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Brooks leather bar tape: British Racing Green

VeloVision #29, Bicycle Quarterly V6 # 3

Schwalbe ULTREMO tire; 700x23, 195g, Vectran belt

Schwalbe ULTREMO tube: 700x20/23, 49g(!)

Thursday, 24 April

A New Leather Saddle

Gilles Berthoud has been developing his own version of the traditional leather saddle. We have the story of this project in his own words.

Thursday, 27 March

NEW! Brooks BRICK LANE Panniers.

Wednesday, 26 March

Nate Saltus' Schwinn Collegiate. Nate says the fenders are original!

Thursday, 13 March

Berthoud FENDER CHART Gilles Berthoud has provided a chart with specifications for his stainless steel fenders and recommendations for the fender size to use with your tires. We have posted this PDF version.

Friday, 7 March

Steel Swallow Classic We just got in some of the new chrome-plated steel-railed Swallow Classics. The price is quite a bit lower and the chrome looks pretty sharp.

This Brooks couch was created by Scarabike - "a bicycle producing company" in Japan. They have a matching stool.

We spotted this clever bike rack in Vancouver's Momentum magazine #30. The picture is kind of small but maybe you can get the idea.

B.18 Lady Special Edition: It's Maroon

Brooks' B.18 Lady is already pretty special but they have upped the ante with a Special Edition maroon version. The saddle comes supplied with matching maroon handlebar grips.

Wednesday, June 20th

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Friday, July 14th

1935 - The Development of Gearing

The mid-30s was a time of development for the multi-speed drivetrain. This week's 'Cycling' PDF features advertisements picturing gearing innovations from Oscar Egg, Villiers, Cyclo, and Sturmey Archer.You can download this 4 page PDF to explore these steps-on-the-way-to-the-modern-drivetrain further. Bonus: an ad for "Something Really New; automatic quick release hubs" from Campagnolo.

Monday, July 3rd

Bobet Wins Tour de France

An account of the mountain stages and final time trial that ended the1954 fiftieth-anniversary Tour de France was published in the August 5th, 1954 edition of "Cycling" magazine. Louison Bobet won convincingly after a very strong ride."It was literally a fury of speed"
"Bobet was in a mood rampant."

You can download this 5 page article in PDF format.

Friday, May 30th

What Would the Bike of AD 2000 Look Like?

In 1954 Britain's "Cycling Weekly" asked their readers what they thought the bicycle would look like in the year 2000. We came across the 2nd installment of this article recently and thought it was pretty interesting. Some of the predictors had a pretty accurate crystal ball; "Mass produced frames will be electrically welded but craftsman-specialists will still build bicycles. . . .by hand, to the requirements of the conniseur." Some missed the mark pretty wide; Tyres "will be made of plastic and filled with a Latex foam compound so that punctures will cease to exist."We have reproduced this two page article in PDF format for those of you who are interested. If you would like to see more of these historical articles let us know. Now. . . if we could only find that March 18th, 1954 issue that has the first part of this article.

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