Tag: fixie
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Pleasure Dome 2019
Are you in? The message goes out in September: Track at Lee Valley in December. Are you in? A flurry or replies from the team and soon enough the date is locked in. Two groups will be bombing around the velodrome to welcome in the new year and impeding decade. It’s a cracking way to…
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The Mumbai Mess
One hot country, two slick wheels, and three of the best bike messengers in the world. It can only be lunch time in Mumbai: Video © of WeLoveCycling Films – funny how the team car manages to find a cinematic free-road Three Baroudeurs With three of our very own Baroudeurs returning from a recce in India, it’s…
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Slovak Queen – Nicole-Frybortova
*image via Nicole Frybortova There are kings and there are queens in cycling. We now have a Slovak World Champion, but a lesser known accomplishment is the Slovak queen of Artisitc Cycling, Nicole Frybortova. Originally of Czech descent, she now rides as…
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Six Day London
Six Days Racing is coming to London and it’s going to be spectacular! https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=70&v=ldtCNK0INw4 Here we Go! Here we GO! Jack sends me a link, and says we got to go down there. The link goes to a video presentation, with a familiar face. It’s the Manx Missile himself, Mark Cavendish, explaining why he’s excited about…
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Red Hook Crit
https://youtu.be/1gpO0IL-_iA It takes two to make a thing go right I first met Paffo and Fabio on a Sunday ride to Windsor and back. Then later on that week for laps in the local park. Not at all astonishing till you realise they’re both riding bare-knuckle-bikes – fixies without brakes! Paffo and Fabio ride for the Back-To-Back…
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Riding in the shadows of Legends
space Headliners Only en velo do you get to score at Wembley, headline Glastonbury or walk on the moon. The velodrome at Herne Hill, South London is 120 years old this year and in its day was a cycling equivalent of Wembley, hosting the 1948 Olympics and cycling legends like Jacques Anquetil, Fausto Coppi and…