No matter how pretty, if it's the wrong size...

Read more: Mapei Dreams

From a frosty start through the fog, to a glorious finish in golden light, The Dirty Gran Fondo served up a boggy delight.

Congratulations to the organisers for a well organised event, and a fantastic course.

Read more: The Dirty One

The end of one project is the beginning of the next. Just ask the most recently infected Rouleur that dropped by yesterday.

Read more: Everyone remembers their first

 
Launched 12 months ago just prior to the 2011 edition of Melburn Roobaix, Creux Cycling is establishing itself as a leading cycling apparel slash streetwear brand.

Read more: Koppenberg Creux

Most Italian cities are a buzz of bicycles any time of the day, but particularly of the evening. Friends going out for a drink, people coming home from work and heading to an osteria, criss crossing the cobbled streets. If you are an 80s tragic you'll see many bikes you'd swoon over converted to town bikes and used to get to the shops and back.

Read more: Veneto

New gloves, lights, chainrings in store, as well as new kit for Melburn Roobaix.

Not to mention these limited FYXO pantographed shifters.  Limited to 10 in the Universe.

Read more: Limited / Unlimited

An out of towner.

Read more: International Campagnolo Collaboration

It may have been wishful thinking, but maybe a little like you I was hoping to refresh the blog and find something new had been added - without me having to compose it.

No such luck.

Read more: The post fairy

Read more: Follow the Campy brick road

A cure for a wheel hangover.

Read more: La Mondayitis

Read more: Vive le tour!

I'm going to write this in one unedited take.

Sh1t news has a habit of travelling at 10 times the speed of good.

Read more: Infectious as ever.

It takes all types.

Read more: The view from here.

The same issue which tore at the fabric of Paris-Roubaix is happening in our own backyard.

Moreland council plans to replace the charming cobbled pavé alleys with fresh bitumen, forever changing the aesthetic of the area.

The essence of Paris-Roubaix remaining Queen of the Classics was to preserve the back country cobbled roads to ensure it didn't become a pawn in the cycling calendar.

Looks like Melburn-Roobaix will eventually suffer a similiar fate - unless the council is given good reason to preserve this cultural identity. As it turns out, one of the planned sectors for 2012's route is the first to undergo Morelands's permenant cultural plastic surgery.

Read more: Same problem. Different country.

Happy Friday!

This one is Rasberry and Blackberry JAM packed with images from the first Melburn Roobaix, photos from Paris and New York, some old stuff and the latest BREV. FYXO chainrings - which you can now get your name, blog or message engraved into. World's best chainrings just got better.

Read more: There and back again

For 'A'weseome.

This is post dedicated to Purple, Plum and Fast Violet.

Read more: File this under 'A'

Take something perfect and make perfecter. Like this Deda Elementi stem for example.

Read more: Here's one I prepared earlier

There is no doubt the popularity of cyclocross in this hemisphere is on the up and up.

Even if you never pin on a number, a cross bike is arguably one of the more utilitarian bikes you could get for recreational riding, racing, commuting, touring and if you've got the skills, mountain biking.

I got my hands on a Trek Presidio to thrash. Here's my 20c for whatever it is worth.

Read more: One bike to rule them all

For a long time I've resisted an 'about' page. I didn't see the point.

Read more: About

The FYXO 'People's Choice'.

Last year I invited Eddy Merckx and he politely declined. He's already made the trip to Australia this year so as much as I'd love to see the Cannibal pound the pave the likely hood is low. Not even an offering of frites and mayo will get him over the line.

However, there is sure to be a string of high profile ex-cyclists, has beens, could have beens, B-list celebrities, and otherwise cool cats that you'd love to roll alongside this year.

Read more: Riding partners