northside wheelers

Blooming......

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Thanks to Lindy for putting together my new hanging basket with its Worlds rope
Love it !!

Summer days

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Been away ....but now I am back

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January has been a busy time not with work but with the enjoyment of hanging with friends ...sharing lots of laughter and some tears along the way .

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Australian Road Nationals

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I had fun watching those guys go very fucking fast up that hill ....

While I was on holiday I did a bit of this and that ....

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What a cracking day...

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Happy New Year to all of you
ENJOY

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Views from the saddle

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Holiday

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So I am going to take a little break over Christmas , thanks to all who have visited and supported my store.
I will be back on board around the 9th Jan .
Enjoy your Christmas break

Beer,pizza and ice cream

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Caught up with my very good mates Paul and Anna the other night , Anna has just given birth to their second little cheesecake Orlando .... Ta-dah !!

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The joy of riding around

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It's a busy time down at the shop and stuff is coming in and going out and it's great cos I can do it all on my bicycle ......

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Busyman

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I got Mick to make me some personalized Northside Wheeler wallets and I am really happy with them .
There will be some available to sell in the New Year plus some other Mike Peel ( Busyman ) products.

Bright light city...

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The Art of cycling...

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Doing it in style....

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Motta so dominated the field in the 1967 Giro d' Italia that he had time to eat a plate of spaghetti and laugh for photographers.

It cost me $6

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I came across this book at the Mill Market in Geelong hidden under some old newspapers ....
Mysteries abounded,waiting to be unraveled,as Kathy and her research group took their
BICYCLES NORTH !

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On and off the bike...

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Jacques Anquetil oozed style.

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Iconic Italian design ridden by the great Belgium

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Aldo Gios prepared bikes especially for Roger De Vlaeminck.
He rode one of them in 1977 to win the last of his four Paris-Roubaix victories.
I love the Gios Torrino and I am very happy that I have found one of my own to ride ....

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It's been a long time between...

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It seems a shame to sit on it ....

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This is my new saddle that Mike Peel AKA Busyman Bicycles did for me .
His work is quite stunning and my photo does not do him justice.

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The sun came out today...

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and everybody who's anybody was on a bike .

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Found objects

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Style... You've either got it or you ain't

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Testing the legs...

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This is a little race story about a Kiwi called John Harris who raced
Quebec - Montreal in 1991, race distance 275km.

After racing solo for 190km John was caught by Gervais Rioux and some of the Evian Team , he went on the attack again and got away to win by 30seconds
John never drank much and only had 2 bidons for most of the race but in the last 25km he drank nearly 4 liters of coke
After the race John spoke to the media about his win
" I almost cried, having won such a classic race.Our manager had told me that I had to win, because they had entered a Team 12 times and not won it yet "
This is John just after the race.
Thanks to John for the photo and gayle for the little story .
I love the solo breakaway !!

Mixing it with the guys

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During the early post-war years,
many randonneurs participated in competition. Here Lyli Herse leads
Lucien Detee (right) and R.Martinez (left) as part of the winning team in the Coupe Rene Herse 1951, a 100km team time trial.

What you looking at ?

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Out 'n' About

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Circus Posters

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Together as one...

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Many Rene Herse tandems were used in competion.Here,Jean Dejeans and Paulette Callet descend at speed in the 1943 Poly de Chanteloup hillclimb race on their way to second place.
Photo courtesy Paulette Porthault.

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Rene Herse

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In these publicity photo's from 1962
Rene Herse demonstrates the very first " Demontable " in front of his shop.The shop window lists the first five of eight French championships his daughter Lyli won throughout her professional cycling career.
Photos courtesy L.Herse

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Dreaming...

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" After your first day of cycling,one dream is inevitable. A memory of motion lingers in the muscles of your legs,and round and round they seem to go. You ride through Dreamland on wonderful dream bicycles that change and grow "
H.G. Wells

Get on your bike and ride...

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This is a great advert from the Raleigh range circa 1977
( source: Poler tumblr.com )

It's a balancing act...

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"The journey of life is like a man riding a bicycle. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. We know that if he stops moving and does not get off he will fall off."
William Gooding.

The legendary Karl Wallenda , right
and his troupe performing in 1957

1960's Italian Style

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Lest we forget

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What will you say of the bond we had, tender comrade
Will you say that we were brave
As the shells fell all around us
Or that we wept and cried for our mothers
And cursed our fathers
For forgetting that all men are brothers

Tender Comrade Billy Bragg

Hey !!

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There's a storm brewin

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"Hath fortune dealt thee ill cards? let wisdom make thee a good gamester. In a fair gale, every fool may sail, but wise behavior in a storm commends the wisdom of a pilot; to bear adversity with an equal mind is both the sign and glory of a brave spirit."

Obsession

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" I wonder if it's possible to have a love affair that lasts forever "
Andy Warhol

Frank Viva...

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has cycled his way along the streets of New York, through the desert of India, up the hills of Ireland, under the Moroccan stars, and around the vineyards of France and Italy.
He is an award-winning artist and designer, this is his first children's book .

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Gasping for breath

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The leading riders toil through the pass of the Sentinelle mountain on the lap from Avignon , during the 1960 Tour de France.

Innocents abroad

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Andy Hampsten and Greg Lemond during the 1982 Tour de I'Avenir.

C'mon jump on board....

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Out with the old and in with the new

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' The notion that two rivals can coexist has always been difficult.
But the multitudes who love the explosion of competition hope that they can remain friends off the bike.On occasion it even makes sense to pretend to be,though it's much better still if you manage for real.'
Gino Bartali

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Across the river...

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I travel Southside from the Northside to my little shop, recently I went to visit my friends at Commuter Cycles in Brunswick

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Ska'd

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Rockers

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Colour on a grey day...

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