiest race in history - richard moore
- cycling in the hebrides - richard barrett
- around ireland on a bike - paul benjaminse
- cycling guide to southern england - harold briercliffe
- the bike owners handbook - pete drinkell
- the road to valour - aili and andres mcconnon
- the eagle of toledo - alasdair fotheringham
- on my own two wheels - malachi o'doherty
- 100 best bikes - zadid sardar
- velo - paul fournel and jo burt
- bike! - richard moore and daniel benson
- mud, snow and cyclocross - molly hurford
- the secret race - tyler hamilton and daniel coyle
- bike craft, design, innovation - the oregon manifest
- between the lines - victoria pendleton and donald mccrae
- raleigh 125th anniversary book
- reg harris - robert dineen
- merckx 525 - velopress
- behind the stare - geoff proctor
- made in england - sowter, feather, peshcke
- bradley wiggins: tour de force - john deering
- allez wiggo - daniel friebe
- the srampagmano tales - scarlett parker
- my time - bradley wiggins
- 21 days to glory - official team sky tour 2012
- coppi - herbie sykes
- everyday bicycling - elly blue
- the cycling anthology issue one
- the bicycle reader - jack thurston
- cycle space - steven fleming
- inside out - tom southam and camille mcmillan
- ride 2: bicycle fiction
- the complete guide to sports nutrition - anita bean
- the rhine cycle route - mike wells
- dennis horn - racing for an english rose - peter underwood
- fitter, further, faster - charlton, hicks and reynolds
- hellingen; a road cyclist's guide to belgium's greatest cycling climbs - simon warren
- paris-roubaix: the inside story - les woodland
- lost lanes - jack thurston
- maglia rosa second edition - herbie sykes
- twelve months in the saddle - john deering & phil ashley
- tour de france 100 - richard moore
- racing hard - william fotheringham
- tour de france 100 official treasures - carlton publishing
- cycling anthology volume two - birnie, bacon
- 100 years of the tour de france - quercus publishing
- riding hard - william fotheringham
- the race against time - edward pickering
- easy rider - rob hayles
- hunger - sean kelly
- va va froome - david sharp
- the rules - velominati
- golden stages of the tour de france - allchin & bell
- haynes advanced road bike maintenance
- land of second chances - tim lewis
- the culinary cyclist - anna brones
- 30 year cycle - chris boulton
- complete road bike maintenance - guy andrews
- the waltonwood journal
- steel soul - andrew g smith
- l'album d'eddy
- 101 - bradley wiggins & scott mitchell
- cyclo cross photo book - balint hamvas
- the long race to glory - chris sidwells
- the elite bicycle - gerard brown and graeme fife
- it's all about the bike - sean yates
- classic cycling race routes - chris sidwells
- project rainbow - rod ellingworth
- life cycle - gary sutherland
- rapha city guides
- the waltonwood journal no.2
- the cycling anthology no.3
- the pain and the glory - team sky
- rouleur centenary tour annual 2013
- reading the race - jamie smith
- wheelmen - albergotti & o'connell
- pocket road bike maintenance - guy andrews
- at speed - mark cavendish
- viva la vuelta - lucy fallon and adrian bell
- the girl's guide to life on two wheels - cathy bussey
- ordinary - john bradshaw
- a bicycle ride in yorkshire - heather dawe
- the monuments - peter cossins
- racing weight cookbook - matt fitzgerald & georgie fear
- racing weight cookbook - matt fitzgerald & georgie fear
- faster - michael hutchinson
- get on your bike - rebecca charlton, robert hicks & hannah reynolds
- lanterne rouge - max leonard
- gironimo - tim moore
- the veteran's guide to gearing up for your ride - tom allen
- the road cyclist's companion - peter drinkell
- 100 greatest cycling climbs of the tour de france - simon warren
- yoga for cyclists - lexie williamson
- the complete history of the world's greatest cycle race - marguerite lazell
- reckless, the life and times of luis ocana - alasdair fotheringham
- on the road bike revised edition - ned boulting
- etape - richard moore
- merckx 69 - tonny strouken & jan maes
- shadows on the road - michael barry
- the complete book of the tour de france 2014 edition - feargal mckay
- climbs and punishment - felix lowe
- the cycling anthology number four
- amigo - nando boers & pedro horillo
- the climb - chris froome
- bike fit - phil burt
- cycle of lies - juliet macur
- eric's big day - rod waters
- kings of pain - rapha
- ocana - carlos arribas
- a clean break - christophe bassons
- the loyal lieutenant - george hincapie
- the road headed west - leon mccarron
- cyclocross 2013/2014 photo album - balint hamvas
