Bike porn

Here’s what a hundred grand looks like at wholesale …

It was a Bianchi, in this same Celeste color, that first got my race bike juices flowing like 35 years ago, a bike so impossibly expensive that I thought I’d never get one. Many years later, Lee bought me one with tip money saved up from Court Street Coffee… thank you my love!

The Manx Missile’s launcher

It’s all so high tech, so carefully orchestrated, with radios and support vehicles and all of it. But at the end of the day, it’s a guy riding a bike and trying not to get lost. 

This is a student project that got featured the other day. Of course Vlad grabbed it and had a seat. 

How things have changed… in the 70s they had 10 impossibly hard gears, toe clips, and (gasp) steel frames.