Happy New Year 2012!

8778 km during 2011, hoping to do a few more in 2012.

Daphny Van Den Brand on the bump run

Daphny Van Den Brand on the bump run, originally uploaded by kristof ramon.

Intense. GvA Azencross Loenhout 2011. Check out the rest at Kristof Ramon's Flickr.

snow and mud at Namur

4ème Manche de CDM cyclo-cross from Petitesreines on Vimeo.

Boonen going for green?

Photo: Tim de Waele/TDW Sport

Tom Boonen with his new glasses for the 2012 season.

Thijs van Amerongen reflected

Thijs van Amerongen reflected, originally uploaded by kristof ramon.

Via Flickr:
World Cup Heusden-Zolder 2011

Cool!

Freddie Merckx

 via tracko.

A fitting pair for Charly Wegelius' tweet from yesterday.

Monte Bondone 1956

Charly Gaul on Monte Bondone, Giro d’Italia 1956.
From GdI’s twitter.

GvA Trofee Rouwmoer

Check out the sprockets!

Aah, cyclocross women

Photos: Balint Hamvas (cyclingphotos.co.uk)

I have always wondered about the aerowheels in the mud.

running water alarmclock

Crescent helracer Nr70

This stuff is already a couple of months old, but it was only today that I had the chance to read the Mobilisti magazine (6/2011). The cover story was about a restorated Crescent helracer from 1935, a Swedish made racing bike. It went from this

to this.

 

Some additional pics here, and at the build thread. Nice, to say the least! Would not mind having that bike...

I noticed that I also was able to contribute a little bit to the story. They had pulled a photo from one of my blogs, the book cover below (there are some spots on the cover).

More info on this book on my other blog (in Swedish).

Below are some scans from a catalogue from 1938, contains info on basically the same bike as the restored one. The following year the models were updated (will maybe post something on that later).  In 1939 there was model Hellberg N:o 1B that was a track bike for the 1940 Olympic games that were supposed to be held in Helsinki. The games were cancelled due to the WWII. The velodrome that was built then is still used. The games were held in 1952.

teaser shot

Teaser Shot from Lung Animation on Vimeo.

la concurrence

check out the rest at guilherme's flickr.

via milanofixed.

little things

Little Things - Bike + Tools from Ryan Alexander Lloyd on Vimeo.

rock'n'rollo

from FixaCWB.

retro racing

A Finnish L'Eroica. More here and here.

a wide line

via Milano Fixed.

my next bike is a cyclocross

from here.

cycling is great!

via tracko.

Finnpower

A new Finnish bike was revealed today. Both name and frame are quite retro.

The frame seems quite high, but I newer cared much for mountain bikes anyway. This one can be yours for 8000€.

Someone doing a faceplant headslide combo.