- along the med on a bike called reggie - andrew sykes
- the race against the stasi - herbie sykes
- pro cycling on $10 a day - phil gaimon
- two days in yorkshire - pave publishing
- the moselle cycle route - mike wells
- how to be a cyclist - john deering & phil ashley
- great british cycling - ellis bacon
- the moselle cycle route - mike wells
- transport, climate change and the city - hickman & banister
- roads were not built for cars - carlton reid
- ray's mtb indoor bike park - johnathan allen and ray petro
- cycling anthology volume five
- infographic guide to cycling - roadcyclinguk
- bike mechanic - guy andrews & rohan dubash
- 101 damnations - ned boulting
- goggles and dust - velopress
- the great fatsby - elden nelson
- bicycling around the world - jeurissen & johnson
- the danube cycleway vol. one - mike wells
- eat bacon, don't jog - grant petersen
- 20 classic sportive rides in south east england
- hinault - ruben van gucht
- to hell on a bike - iain macgregor
- between worlds - andrew welch
- cycling climbs - nigel peake and claire beaumont
- eat sleep cycle - anna hughes
- bernard hinault - william fotheringham
- cyclogeography - jon day
- alpe d'huez - peter cossins
- the hebrides - peter edwards
- the grand tour cookbook - hannah grant
- kings of the road - robert dineen
- a corinthian endeavour - paul jones
- vélochef - henrik orre
- rapha's mondial magazine
- the great boffo - frank dickens
- the yellow jersey club - ed pickering
- cyclocross 2014/2015 - balint hamvas
- beyond the finish line -philipp hympendahl
- a year in the saddle - giles belbin
- the racer - david millar
- the cycling anthology volume six
- the bolt supremacy - richard moore
- the world of cycling according to g - geraint thomas
- the man who made things out of trees - robert penn
- everybody's friend - peter cossins
- shoulder to shoulder - velopress
- my hour - bradley wiggins
- journey- ben ingham
- the mamils a to z - wilson & rickett
- the danube cycleway vol 2 - cicerone guides
- cycling in the hebrides - cicerone guides
- lost lanes wales - jack thurston
- ventoux-bert wagendorp
- connected - matthias schneider
- zinn and the art of road bike maintenance - lennard zinn
- the bicycle colouring book - shan jiang
- grand tour - richard mitchelson
- lands end to john o'groats - nick mitchell
- art of the jersey - andy storey
- shut up legs - jens voigt
- africa solo - mark beaumont
- the great bike race - geoffrey nicholson
- cycling in the lake district - richard barrett
- triumphs and turbulence - chris boardman
- magnum cycling photography - guy andrews
- the cyclist's bucket list - eliza southwood
- circus - camille mcmillan
- the invisible mile - david coventry
- the cyclist who went out in the cold - tim moore
- boulting's velosaurus - ned boulting
- greg lemond. yellow jersey racer - guy andrews
- river rhone cycle route - mike wells
- reinventing the automobile - mitchell, borroni-bird, burns
- from bicycle to superbike - hadland & burrows
- crapper cycle lanes - david whelan
- brooks compendium
- walking the speyside way - alan castle
- dead reckoning: the photo book
- around the world in eightly days - belbin & seex
- the climbs of south-west england - simon warren
- the men of paris-roubaix - max leonard
- the haywire heart - case, mandrola, zinn
- bike nation - peter walker
- giro d'italia - colin o'brien
- steadfast-my story - lizzie armitstead
- giro d'italia - colin o'brien
- a man and his bike - wilfried de jong
- cycling climbs of scotland - simon warren
- giro 100 - herbie sykes
- higher calling - max leonard
- indurain - alasdair fotheringham
- the hardmen - velominati
- ask a pro - phil gaimon
- butcher, blacksmith, acrobat, sweep - peter cossins
- tom simpson - andy mcgrath
- bike boom - carlton reid
- the time crunched cyclist - chris carmichael & jim rutberg
- the cycling cartoonist - dave walker
- spain to norway on a bike called reggie - andrew sykes
- mrs flying scotsman - anne obree
- simon's cycle shorts - simon bever
- three weeks, eight seconds - nige tassell
- the descent - thomas dekker
- cycling climbs of north-east england - simon warren
- cycling the lancashire cycleway - jon sparks
- chasing the rainbow - giles belbin
- cycling climbs of north-west england - simon warren
- cycling science - cheung & zabala
- anquetil. alone - paul fournel
- rainbows in the mud - paul maunder
- woods. a celebration - robert penn
- duffs fantastic cycling gizmos - graham high
- gravel cycling - nick legan
- cycling podcast - moore, birnie & friebe
- the ronde: inside the tour of flanders - edward pickering
