Recent readings (April 2012)

Photo by cas_ks – Creative Commons licence One Way Road by Robbie McEwen & Edward Pickering Robbie McEwen is one of Australia’s greatest ever cyclists. While the spotlight might be focused on Cadel Evans, McEwen’s career is equally noteworthy. He has won over 200 races including 12 stages of the Tour de France and three [...]

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My new Specialized bike

After riding various flat-barred mountain bikes and hybrids for the last decade I wanted to go back to the speed and comfort drop bars of a road bike. However, I also needed a bike that would stand up to the rough gravel roads and dirt tracks that make up a lot of the roads I [...]

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Cannondale Dutchess – beautiful bicycle design

Wytze’s graduation project for Cannondale from Eelke D. on Vimeo. The Cannondale Dutchess is a a new concept bike designed by Wytze van Mansum, a design student at the Delft University of Technology. The bike is a working prototype, but the bike is not in commercial production. The bike looks beautiful and has many interesting [...]

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Cars are the problem not bikes

Miranda Devine published an incendiary opinion piece attacking cyclists in the Sydney Morning Herald on Thursday. It was in response to an incident involving a cyclist riding a busway. In that incident the cyclist may have been in the wrong, but she used it as a starting to point to launch an all out war [...]

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Cadel Evans says Free Tibet

photo from The Age Cadel Evans wore a Free Tibet t-shirt during the Liege-Bastogne-Liege one-day classic on 27 April. But according to the IOC he won’t be wearing the same t-shirt when he competes in the road race at the Beijing Olympics. The Age reports: AN AUSTRALIAN Olympic hopeful, the star cyclist Cadel Evans, may [...]

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Taking photos on a bike

rear view of the camera mount I saw this mountain bike out in Bali, Taipei County. It had a camera mounted on the handlebars. It is a fairly simple idea and I’m sure you could find the necessary equipment at any good photography shop. It would allow you to create some very cool movies without [...]

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Reflections on the Tour de France

Cadel Evans Well, the Tour de France 2006 edition has been run and won. After being pretty much a one-horse race for the last few years this one definitely departed from the script. Floyd Landis amazing comeback to claim victory is being hailed as one of the greatest ever. Although I think Greg LeMond’s victory [...]

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Le Tour

The Tour de France started a few days ago. I am a big cycling fan and there is no bigger race than le Tour. Australian riders have been some of the biggest stars of the race in recent years. Robbie McEwen is one of the world’s fastest sprinters and has one the green jersey twice [...]

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