Showing posts from category: cycling
Sunday, 21 May 2017

The Tweed Run 2017 and Cordings of Piccadilly

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I was invited to take part earlier this month in The Tweed Run , that annual tweedy/vintage bicycle ride around London, by my friends at C...
Sunday, 26 March 2017

Vulpine Cycling Clothing: Fit for Purpose

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[Note: I'm sorry to report that Vulpine went into adminisration in May 2017.] Vulpine is a British business making technical and sty...
Tuesday, 31 May 2016

Eroica Britannia 17-19 June 2016

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Rider entries for this year's Eroica Britannia close tomorrow (1st June). Based in Bakewell in Derbyshire, the rides take place on Sun...
Thursday, 24 March 2016

R.E.W. Reynolds cycling shoes: made in England

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Now that spring is in the air it's time to drag out that bicycle, dust it off, oil it and set off along daffodil-lined roads to seek ne...
Wednesday, 10 February 2016

Lancashire Pike Ventile cycling jacket: a fifties classic reborn

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Last year I was approached by Stephen Ball of Lancashire Pike , a business that designs classic outdoor clothing, making it in Bolton, Lanc...
Monday, 8 June 2015

Eroica Britannia: vintage cycling - what to ride, what to wear?

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Eroica is a bicycle ride that can only have originated in Italy, where age, beauty, elegance and history are venerated. Ridden over the dus...
Thursday, 30 April 2015

Summer Jackets 6: Two from Oliver Sweeney

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Oliver Sweeney is in my good books. Its use of an older model for the current spring/summer advertising campaign shows a creative, confiden...
Sunday, 25 January 2015

Carradice tweed bike bags - made in Lancashire, England

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Carradice have been making cycling bags out of cotton duck for over seventy years in Nelson, Lancashire. They now have a special edition r...
Tuesday, 25 November 2014

Shinola - American manufacture and style for sale in the UK

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I came across Shinola recently for the first time when I saw images of some of their products on Instagram. Founded in 2011 in Detroit, Sh...
Friday, 8 August 2014

Karl Kopinski - a portrait painter captures the soul & drama of cycling

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I can remember, as a child, hearing the news of the death of British cyclist, Tommy Simpson, on the sun-baked slopes of Mont Ventoux during...
Tuesday, 15 July 2014

Mr Porter launches the Paul Smith 531 cycle range

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Last week I attended the launch with Mr Porter of a new cycle range by Paul Smith . The collection is named 531 after the Reynolds-ma...