Well, all I can say is Holey Moley!
I adore Bishop Bikes and this road bike is just a stunner!
It’s built up with mechanical Campy Super Record and Enve wheels, seatpost & bars – very nice.
Enjoy more of the photo stream on Bishop Bikes’ Flickr page.
OK then.
Check out this classic steel framed bike from Cinelli.
So graceful.
Today I have another beautiful bike to share, this time a bespoke carbon road bike from Crumpton Cycles.
Overall the bike looks a little”podgy” because of the oversized downtube, but that just makes it more appealing to me.
The lime green colour is to die for, in my opinion!
If I ever build up another bike from found bike bits, I’ll paint the frame either lime green like this or dark grey with bright orange highlights.
Enjoy.
Here’s an interesting bike built up for one Marcus by Royal H Cycles.
Internal drum brakes and a belt drive, but with options to have cantilever brakes or caliper brakes if he wants them in the future.
It looks dangerous ‘cos you can’t see any brakes, but it’s not – they’re inside the epic hubs.
See more pics at Royal H Cycles.
The Tweed Run – The London Tweed Run from 2012.
Nice video.
I’m impressed by the handlebar moustachios..
Andy White of Fyxomatosis recently posted a beautiful custom rebuild of an ALAN.
Andy is a real bicycle fan and you can see it from all of the detailed photos of the ALAN he has taken from a large variety of angles.
From what I can gather…
ALAN is a private factory from Italy.
These vintage ALAN’s were screwed and glued (the tubing threaded into the lugs) and they were very light for the time.
They still make bikes, but now they’re using carbon fibre instead of screwed and glued aluminium.
ALAN had a wonderful run as being the top frame in cyclocross for about 20 years and had about 7 world championships to its race credits.
Cycling teams which used ALAN frames included: the national amateur team of Poland (1973/1974) Magniflex Italy from 1974 to 1979, Furzi, Vibor, GBC, Selle Royal, Fiorella, Famcucine, TEKA Santini (Spain), FANGIO (Belgium), VARTA (Colombia), Fanini (Love and Life) and GUERCIOTTI.
Indivduals who used ALAN frames include: Zilioli, Low, Bertoglio, Gavazzi, Baronchelli, Beccia, Battaglin, Thevenet, Kuiper, Lejretta, Parra, Lucio Herrera, Johansson, and in cyclo-cross Liboton, Zweifel, Wolfsholl, Stamsnijder, Thaler, Kluge and the Italians Di Tano and Pontoons (21 world titles won in cyclo-cross) and on the track Clark, Risi, Golinelli, Brugna and Villa.
Occasionally an ALAN frame would fail by cracking at the lugs (usually head lugs) a failure which could be fixed by screwing in a new lug.
All I know is that they sure look nice.
Prolly is not Probably has this gorgeous Shamrock Cycles Cross listed on his blog under the tag 2013 North American Handmade Bicycle Show.
Swoon…
I’ve been buying old bikes from rubbish tips for a few years now, and along the way, I’ve gotten to know, in general terms, what sort of components, wheels and frames to look for as a sign of quality.
Most rubbish tip bikes, when cleaned up, are OK for occasional use by non-serious cyclists, but are heavy and clunky and not worth anything in monetary or heritage terms.
But sometimes you will come across a real classic.
I found this at the tip a few years back:
A 1980s Shogun Ninja with Shimano 105 groupset.
When I researched it, I discovered its frame was rated for people up to 90kg, so I foolishly sold her (I’m over 90kg, but trying to slim down) and had to make do with this tip find for a while:
A 1980s Appollo Concorde with full Shimano Exage Sport groupset.
I sold that one too. Now I ride another tip find very similar to this below for my work commute.
A 1989 Bianchi Equinox early cyclocross bike with a mix of top-of-the-line SunTour XC Pro and XC Comp mountan bike components.
It’s a great, solid, smooth ride, but it’s very upright and geared really low, so going from the Apollo to the Bianchi felt like going from a sports car to a bus.
But I won’t sell the Bianchi, It’s just too nice all round.
That said, I’m now on the lookout for a racier bike for my commute, so I get that feeling of youth flowing through my veins again as I race up the main street of Canberra at over 40km/h almost keeping pace with the traffic . 😉
I may be getting old, but I still like to blow the cobwebs out of my legs from time to time.
If I ever came across one of these, I’d snap it up in an instant.
It’s a 1985 custom-made Gangl with a frame of Reynolds 753 steel and Campagnolo Super Record and possibly C-Record components.
Phew, my brow is sweaty already!
Browsing Tomii Cycles’ Flickr Photostream, I found yet another place to mount thumbshifters!
Woohoo!
Nao Tomii moved from Japan to Massachusetts in the U.S.A. to study art.
From there he started scultping and eventually fused his love of sculpture with his love of cycling to form Tomii Cycles, where he creates utilitarian sculptures in the form of beautiful custom-built bicycles.
The city bike he built for Chiaki is testament to his skill as a designer and builder of beautiful things made of steel.
Browse more photos from Tomii’s Flickr Photostream while listening to the soothing tune below from his blog:
Tomii Cycles – Beautiful bicycles with oversized attitude.
Splat Kerplunk! 