The Catch In summer of 2020, with pandemic fatigue already setting in, a dark inky-blue-fillet-brazed road frame came my way from Portland, Oregon. I purchased the frameset from my fellow bicycle…
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Beautiful Bicycles My Bikes2014 MAP S & P Randonneur Project: Kinda Fancy, Pretty Fast, Super Comfy
With its Land Rover green color, honey leather saddle and matching amber shallaced bars, it is a bike that looks borderline matchy-matchy. I’m guilty of fetishizing the build a little, although…
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For a number of years, I’ve been obsessed with a very specific kind of French bicycle: the randonneur or, more correctly the randonneuse. In American usage, this is most often reduced…
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As cycling sub-genres go, randonneuring is an obscure and geeky one, probably less familiar to Americans than BMX riding and unicycling. Typical randonneuring rides, (they are not races but there are…
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In a color combination that recalls pumpkins, charred wood, and Eddy Merckx, Motobecane’s top mid-70s model in orange and black livery is a lusted after machine. To see one is to…
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I’ll admit that my initial attraction to Jack Taylor bicycles was superficial. I loved the flamboyant paint, the box striping, and the mid-century modern logo. After a few years of searching,…
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I had zero French bicycles in my collection when fellow Classic Rendezvous list member, Tom Jordan, posted a for sale ad for a tall handsome LeJeune. His price was fair, and…
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Read the whole story about my LeJeune here.…
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In 1988, at a shop down the hill from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, I bought my first real road bicycle: a red and white 1987 Bridgstone RB-2 on closeout.…
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I just signed up for the 2016 edition of Eroica, California. It will be my second year, and I have great memories of spinning along in a peloton of riders in…