Custom made merinos wool jersey for Les Jambes D’Acier fixie cycling club, by soigneur.co.nz
Really neat.
Tracks
The kit was part of “Collection Prestige”, and is comparable, as per what I read, to Reynolds 591 tubing. Here is some litterature on the topic: http://www.classicrendezvous.com/France/Vitus_history.htm
All I need is a bottom bracket shell: the one I was offered was metric, French Thread, and I felt this was going to be much more complicated to rethread if an accident occured during brazing. I cannot imagine myself looking for such a tool on the Internet today…
Just received a package: NOS Super Vitus extra-léger 971 steel tubes. Unpacking.
Making a Bike Out of Car Parts
Top: Cyclo lever. Bottom: 2 Cyclo rear derailleur. The set must be about 50 years old… ;o)
I luv it!
Maxi Car rear hub; It is BIG. With a 3 speed freewheel.
Kool Stop brake pads for the next 3 years… I think… ;o)
2 sets of Mafac “RAID” brakes. Those are in excellent condition.
Dérailleur Huret with a manual lever. This has been cleaned. Now I need to remove the rust spots and think of the final finish I want it to have. Any ideas?
Projet RedSmaug. A randonneuse with 650B wheels, and modern as well as vintage parts.
More to come.
A ride to and in the velodrome of Bromont: video. Merci Martin Doyon pour le film. I am the guy in green.
A ride to and in Bromont Velodrome
So after 118 km with 47 x 13, I arrived at Bromont’s velodrome. The installations are minimal, and the paint of the floor is devoid of silicates, making it a tad bit slippery.
Nevertheless, Stéphane Lebeau (http://veloptimum.net/Velop/bio/C/StephaneLeBeau.html) provided us the basics of best practices. A world champ giving some time and love for the sport is certainly worth a very attentive listen.
It was so neat, so interesting! Had I not risen so long to get there (4.5 hours), and eat breakfast before going, and eat a plenty while riding (I had a candy bar and a gatorade), I would probably had done better.
Well… I still achieved a couple of 40 -43 km/h (Strava does not see them though…).
I’ll have to do that again!
Bicycle Dreams
A complement to the book Hell on two wheels.
Hell on two wheels
An excellent book about RAAM. Personal aspects as well as some reflections on the meaning of RAAM, the riders, the challenges of team work in the context of RAAM and some instructive aspects relative to pain management. Recommended.