- sunday in hell - william fotheringham
- the all new cyclist's training bible 5th edition - joe friel
- copenhagenize - mikael colville-andersen
- full gas - peter cossins
- the call of the road - chris sidwells
- the wind at my back - paul maunder
- getting started in road cycling - guy andrews and laura quick
- american pro - jamie smith
- cartes du tour - paul fournel
- the road cycling performance manual - nikalas cook
- london to paris - mike wells
- racing bicycles - nick higgins
- the wild atlantic way and western ireland - tom cooper
- coast to coast across lancashire - rachel crolla
- around the world in eighty days - mark beaumont
- building the cycling city - melissa & chris bruntlett
- cycling lôn las cymru - richard barrett
- the theory of type design - gerard unger
- my world - peter sagan
- i like alf - paul jones
- queens of pain - isabel best
- rich mitch 'legends' takenotebook
- peaky climbers. paul mcintosh with anna hughes
- the road book - a cycling almanack - boulting, kelly
- the tour according to g - geraint thomas
- rapha handbook 02 longer rides - jo burt
- cicerone 50th anniversary - kev reynolds
- cycling the canal de la garonne - declan lyons
- pantani was a god - marco pastonesi
- cycling the camino de santiago - mike wells
- pedro delgado. a life on the pedals
- outdoor adventures with children - rachel crolla and carl mckeating
- the beast, the emperor and the milkman - harry pearson
- 100 greatest cycling climbs of italy - simon warren
- mind is the ride - jet mcdonald
- the secret cyclist
- need for the bike - paul fournel
- chasing lines - james mclaren
- rough stuff fellowship archive
- cycle touring in wales - richard barrett
- the yellow jersey - peter cossins
- one way ticket - jonathan vaughters
- magic spanner - carlton kirby
- the self sufficient cyclist - guy kesteven
- cycling anatomy (2nd edition) - shannon sovndal
- viva la vuelta - fallon & bell
- the greatest. the times and life of beryl burton - will fotheringham
- cycle touring in northern scotland - mike wells
- where there's a will - emily chappell
- the power of pink annual - rapha/blutrain
- exploring off-road - helen wyman
- navigation. techniques and skills for walkers (cyclists) - pete hawkins
- navigation. techniques and skills for walkers (cyclists) - pete hawkins
- the grand tour files 2019 - pete linsley
- the medal factory - kenny pryde
- colombia es pasion! - matt rendell
- lost lanes north - jack thurston
- balmamion - herbie sykes
- mountains. epic cycling climbs - michael blann
- the bicycle clip diaries - nick raistrick
- gears for queers - melton and cooper
- cycling hadrian's cycleway - mckeating/crolla
- northern line 2021 calendar
- mountains according to g - geraint thomas
- ride inside - friel and rutberg
- ride britain - simon warren
- raincoats are for tourists - isabel best
- la course en tete - will fotheringham et al
- being gary fisher - guy kesteven
- slow rise - robert penn
- the road book 2020 - ned boulting
- end to end - paul jones
- bespoke - tom bromley
- pennine bridleway - hannah collingridge
- a cylcist's guide to the pyrenees- peter cossins
- the art of cycling - james hibbard
- war on wheels - justin mccurry
- the midlife cyclist - phil cavell
- from a to b. a cartoon guide to getting around by bike - dave walker
- land's end to john o'groats - richard barrett
- big rides - kathy rogers/marcus stitz
- cycling the reivers route - crolla and mckeating
- signs of life - stephen fabes
- vuelta skelter - tim moore
- a brief history of motion - tom standage
- desire, discrimination,determination -marlon lee moncrieffe
- exponential -azeem azhar
- 1001 cycling tips - hannah reynolds
- more rough stuff
- the road book 2021 - edited by ned boulting
- cycling the elbe cycling route - mike wells
- god is dead. the rise and fall of frank vandenbroucke - andy mcgrath
- cycling the ruta via de la plata - john hayes
- gravel rides scotland -ed shoote
- the break - steve cummings
- jan ullrich - daniel friebe
- great british gravel rides -markus stitz
- beryl - jeremy wilson
- climbers - peter cossins
- the dot - lachlan morton
- the sound of the machine - karl bartos
- traffic-free cycle trails south east england - nick cotton & kathy rogers
- the northern line cycling calendar 2023
- britain's best bike ride - walsh & reynolds
- chased by pandas - dan martin
- two wheels good - jody rosen
- the road book 2022 5th edition - ed. ned boulting
- the brompton: engineering for change. will butler-adams
- a brief history of pasta. - luca cesari
- offroad heroes - rapha editions
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