CRANKTASTIC

Bikes, roads, mayhem

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Story to go with this video is here 

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we gonna wheelie tho

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What’s worth it? Getting away from my desk at lunch time and just pedaling out frustration. Nature. Um... friends and the shower beer after a 100 miler. 

[dudeseriously]

That was one hell of a good time. Until next year, Descend!

[thismachinekillscobbles]

Specialized / Rocket Espresso Team Allez

[ridebyshooting]

Third time lining up for the Dirty Kanza. Second time finishing (let’s not talk about last year). Was hot and windy and hard. I wrote something. It’s here. 

Excerpt: 

The Kanza is a shape-shifter of the highest order. You do your best to predict its mood and train, and plan, and plot, and count things out on tables, and be as absolutely prepared for it as you can be. But the Kanza will do what the Kanza wants with you. On the day. You can’t control that. The only thing you can control is how you’re going to handle it. It is a 200-mile ride inside your own mind and sometimes you won’t like what you find. There’ll be questions and answers. Love and hate. You’ll swing wildly from mood to mood and from truth to lies and back to truth again. You’ll walk to the edge of want and maybe you’ll decide that it’s not worth it that year, and that’s OK. And sometimes you won’t even get to decide—the Kanza will say “I am the decider!” and break your bike in an attempt to break your spirit and that’s another test entirely. Does it piss you off? Does it make you cry? Does it make you feel like the tallest person on earth? Who are you? Did you find yourself out here?

Read the whole thing. It’s here.

[cranktastic]

Read more about Erik Nohlin’s design inspiration for this bike here https://www.specialized.com/us/en/red-hook

[rollersinstinct]

Illustrations from Jan Cleijne’s lovingly illustrated Legends of the Tour which looks back at some of the great moments of the Tour de France. Whilst the stories are likely to already be familiar to many of you, his illustrations more than bring them to life.

[californiastreaming]

F/M/K , Friends Romans Countrymen edition

[bikedweeb]

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[hello-velo]

Photo by willemsizoo

Connect with Hello-Velo on Instagram @tommy_takeiteasy

[bikedweeb]

When cycling met typography - we’re teaming up with the #DesignMuseum for a cycling headbadges #FontSunday - head over to twitter on Sunday to join the fun! (Photo taken from A Cycling Lexicon, by #carterwongdesign) by boneshakermag http://ift.tt/1rum6MP

[classicvintagecycling]

Banking.

[rollersinstinct]

The Italian cyclist Ado Moser carrying his bicycle over a pile of snow during the 20th stage between Madesimo and Stelvio during the 1965 Giro d’Italia. The Giro heads to the high mountains tomorrow with the first rider over the Colle dell’Agnello taking the Cima Coppi title. The Giorgio Lotti photograph appeared in The Guardian’s look back at the Giro’s history 

[allthingscycling]

by @jeredgruber: This quick break from the Dolomites brought to you by @castellicycling and @mattibreschel. I begrudgingly admit that there are other beautiful places in the world outside of the #yolomites. :-) May 23, 2016 at 02:48PM http://bit.ly/1XPDOXR

[someoneisalwaysfaster]

source - @dtswiss

[youcantbuyland]

For some people Sundays are for rest. For some people riding bikes with friends is rest.

“I’m with you on this one, totally”