The three monthly retrobike polls are now up

The Bike of The Month (BoTM) poll for January 2012 is now up, click here to get your votes in now! Ensure you use your vote wisely this month, the winning bike will be featured in MBR magazine and the winner will receive a years subscription to the magazine.

Road Bike of The Month (rBoTM) poll for January 2012 is also now up. Click here to get your votes in now!

The third poll for this month is the Photo of The Month poll now up here. This month’s topic is ‘MudWinter’. Which is presumably why EdEdwards has submitted a photograph taken in June.

The 2011 road Bike of The Year (rBoTY) contest saw yo-Nate-y’s outstanding 1981 Chris Chance Criterium take the win from some stiff competition. Second spot was taken by DancingJack’s Klein Quantum Pro and third place shared by Mark34′s Battaglin and Retroian’s 1974 Holdsworth Pro.

The top three are as follows

1st – yo-Nate-y’s 1981 Chris Chance Criterium

2nd – DancingJack’s Klein Quantum Pro

3rd equal – Mark34′s Battaglin

3rd equal – Retroian’s 1974 Holdsworth Pro

Click here for more details (more…)

The 2011 Bike of The Year (BoTY) contest saw Sinnerman’s box fresh 1990 Zinn Z-753 take a well earned victory from some top notch competition. Second spot was shared between hollister’s Ritchey Team Comp and mr_ship’s 1994 Yeti ARC.

The top three are as follows

1st – Sinnerman’s 1990 Zinn Z-753

2nd equal – hollister’s Ritchey Team Comp

2nd equal – mr_ship’s 1994 Yeti ARC

Click here for more details (more…)

Today is the last chance to vote for your Bike of The Year 2011 and road Bike of The Year 2011. Make sure you get your vote into today, polls end 23:59 on 21st Jan (i.e. tonight!). Click here to vote for your BoTY and here to vote for your rBoTY.

Privateer magazine are currently in Portland visiting Chris King and others. Lucky them. Whilst with King they toured his factory (check the magazine for the full story I’m sure) and also managed to get some great pictures of King’s personal bike, a 1993 Yeti ARC soft tail. The bike has some great detail like loads of King trickery including a prototype adjustable bottom bracket. King apparently used this as his main ride up until ’08 – chapeau! Anyhow check the post in the forum for more pictures and detail of Chris King’s 1993 Yeti ARC.

The 2011 Retrobike National Event Series was a resounding success, with rides regularly attracting over 40 like minded retro enthusiasts, having a great time on some quality trails.
2012 promises to be another amazing year for Retrobike riding. Not only are your regional area groups in great shape with rides regularly being organised, but we’ve also put together another cracking National Series to entice you.

The National Series is the cream of the Retrobike rides squeezed into a seven round series. We’ve done our very best to spread them around the United Kingdom, offer some of the very best trails and also make the series completely free to enter.

Full details can be found here.

With Retrobike rides proving ever more popular we are delighted to announce that once again www.mybikefood.com will be supporting our series. They will be supplying us with complimentary drink supplements and water bottles at all our national events.

Retrobike member Milko aka Matt Burton has had several of his illustrations published in the latest issue of Peloton magazine. The illustrations can be seen in issue 9 of Peloton which is out in the UK this week, full details on the Peloton website. Check Matt’s website http://www.milkoillustration.co.uk/ for more examples of his work.

The The December 2011 road Bike of The Month contest was taken by Retroian’s 1974 Holdsworth Pro – a well deserved win. Joint second was taken by Syn-crossis’ Kuwahara and Citoyen du Monde’s Maasi. Bring on 2012!

The full result is as follows

1. Retroian’s 1974 Holdsworth Pro
2= Syn-crossis’ Kuwahara
2= Citoyen du Monde’s Maasi

Now taking nominations for the January 2012 rBoTM contest, the poll for road Bike of The Year 2011 is also now up.

Click here for more details and full results (more…)

Paul Brodie kindly sent us this article regarding one of his current projects at Flashback Fabrications. Enjoy

Who is Paul Brodie, and what does he do in his shop? This is a good question. On Velocipede Salon I read recently that I’m a “framebuilder who made some pretty good frames in the 80′s and early 90′s.” Not much has been heard from me (bicycle wise..) for about a decade, so maybe I’m a “has-been”, a washout…

Here’s the truth: back in those days I had a dozen employees at the high point, and I was frantically running around trying to manage (in no particular order..) employees, payroll, lawsuits, lawyers, magazines, ads, distributors, WCB, PST, GST, fire code regulations, landlords, shop leases, accountants, book-keepers, new products, trade shows, race team, frame production, R&D, brochures, Test of Metal race, warranties, marketing, customers, sales reps, tubing orders, and more. I wore too many hats, and don’t think I did any of the above particularly well. I spent little time on the shop floor actually “making things”… (more…)

The December 2011 Photo of The Month (PoTM) contest was won by eastcoaststeve’s ‘Reflection’.

Now taking nominations for the January 2012 PoTM contest entitled ‘Mudwinter’

Click here to see eastcoaststeve’s shot in all it’s glory (more…)

Very rare to see one of these on the open market, which is already reflected in the price with several days left. The Breeezer Type II auction can be found here and discussion in the forum here. This bike was built from Reynolds 531 by Joe Breeze himself back in 1980, enough said really

Which was your favourite road Bike of the The Month from 2011? Now is the time to decide which of the worthy rBoTM winners will take the coveted title of Retrobike road Bike of The Year (rBoTY) 2011.

Winner will get a some retrobike swag – a mug, hat and some stickers.

Poll will end 21st Jan. 2011 23:59 GMT, get your votes in on the poll thread now.

The December 2011 Bike of The Month contest was taken by hollister’s Ritchey Team Comp.

The Ritchey will be featured in next month’s mbr magazine and Hollister will receive a year’s subscription to the magazine.
The full results is as follows

1. hollister’s Ritchey Team Comp
2. audi-allroad’s Klein Adroit
3. johntomjoe’s Raleigh Activator

Now taking nominations for the BoTM January 2012 contest here.

Click here for more details and full results (more…)

Which was your favourite Bike of the The Month from 2011? Now is the time to decide which of the worthy BoTM winners will take the coveted title of Retrobike Bike of The Year (BoTY) 2011.

Winner will get a some retrobike swag – a hoodie, mug, hat and some stickers.

Poll will end 21st Jan. 2011 23:59 GMT, get your votes in on the poll thread now.

The three monthly retrobike polls are now up

The Bike of The Month (BoTM) poll for December 2011 is now up, click here to get your votes in now! Ensure you use your vote wisely this month, the winning bike will be featured in MBR magazine and the winner will receive a years subscription to the magazine.

Road Bike of The Month (rBoTM) poll for December 2011 is also now up. Click here to get your votes in now!

The third poll for this month is the Photo of The Month poll now up here. This month’s topic is ‘Reflections’.