Pretty OT

Ok so it's not about bikes this time, only about the best band from Holland (make that the world) at the moment. Aux Raus.

We've been waiting for this album ever since coming across their first album (This is how this works) in August of last year.


Some people will call them Eurotrash (some people even call me Eurotrash...) but you can listen to their
new album 'The brick is in the air' here and judge for yourself.

There's also a great live performance from the last Lowlands festival online here.

Enjoy!

Frames we've sold

Earlier in the year Mick Peel aka busyman bicycles visited our shop looking for a track frame for his brother Ged, down under.

He settled for the RIH and after a couple of months they finally completed it, sick.

Make sure to check out Mick's blog for more pictures of the bike and to admire his great craft in reworking vintage saddles into custom one of's.

From the U.S.A.

Tour de Ville has sponsored Christine D'Ercole with 2 sets of discontinued, vintage Shimano Dura Ace track cleats...D'ercole's pedal system of choice. D'ercole, who hails from Brooklyn, New York cleaned up at the Trexlertown Atlantic Regional Masters & ELITE Track Championships 2009 taking Masters Gold for the 2Km, Match Sprints, Silver in the 500 Meter Time Trial and Gold in the Elite Qualifier Scratch Race. D'Ercole successfully qualified for the National Championships to be held in Colorado Springs next week. We wish her good luck!

Willy DeVille 1953 - 2009

With sadness, Willy DeVille is no more...

Bradley Wiggins interview

Nice interview with London's Tour revelation Bradley Wiggins in today's Guardian.

New shop pictures

After people had been asking us I realized that we didn't actually have that many pictures of our shop on the website. Luckily John Autry and his pal visited our shop recently (all the way from the U.S.A.) and took some very nice pictures.

Find all of them here.

So if you haven't visited our place yet or if you live on the other side of the globe (I'm talking about you here Andy White) this is your chance to check us out.





I must say that some of them reminded me an awful lot of this:

Velobase.com

I've recently spent a great deal of time on www.velobase.com

"your vintage cycling database" or in their own words:

"The goal of VeloBase.com is to provide a comprehensive database of vintage cycling knowledge for reference during everything from restorations to general maintenance to researching the cycling history through the equipment of the time. All of the content on the site was added by its members, truly making it the cycling community's database."

Off course there are others like Classic Rendezvous, Wooljersey (temporarily down) and Bulgier.net but I've found Velobase the easiest to use so far.

The catalog of parts is pretty comprehensive and it will allow you to really start nerding out about the correct model / type / year of your vintage bike build.

Enjoy!

Helmets do save Lives !

We don't mean to drag that old cow out of the ditch again, besides we don't even sell helmets, but they do save lives.

Here are two stunning recent examples that especially highlight the fact that being confident, experienced and able on the public road doesn't always mean you won't need one.

Pro cyclists generally don't come any more experienced than 37 year old German Jens Voigt. Luckily he is ok but look what happened at 55 mph.



This story is just so out there we don't even know what to say....

Just remember to watch out for firefighters and bumps in the road.

Stephan Vanfleteren does Mt. Ventoux at night

Belgian photographer Stephan Vanfleteren moves through the Belgian cycling world like a modern day Robert Frank.

A selection of his work was on display in London in 2007 at the Honduras gallery. A lot of that work can also be viewed on his website.

For the Belgian Tour de France tv show 'Vive Le Tour' Vanfleteren wanted to cycle up the Mt. Ventoux, at night.

Intrigued by the moment that darkness turns into light again he wanted to arrive at the top by dawn.

Watch the video short here.

Tour de Ville in August issue Procycling

Tour de Ville features in this months (August) issue of ProCycling.

To settle the debate once and for all they have teamed up with Francais de Jeux's sport physiologist Fred Grappe to measure the difference between a vintage road bike and the modern day equivalent.

We supplied them with a vintage Pinarello Super Record to be tested by 6 top French riders.

For the results of the test go: