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’.

The November 2011 Photo of The Month (PoTM) contest was won by lewis1641′s ‘Nocturnal’.

Now taking nominations for the December 2011 PoTM contest entitled Reflection:D

Click here to see lewis1641′s shot in all it’s glory (more…)

Now have new black and brown peaked beanies in stock in the *all new* Retrobike Shop > Retrobike peaked beanies.

Don’t forget we are doing some great Christmas deals too, check them out here > Retrobike Xmas Specials 2011.

The The November 2011 road Bike of The Month contest was taken by ededwards’ Panasonic PR-6000 – another interesting month, a fine debut win for the man who likes to think of himself as the Raymond Poulidor of Bike of The Month competitions. Second was taken by gavr’s Raleigh Team and third by foz’s Arthur Caygill 653. Bring on December!

The full result is as follows

1. ededwards’ Panasonic PR-6000
2. gavr’s Raleigh Team
3. foz’s Arthur Caygill 653

Now taking nominations for the December 2011 rBoTM contest.

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

Retrobike BIG stickers now in stock, ideal for big applications. Stick them on your disk drive, tool box, arms or car.

Click here to buy the retrobike BIG stickers.

The The November 2011 ‘Made In Taiwan Special’ Bike of The Month contest was taken by makster’s 1987 Jamis Dakota Competition.

The Jamis will be featured in next month’s mbr magazine and Mark will receive a year’s subscription to the magazine.

The full result is as follows

1. makster’s 1987 Jamis Dakota Competition
2. sinnerman’s Orange Clockwork
3. trailboss’ 1991 Haro Extreme Comp

Now taking nominations for the December 2011 BoTM here.

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

New online shop is now up and running here > http://www.retrobike.co.uk/shop/ 8) Have added plenty of stock previously unavailable with plenty more cool stuff in the pipeline for (realistically) after Xmas. Shipping is still free on all UK items and calculated at cost for those outside the UK – which should make international postage more reasonable esp if taking a few items.

Also got the Xmas 2011 Specials online, click here to see the Retrobike Xmas Specials. We are doing hoodie + mug deals, hat + mug deals and 10% on all Endura kit.

Numbers are limited to stock so if you want a combo be quick

This year’s annual Cleland ride aka The WEndover Bash takes place on Sunday 4th December, full details on the forum here. This ride is a must for all fans of Mr Geoff Apps and his bikes.

Fancy an upgrade of that old Kona? An unknown seller with a bike of unknown provenance has something you might like. It’s Charlie Cunningham’s Indian #1.

The four monthly retrobike polls are now up

The Bike of The Month (BoTM) ‘Made In Taiwan Special’ poll for November 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 November 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 ‘Nocturnal’.

The last (but by no means least) poll for November 2011 is the slightly belated poll for the BoTM 98+ contest. Now taking votes here.

Frank Wadleton aka Frank The Welder of Yeti (and lots more bedise) fame is selling his Yeti Ultimate on the ‘Bay, click here to see Frank’s Yeti Ultimate. The auction is to help his friends out who have had a bad run so we hope it goes very big.

If you’ve ever had a Royce hub or bb you’ll know just how high quality a British made bicycle component can be. If you haven’t been lucky enough to be a ‘Royce user’ I can highly recommend it. Even if just to see your own satisfied grin reflected in the shiniest of shiny finishes the bike industry knows.

Here in our latest in the series of bike industry interviews, Retrobike goes behind the shutters of Royce Engineering down in the New Forest. And gets inside the very interesting mind of Cliff Polton, engineer, cycling and pedal car enthusiast and mouse trainer*, who has been at the helm of Royce Engineering for 20 odd years…

* please see question 18.

1) Retrobike: Hello Cliff, how’s business in 2011?

Cliff Polton: Phenomenal. Enthusiastic!

2) RB: Why the name Royce?

CP: It’s got a nice ring to it, sounds like a quality product.

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Uploaded to youtube by Carlton Reid this short you tube clip from Tyne Tees show ‘Chain Gang’ has a feature on Jason McRoy. Part of the feature shows some awesome footage of JMC vs Myles Rockwell on the Reebox Eliminator. Check it out > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mX4qkAbDyyk.

Now taking nominations for our various November contests as follows
Bike of The Month’Made In Taiwan Special’
road Bike of The Month
Photo of The Month entitled ‘Nocturnal’

No excuse not to get involved

Just added the 1984 Fat Chance catalogue to the retrobike fat chance arhive, thanks to James M for supplying the scan