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By Guy Redshaw April 15, 2018December 29, 2020 Road bikes

The bike brand thats (quite probably) completed the most Tours De France

If you’re a cyclist, a ‘bike’ has pedals and no engine. If you’re a motorcyclist, a ‘bike’ has an engine and no pedals. So, the ‘bike’ brand that has appeared in Tour de France photos the most and (quite probably) completed the most since the 1930s, is of course, The

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By Guy Redshaw April 15, 2018January 19, 2022 Cannondale

Spoke Tailor

Back in the early 1990’s, ’Spoke Tailor’ was the title of an article about the great fashion designer, Paul Smith, and which appeared in one of the Sunday paper colour-section-magazines. Whilst the article gave a chronological cycling tour of Mr Smith, it focussed on his latest, new bike. It was

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