The color of my frame C50 Expreme Power is reproduced for Japanese market as CTO

There might be now a reason to build new bike with Campa Super Record Electronic set.

Stormy Boxing Day ride

Some cut timber and sea where use to be fields.

Christmas Cyclocross ride

Terribly wet, windy and slow ride today. Red Fulcrum Zeros got rain tyres for this ride. Thank you Belgians for the Cyclo Cross sport and fine recovery drinks like the blue one!

Bicycling's 50 Golden Rules

Bicycle Racing, Training, Nutrition Advice | Bicycling Magazine:

'via Blog this'

Oh yeah. My C50 Extreme Power Italian tricolori painting is available in Japana in C59!

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Brand new DeRosa Merak with Super Records

The beauty is brought from Italy as sovenier. Concratulations Petu, true work of art and rare bike in Finland.

Lunch brake in Kellokoski, at Cherif

Minä Vanha Valtatie , Tuusula, Uusimaa, Etelä-Suomi, Suomi http://maps.google.com/maps?q=60,535875,25,111701

Colnago C50 Italia Di2. Just beautiful White and Silver version arrived in Helsinki to wait open roads after heavy winter

Sorry about the picture quality.  I should always carry with me my Leica to serve my dear readers with decent pictures. Anyway this bike is just adorable. Another wheelset is chosen: white DT Swiss set - just perfect with color and decoration. Integrated Pro stem/handlebar - also white with black geometric decous like the frame. Sadlo will be Selle SanMarco: white + black carbon.
The frame looks really great in real life. Here is the studio picture by Colnago.com to compensate my lousy picture. As you can see, it's pretty close to the limited edition of 59 bikes.

Congratulations to lucky owner of this nicely fine-tuned great bike - happy miles my friend!

It looks like we have a road cycling friendly restaurant in Helsinki

La Table
Ravintola La Table
Ludviginkatu 3-5
00130 Helsinki
puh. 09-673236
info@latable.fi

Roudies, try this bistro when you'll be in Helsinki

The Inner Ring: recyclingnews.com ?

The Inner Ring: recyclingnews.com ?: "The image below is a cropped screenshot from cyclingnews.com this evening. I've annotated it to show where the stories come from. You can cl..."

Shame on you "real journalists". This piece of good detective journalism is by fellow blogger Matt -The Inner Ring

Great collection of vintage bikes: Velo Classics

Velo Classics

Here is some pictures from Velo Classics blog by "Skeet Skeet"
This is the introduction of his impressive collection
"Welcome to my vintage bike blog. I will be featuring some of the 50 or so bikes from my collection as time permits. My collection consists of Italian vintage bikes from Colnago, Cinelli, Masi, Bianchi, Gios, Olmo, Geurciotti, Basso, Grandis, Pogliaghi, and Tommasini. I also own several Zeus (Spain), Austro-Daimlers (Austria), Schwinn Paramounts (USA) Merciers (France), a Liberia (France), a Raysport (Mexico), a Windsor (Mexico), and a Trek (USA)."

Video: Designer Paul Smith Talks Cycling - BikeRadar

Video: Designer Paul Smith Talks Cycling - BikeRadar

He's my style hero, "Classic with a Twist"
One day I'll be riding a city-bike designed by Paul Smith, wearing total city-cycling-outfit.
Paul, this is a brief for you.

Cannondale SuperX - The bike of Finnish Cyclocross Champion

This is the next bike of Finnish Cyclocross Champion Kimmo Kananen.

He has test-driven the bike and compared with the previous frame CAAD9 the new one is as stiff but there was plenty of more comfort. Blending the carbon technology of Cannondale hardtail mountainbike Flash with th eproven geometry of the CAAD9 Cross, SuperX is good-looking and probably very fast bike. Here is the marketing rap of the month from www.cannondale.com:

SuperX is crafted from BallisTec carbon fiber. Developed for ballistic armoring, this allows SuperX to shrug off rock impacts that would cripple other carbon frames. 

Hey guys there in Cannondale R&D or marketing department, no mention of any ball-protection benefits? It might be good feature when jumping on the bike during the race. Maby pretty wide new Fizik Tundra (must be the choise here in Tundra region) will act like shock-absorber.

Anyway great frame with great desing. The craphic desing is one of the best in 2011 models.

Brand new Colnago World Cup. Guess who'll bring it to good home soon?

 

My friend Aleksi will get himself one of the nicest birthday presents just few days after the party.

Isn't it beautiful.

The winner in Mud party at Kopperberg is Sven Nys - the 8th victory at row

Samenvatting

When the conditions are as slippery some experience is needed. Sven at 34 of age and Colnago Cross Prestige got it.

Here is race report in www.cyclingnews.com