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Queensland Bike Trials at Rockatoo Esk, AUSTRALIA. 21 Aug 2013 | 06:21 am
A photoset of Round 4 of the 2013 Queensland Trials Series at Rockatoo, Esk, Queensland Australia – 18th August 2013. All images by Robert Cobcroft
Lewis Wickes Hine – his Bicycle Messenger Portraits 12 Aug 2013 | 11:49 am
“HE IS A MESSENGER BOY DURING THE DAY. MESSENGERS GO TO ALL PARTS OF THE CITY. HE IS A GO BETWEEN. AS ERRAND BOYS THEY CARRY MESSAGES BUY MEATS, LIQUORS AND DOPE FOR PROSTITUTES, OFTEN GUIDE MEN TO TH...
Australia’s Bicycle Riding Shearers of the Early Twentieth Century 31 Jul 2013 | 10:25 am
THUMBS UP – BIRDS FLY After photographing the well presented shearer’s bicycle at Pushies Galore, I had to find out more about these men who rode bicycles thousands of kilometres across Australia’s h...
Kumo Cycles Constructeur Ranodonneur 22 Jul 2013 | 09:32 am
Randonneur bikes are fast becoming the sensible and practical choice for riders who recognise that while racing is not their chosen profession, there is a flexible alternative in touring style bikes. ...
Pushies Galore Brisbane Australia 2013 16 Jul 2013 | 07:12 am
Brisbane Australia, weather 2013, we used to say about Queensland, beautiful one day perfect the next now it’s turned to raining one day shitty like Melbourne the next! Sunday and Pushies Galore looke...
Pieroni Time Trial Bike with PMP Cranks 12 Jul 2013 | 07:05 am
In “time trialling in the 1980′s a racer’s guide” I may have taken an amusing and perhaps smart-arse approach in exposing the benefits of steel bikes, yet inadvertently as readers of Velo Aficionado ...
Time Trialling in the 1980′s A Racers Guide 11 Jul 2013 | 07:41 am
The 1980′s Columbus or Reynolds Time Trial bike Compared to a 2013 Carbon Race Machine. Use any of these tools or tips the way they did in the 80′s, on your modern carbon time trial bike and you’ll v...
FACTOR BIKES Vis Vires – Technological Game Changer 4 Jul 2013 | 06:24 am
Now a bicycle has become a complete package of a performance enhanced machine, running an integrated data acquisition system akin with Formula1 race cars. At the beginning of the 1988 road season I’d...
Thaddäus Robl Cycling Motor Pace Champion of The World 28 Jun 2013 | 12:32 pm
Every time I delve into the world of Australian cycling around 1900, the pieces of the jigsaw appear before me, as if saturated by the most intense colour, each colour in turn imbued equally with an e...
GREAT CYCLE RACES OF ALL TIME – The 1898 Australian Natives’ Association Wheel Race and Gold Stakes Scratch Race Series 26 Jun 2013 | 04:20 am
“The World’s Prize” “In the open air an unusually immense crowd gathered to witness the important bicycle programme which ran into the night.” The Australian Natives’ Association (A.N.A) Great Fete....
