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Bicycles for sale

The workshop has become a little over crowded, so with some regret I'm listing on Trade me the light and fast Puegeot Triathlon, the highly social Bosomworth Freedom tandem and the neither light or fast Healing Cruiser, all Tweed Run veterans.

Serenity in movement

They say long distance athletes are running away from something.

Or maybe they are just trying to exist in the moment, while not standing still.

Howies UK catalog says it better than me.

Arrive smiling

Best combined with a seat mounted bottle opener, this fine use of high-grade leather leaves your hands free for, well, drinking. It also avoids having to put a basket on the front of your bike and be mistaken for a dutch farm maiden.

Crafted by Walnut Studiolo

Tweed Run 2011

Alan, tweed, tandems, beige, devonport and Tequila. Fine day well played.

Bike of the week.

Cycling official’s shock weight gain

-- Mmmmmm, pig hock

He used to be a skinny cyclist; a natural climber whose envious power-to-weight ratio saw him dance on the pedals in a style no other cyclist could match.

But that was last month and countless greasy binges ago.

Now, the only dancing is performed by fat jowls and the wasp nest swinging to its own rhythm under his chin.

And, like the red blood cell count of the Spanish pro cycling team, it looks like the needle on the GBC Chairman’s scales is only going one way – up.

GBC members attending a recent club meeting at German eatery Conditorei Carinthia looked on in horror as their once bird-like Chairman devoured a giant pig’s hock and 23 pints of lager – all before the meeting had even commenced.

Another day, another pig hock - a leaner looking GBC Chairman gets his first taste of pig hock. If only he'd stopped after the first pig.

Nice work Mamachari

What started out in Wellington by Jason and Sarah as an idea to import second hand bikes from Japan looks to now be developing in to a superb bicycle restoration service as well.

Upcycling in it's finest form.

Nice work Mamachari.

Paul Smith. A man of fine taste.

I've always admired Paul Smith for his fine range of gentlemen's attire and general curiosity for all things cycling related.

Lovely to see then that he was not only born in the home of Raleigh but a proud owner of one of it's finest exports.

White Wall BSA

Finished restoring Johns BSA a while back but it taken a bout of the flu to give me time to actually post the results.

I replaced and regreased all the bearings, got the dynamo working for the rear light and put on new grips and tires.

More pics and story here