Posts Tagged ‘Raleigh’
New York City Bikes
New York’s streets have the best bikes. Let’s look. Like any big American city, the streets are full of Schwinns. If it isn’t a Varsity converted to single speed hipster everything, it’s a Collegiate, a Suburban or a Sprite. Still the best colors to this day. Fantastic graphics on this Huffy. And this Peugeot… … […]
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Tags: adeline adeline, bakfiets, bobboe, bridgestone, huffy, new york city, peugeot, Raleigh, rollfast, WorkCycles
How a Bicycle is Made
Fantastic 1945 short from the British Council film collection on how the Raleigh was made. It was one of the greatest mass-produced bicycle operations in history.
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Tags: bicycle, film, mass-production, Raleigh
The new LBS
Oh. Hello. I nearly forgot this was here. Today I’d finally had enough of the slow leak. I had a flat twice a day. I would usually have patched it myself but time for that sort of thing is in short supply with 3-year-olds in the house. So I took my Raleigh to the new […]
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Tags: bicycle, bike, lbs, Raleigh, repairs
My in-town doppelgänger
Hello, friend.
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Tags: bicycle, bike, doppelgänger, Raleigh
Return to Raleigh
Back on the Raleigh today after nearly a week breaking in the bakfiets. Riding to work felt like I’d stepped out of the on-deck circle and slipped the donuts off my bat. The old steel of the Raleigh rode like it was built for the Tour in comparison. I like to talk about frame weight […]
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Tags: bakfiets, bicycle, bike, carbon, frame, Raleigh, steel, weight
