*Los Angelopes*

C’è poco da fare, i video dei Los Angelopes mi gasano sempre un sacco

Amici amici e ti fanno la bici!

Tutto quello che vi serve sapere è nel flyer, per il resto c’è  il thread su FixedForum.

Why you might need more than one

Cycling cartoons by Dave Walker. Dal blog degli orchi.

Clicca sull’immagine per vederla in full-res!

KMV2

Il dRIM tIM organizza (bene) la seconda edizione del Kilometro Violento. E già lo sai che se c’è il dRIM tIM alla regia sarà una bella storia con tanto di sbronza colossale. Poi a ‘sto giro se vai veloce puoi anche portarti a casa una magliettina Pavè Riders, quindi chettelodicoaffare.

7 settembre 2012 – Porta con te una 3euro+2birre / 5eurosenzabirre

Location segreta fino al giorno della gara. Per sapere il dove, tieni d’occhio il blog del dRIM tIM  oppure Fixed Forum.

Suicide Track

A Casorate Sempione si corre per beneficenza. Musica, birra e street cred a fin di bene.

Qua e qua per le info

God bless SVT

Lo streaming di quasi tutte le gare di pista è una goduria pazzesca.

Switching back and taping handlebar

SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: this is going to be the last post in English, from the next one I’ll switch back to Italian. (I will try to add some kind of translation widget, though)

In the meanwhile I’ve been practicing my taping skills and – for being the second time in my whole life – I’m quite satisfied with the result!

I follow this tutorial (in Italian), which I think it’s really well made: Nastare un manubrio da corsa

Happy taping!

Featured on IKEA Hackers!

Our bike rack was published on IKEA hackers!

If you don’t what IKEA hackers is, you should definitively take a look to it!

Our ikea-hack bike rack!

In order to maintain the harmony in the family, we had to figure out a compromise between the dimension of our apartment and the fact that I have no intentions to park my bicycles outside. Although a bike rack  seemed like the most obvious solution, we couldn’t find anything that could meet our needs. So, we decided to build it by ourselves. Our two main goals were: 1) it has to stand without drilling the wall, since we’re renting and we’re not allowed to do so; 2) it has be cheap.

Here’s the instructions for building a cool bike rack, that cost less than 40€ (yes, we are extremely proud of it!)

INGREDIENTS

– Bestå legs from Ikea

– Ivar wooden ladder (30×226) from Ikea

– Ekby Valter brackets (28cm – the big ones) from Ikea.

– Some screws, drill, wood glue, an old inner tube, tennis racket grip, felts

INSTRUCTIONS

Crank Bros VS Shimano

After the forced winter break (winter was coming, you know, and I still don’t get along with the idea of spinning) it’s time to start biking again.

I switched pedal again, ‘cause I didn’t find comfortable with the Eggbeaters. I tried several times to regulated the cleats, with no luck. Probably my mistake was to not used them with rigid shoes and to not be patient enough to find the right position for the cleats.

However, I’ve decided to give a try to Shimano M520. It was love at first sight!

Almost no tingling nor cold feet at the first cleat placement try and clipping in seems to me like the most natural things ever!

Eggbeaters are probably very good pedals (I know quite a lot of people who are enthusiastic about them), but probably they’re not the right ones for me. That’s life!