Recent content by non-fixie

To give you an idea: the 2023 aftermovie:

Tickets for next year's Retro Tour of Flanders are now available. I just got mine. :) Ever felt the need to walk up the Paterberg, Koppenberg or Molenberg? This is your chance! 😁 An there's music too!

Pullers for 23mm (Spécialités T.A.) and 23.35mm (Stronglight) are readily available, and a useful addition to any vintage bikewrencher's toolbox. If you can find a tap in one of those sizes, that would be my preferred solution. Not sure if a 22mm tap will do much good anymore.

Welcome, @Wimpawipa ! Nice gift! With a few changes that would be eligible for L'Eroica. Add non-aero brake levers, downtube shifters and pedals with toe clips and Bob's your uncle.

I certainly thought so. And in a strange way it is also very beautiful.

Chiesa di San Pietro in Vicoli. I'd read about the Italian risorgimento and the battle of Solferino before, but wasn't prepared for this. There was no room to decently bury the thousands of soldiers who died during and after the battle, so their remains were stored in this converted church...

Chiesa Parrocchiale di Santa Maria Nova in Cavriana, Lombardy:

Basilica di San Pietro Apostolo in Goito, Lombardy:

Church in Badesssa, near Siena, which' shape was rather difficult to capture on a photograph:

Mrs non-fixie and I just came back from two weeks of rigorous bicycle testing in Italy. Hard but necessary work. After loading a quartet of machines into and onto the team vehicle ... ... we proceeded via German Autobahns and Austrian Alpine passes towards the testing grounds near Lago di...

Chiesa di Santa Maria in Monteriggione, Tuscany. One of the many churches along the Via Francigena:

Ha! :) No, really. I like the Campag-esque thumb buttons, that they're 7-speed and that they're cheap. A cheap & cheerful solution for brifterising an old 7-speed bike.

My Union Rini Wagtmans against the Basilica di Sant'Andrea in Mantova. It's a big 'un.

Very nice. I have a soft spot for those Sora brifters. I prefer them over the other Shimano offerings of that period.

Church of the archangel Michael in Monzambano: