The Bike That Jack Built

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Blue MAX 

Strada Bianca in Pistachio

Bill's Strada Bianca

Eriksen-built frame with Campy, Moots, Ambrosio. The fork is a slight departure for us, being from Seven, but it provides ample room for the 32mm tires.

Brakes by Velo-Orange - everything just fits, doesn't it?

Kent sweats the small stuff...

Don't that look like the perfect combo?

Andy and boar head logo...

Ready to ride!

Steve Jobs, R.I.P.

Peloton Interview Part 2: The Fascination Continues

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"Wow! This is so French... or something!"

Andy talks with the Fat Cyclist - lengthy but some real gems here.

Andy Hampsten: The Fat Cyclist Interview from Fat Cyclist on Vimeo.

The Twins, Reunited

Richard and Rich, together again. Think Rich is wearing his new leather moto jacket?

From Chuckie Ibis

Oregon Manifest was fine, I'm sure, but this looked like a ton o' fun.

Embarrassment of Riches, Department of

New Alex Singer book from Jitensha just arrived, who needs sleep?

The Green Train

Strada Bianca MiniMAX for HampCo hisself, needed a new winter bike or something. MiniMAX 28.6mm TT and 31.8mm DT, Zona curved CS, 14mm Spirit SS, Spirit ST, Wound Up fork for 57mm-reach brakes - should be light and comfy, has clearance for 33mm tyres, Clarance. Paint is Pistachio, decals are our New Beige. On the site soonish.

Cinghiale Cycling Tours

I'm just back from Andy's Cooking and Cycling Tour in Castegneto Carducci and what a fantastic trip it was! Fun folks, excellent food and wine, and superb riding and events. I'll have more pictures and a better report soon but here are some teaser shots and the dates for the 2012 tours are right here. Great stuff!

From the vaults

Tournesol/Parlee the First.

MAX!

New MAX model (finally) features MAX TT, DT, CS, Enve 2.0 fork and our own selection of ST and SS. 29mm tires and short-reach brakes work fine here, shines on crappy roads, colour is our new Federal Blue. Rides like a burly dream and we'll have it on the website soon.

"diesel"

Bicycling Magazine looks at our Strada Bianca, struggles to understand steel, fenders, and the joys of riding dirt roads. October issue probably includes five things you can do to ride faster - would not quantifying every ride count? Hampsten boys reported nonplussed, decide current marketing plan roaring success.

Travel Bikes!

NY Times has a nice piece here, we got a mention. Loving my travel bike this week, btw...

peloton

patrick still likes us...

aftermath

After a hard-ridden D2R2 (Deerfield DirtRoad Randonnee) Richard Sachs (l) discovers his favorite plastic fork is missing. David S looks on with glee.

Department of Arbitrary Randomness

Some website tweaks:

Gran Paradiso price increases $100 but we include the Enve 1.0 fork as standard.

Tournesol now features a complete lack of frames that aren't lugged; adieu welded T'sol.

All that work, I think I need a cocktail.

Di2 for Darren

A little Kent Eriksen-flavored loveliness here for Darren... Di2 Electronico... nice wheels... the local water...