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Grey Fox

A mature search for style. Fashion and menswear for all men.

Showing posts from category: vintage cycling
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...
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...
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...
Saturday, 28 June 2014

The Bike Show - celebrating The Tour de France in Yorkshire

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Yorkshire proudly hosts the start of the 2014 Tour de France in July and The Civic, Barnsley has celebrated with BIKE SHOW ; an exhibiti...
Thursday, 10 April 2014

L'Eroica Britannia - a vintage cycle ride comes to the UK

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L'Eroica - a ride for heroic bikes and riders For some years a wonderful cycle ride has taken place annually in Tuscany. L'E...
Wednesday, 17 July 2013

Vintage cycling jerseys - a Tour de France special

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I promised many months ago to show you some of my vintage cycling jersey collection. The Tour de France provides the excuse.  I love th...
Wednesday, 24 April 2013

Cycling jacket nostalgia

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What did cyclists wear in the days before lightweight and breathable rain capes (or waterproof jackets as non-cyclists call them)? A common ...
Wednesday, 12 September 2012

La Madonna del Ghisallo - patron saint of cycling

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The Italian love of cycling, religion and style come together at the chapel of La Madonna del Ghisallo on Lake Como, Italy. Grateful competi...
Sunday, 20 May 2012

Hollywood Rides a Bike

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Published earlier this year, Hollywood Rides a Bike - Cycling with the Stars  fuses glamour and style with one of my favourite pastimes - cy...
Friday, 13 April 2012

Cycle Style by Horst A Friederichs - celebrating bicycle style and culture

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I've talked before about the influence of cycling in my search for style as an older man. I've thought for a while that there's ...
Tuesday, 3 April 2012

Scarves - still useful despite the warmer weather

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As Spring arrives I find that my warm woolly scarves emerge less frequently. However, a lighter weight scarf comes in handy for those chilli...
Sunday, 4 March 2012

Vintage track cycling jersey - 1968 Skol Six Day Race

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This track cycling jersey is from the 1968 Skol Track Cycle Race in Wembley, London. Six day racing was tough; it started with individual ri...
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