Downton Abbey
“Newspaper Delivery”
The Crawley manor awaits the delivery of the morning newspaper in the opening episode of the first season.
Source – Downton Abbey
The Kid with a Bike
“Le Gamin au Velo”
Cyril, bientôt 12 ans, n’a qu’une idée en tête : retrouver son père qui l’a placé provisoirement dans un foyer pour enfants.
Il rencontre par hasard Samantha, qui tient un salon de coiffure et qui accepte de l’accueillir chez elle pendant les week-ends.
Abandoned by his father, a young boy is left in a state-run youth farm. In a random act of kindness, the town hairdresser agrees to foster him on weekends.
Source – Le Gamin au Velo
Winter Climbing
“Virtual Partner”
Christophe Le Mével
Virtual Partner™ can turn any training session into a virtual matchup. Letting you race your previous bests or challenge any activities uploaded to Garmin Connect™.
Train with Christophe Le Mevel this winter with pre-planned training activities available for download at garmin.com/wintertraining.
Watch this video from Timmelsjoch in Austria as Team Garmin’s Christophe Le Mével climbs using the Edge 800 cycling GPS.
Source – Garmin Winter Training 2012
Get Naked
“Naked Bicycles”
Sunny rides
Award winning Naked Bicycles. Each custom bicycle is built one at a time with love, logic and elbow grease on Quadra Island, BC. It’s time. Get naked.
Company Overview
Sam Whittingham, founder, designer and builder for the custom bicycle fabrication company, Naked Bicycles and Design, has been building custom frames one by one with love, logic and elbow grease for over a decade now.
Bike making is in our blood. You could say this company really started 30 years ago as Sam ripped apart his first coaster hub to make it “skid better”. Or maybe it was when he duct-taped a broom stick to his “girl’s bike” to make it a “boy’s bike”.
Source – NAKED BICYCLES
Nice Wheels
“A Bicycling Beauty”
Sunny rides
A rider from another century: Mr Hoopdriver
“A Bicycling Idyll”
It was at a charming little place between Esher and Cobham, where a
bridge crosses a stream, that Mr. Hoopdriver came across the other cyclist
in brown. It is well to notice the fact here, although the interview was
of the slightest, because it happened that subsequently Hoopdriver saw a
great deal more of this other man in brown. The other cyclist in brown
had a machine of dazzling newness, and a punctured pneumatic lay
across his knees. He was a man of thirty or more, with a whitish face, an
aquiline nose, a lank, flaxen moustache, and very fair hair, and he
scowled at the job before him. At the sight of him Mr. Hoopdriver pulled
himself together, and rode by with the air of one born to the wheel. “A
splendid morning,” said Mr. Hoopdriver, “and a fine surface.”
“The morning and you and the surface be everlastingly damned!” said
the other man in brown as Hoopdriver receded. Hoopdriver heard the
mumble and did not distinguish the words, and he felt a pleasing sense
of having duly asserted the wide sympathy that binds all cyclists together,
of having behaved himself as becomes one of the brotherhood of the
wheel. The other man in brown watched his receding aspect. “Greasy
proletarian,” said the other man in brown, feeling a prophetic dislike.
“Got a suit of brown, the very picture of this. One would think his sole
aim in life had been to caricature me. It’s Fortune’s way with me. Look at
his insteps on the treadles! Why does Heaven make such men?”
And having lit a cigarette, the other man in brown returned to the
business in hand.
Mr. Hoopdriver worked up the hill towards Cobham to a point that he
felt sure was out of sight of the other man in brown, and then he dismounted
and pushed his machine; until the proximity of the village and
a proper pride drove him into the saddle again.
source: H.G. Wells “The Wheel of Chance”. 1905
Hotels are for the weak
“Chad’s Adventure”
Sure, we’d originally planned to treat our 2012 Tour des Rockies riders to all manner of luxury. Then it occurred to us (about the same time we started panicking over sponsors); you don’t even want luxury. You want to rough it. Canadian style. We heard you, and in response we’ve developed a unique Self-Contained Alpine Tour (SCAT) package that incorporates your accommodation, food, and water in a convenient trailer you’ll tow from Vancouver to Banff, Alberta. And because this is an Epoch Event, every trailer comes with it’s own butler, who’ll curl up in your trailer during the day, while catering to your needs and standing guard against bears each evening. That’s what sets us apart from the others. We’re sure you’ll agree: It’s about time!
Source: Chad Hooper
In Bicicletta
“Bike Sharing a Mantova”
Da lunedì 13 settembre parte il servizio di Bike Sharing.
Le otto postazioni sparse per la città si trovano: davanti alla stazione, a Campo Canoa, in piazzale di Porta Cerese, in viale Mincio, in piazza Anconetta, in via Castiglioni, in piazza Martiri di Belfiore e in corso Umberto.
Per prelevare e restituire le bici bisogna utilizzare una tessera elettronica che si ottiene all’iscrizione.
Per iscriversi occorre andare in uno dei tre punti convenzionati (la sede di Mantova Parking in via Nagy, la Casa del Rigoletto in piazza Sordello e al checkpoint per pullman di Sparafucile).
Source – MANTOVA IN BICICLETTA
Source – BICI In CITTA
Belgians Riding
“Freddy Maertens, rockin’ a Five and Dime in Rule 9 conditions on the Muur de Huy.”
“Each morning when I wake up it is a fresh fucking disappointment to me that I was not born Belgian”.
Source – BIG RING RIDING
Loch Lomond
“Inspired Bicycles”
Way Back Home is the incredible new riding clip from Danny MacAskill, it follows him on a journey from Edinburgh back to his hometown Dunvegan, in the Isle of Skye.
Source – Way Back Home
