Single speed - check
Bar mounted bivi gear - check
Tweed tailored apparel - check
Comedy facial hair - check
Wider bars - check
Awesome wheel size to out roll a 29er - check
Fork mounted foot rests for descending - check
Slingshot prototype - check
Whats not to like?
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Not solid tyres?
Which one is TJ?
Not solid tyres?
Pre pneumatic? Perhaps.
Rigid forks and tyres FTW
You missed out 'custom made luggage' 😉
That guy on the right is pure hipster 🙂
What tie would you recomend to go with my Rapha tweed?
Can't wait for their next edit to drop. It's going to be so dope.
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A time before fat...
I like that guys feel it's still necessary to have a bell, perfect for gentlemanly overtaking maneuvres on deserted mountain passes.
At Raphas Nocturne this year there's a Penny Farthing Race.
Liking their cap style "helmets" and them fork mounted footrests would be a God send on the Pleney
The bike second from right looks more like a Trimble than a Slingshot! They all look awesome, I'm all over this, I think I'll start a company making custom solid tyres 😉
are the fork foot rests there because they are fixies ?
and they've ridden to the top of col du wherever without a gazillion gears
[i]and they've ridden to the top of col du wherever without a gazillion gears [/i]
uplift. there are kneepads a plenty under that tweed
Oxford bags and lashings of brylcream are where it's at...my Grandad on the left (must be where i get it from)
[url= http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5209/5290960170_a76d36240d_z.jp g" target="_blank">
[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/rocketdog/5290960170/ ]my Grandad and his mates[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/rocketdog/ ]rOcKeTdOgUk[/url], on Flickr
Dude on the right has mad steez....
Is there anyone who isn't using Instagram for their pics? Bloody sepia filters.
and they've ridden to the top of col du wherever without a gazillion gears
I watched a crowd of riders go up the Galibier last year ( 100 year celebration).
They were on vintage,wooden rimmed single speed bikes.
I didn't see how far up they went,but it made us all think about whining a bit less,as we grovelled up there the next day,on our light weight modern kit. 🙂
Love it.
Tubeless for sure.
that first photo is awesome
i would love to chat to those guys and buy them a beer
Nothing new under the sun.
We just get more cynical by the year.
And you think you're joking...
Good grief! 😯
Where is the first photo taken? It reminds me of Yosemite but doesn't look quite right. That said cycling Yosemite in 1898 would be pretty impressive.
Solids tyres excellent
the niche for those who find even ridged forks to comfortable and uncommunicative....
Great photo RocketDog!
Do you know where it was takem? One to recreate for sure!
Where is the first photo taken? It reminds me of Yosemite but doesn't look quite right. That said cycling Yosemite in 1898 would be pretty impressive.
Could well be, I got the image from an American friend.
bit later than the first one, but early moonting:
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That pic is great, was on bigringriding a few months ago.
ALL GOOD MEN AND TRUE, AND DRESSED LIKE F***ING CHAMPIONS.
Slightly bigger and better quality version of the [url= 
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I love the second guy from the rights piercing stare.
What tyres for.......... 1898 Megavalanche?
Probably wooden ones! 😯
Original photo:
Flat pedals...or...flat pedals, I guess.
And none of them are wearing helmets; I bet they're all dead!
It's from [url= http://www.bigringriding.com/post/16884242002/all-good-men-and-true-and-dressed-like-****ing ]here[/url]
Apparently it's Norway (or Sweden).
That photo blog also includes the story about Henri van Lerberghe
HENRI VAN LERBERGHE, THE ‘DEATHRIDER OF LICHTERVELDE’, RIGHT NOW.
HE TURNED UP ON THE START LINE OF THE 1919 TOUR OF FLANDERS STRAIGHT FROM THE TRENCHES WITHOUT A BIKE. HE BORROWED ONE, ATTACKED THE FAVOURITE JULES VANHEVEL IN FRONT OF HIS OWN HOUSE, AND STOPPED IN SIGHT OF THE VELODROME FOR A COUPLE OF BEERS BEFORE THE FINISH.
HE STILL FINISHED 14 MINUTES UP ON THE FIELD, DESPITE BEING SO WASTED HE HAD TO COMPLETE HIS LAP OF HONOUR ON FOOT.
Markie - MemberGreat photo RocketDog!
Do you know where it was takem? One to recreate for sure!
i do know but recreating it might be difficult it's now a dodgy council estate, progress eh?
What I like most is that they're wearing ties. A chap's got to have standards.
the first photo looks like it was taken from the area around a town called Odda, Norway
My missus is from there and says she maybe recognises the scenary
HENRI VAN LERBERGHE, THE ‘DEATHRIDER OF LICHTERVELDE’, RIGHT NOW.
HE TURNED UP ON THE START LINE OF THE 1919 TOUR OF FLANDERS STRAIGHT FROM THE TRENCHES WITHOUT A BIKE. HE BORROWED ONE, ATTACKED THE FAVOURITE JULES VANHEVEL IN FRONT OF HIS OWN HOUSE, AND STOPPED IN SIGHT OF THE VELODROME FOR A COUPLE OF BEERS BEFORE THE FINISH.
HE STILL FINISHED 14 MINUTES UP ON THE FIELD, DESPITE BEING SO WASTED HE HAD TO COMPLETE HIS LAP OF HONOUR ON FOOT.
Legendary...
Some more info about the photo here: http://www.dirtragmag.com/webrag/follow-fascinating-photo
And yes, it is in Norway.
yes its just to the north of Odda near a small place called Aurland
Very very very nice area
skin suits have always been "in"
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Rocketdog, I think they may be a circus act. What comedy bonnet for the big top?
Nothing new under the sun.
Yep - those forks, although rigid, are Kashima coated.
The bars are the new On One 'Yard Wides'
and the tweed jackets are from Rapha's 2012 'Fjord Collection' co-designed by Stella McCartney.
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"Have it lads" 😆
It's an ace picture and it certainly makes you think about how much easier we have it it today in many ways.
Recently finished reading A Race for Madmen by Chris Sidwells which is an interesting biography of the Tour de France.
The historical stuff from back in the day is by far the most interesting aspect of it all- stories of guy's like that Van Lerberghe chap mentioned above abound, strange to think how different people were back then.
If I remember correctly one guy descending a high mountain pass in the tour broke his frame, and this in the days when they were not allowed any outside help to complete stages. He had undertook a blacksmith apprenticeship years before and so set-off looking for the local blacksmith which he found, repaired his frame himself in the forgery and then completed the stage 😀
Came across this on Retronaut yesterday:
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First Tour de France
http://www.retronaut.co/2011/08/finish-of-the-first-tour-de-france-1903/
Top stuff, guy with his hand on the bike looks like he is on the verge of getting the thousand-yard stare.
Chap next to him in the white seems in pretty good spirits still though 8)
i know its been posted before, but i give you retro cross:
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http://ncncacx.blogspot.co.uk/2010/08/vintage-cyclo-cross.html
they're wearing ties. A chap had to have standards
Saw this pic by Loch Ness this week. If you're about to die trying to set the world water speed record in a jet powered boat, at least dress smartly chaps.
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(It's John Cobb)