Just bike stuff

This post has been inspired by two recent and different conversations. One with a group of motorcyclists and the other with a group of cyclists, and the common theme between both was not about their bikes or recent epic rides, but cafes, their location and their ratings in the opinion

There’s a saying that your memories should never be bigger than your dreams, although our memories and experiences do shape who we are as individuals. This post covers some of my memories, the now, and (one of) the dreams/aspirations, and all are connected by a strong Dutch thread. Let me

Once upon a time, and in quite recent living memory, our High Streets had record shops, book shops, magazine shops and even kite shops. Today, there are few of these shops, if any, as we well know. Fortunately, whilst the number of cycle shops has reduced, there is still a

Back in November 2022, I wrote a post (link at bottom) about the vintage bike market, and questioning whether it was dead or alive. I can confirm that it is still alive, but not quite kicking. The restoration of bicycles has some way to go to catch up to the

Stoogeness Abound is a term I’m using to describe the rides I have on my new Stooge Speedbomb. In addition, I reckon my new term also sounds like the name of a weird rock group, and taking a slight Stooge-type-detour in this post, this is how I imagine the band,

Like a lot of people who are passionate about ‘vintage stuff’, I’ve been playing in the ‘vintage velo and Moto markets’ for quite some years as a buyer-seller-hobbyist-projecteer. This means, like a lot of people, and maybe you, I’ve had tremendous fun restoring, and riding, and selling, and buying vintage

Definition of the word ‘Moment’: A very brief period of time OR if you’re into physics, it is a mathematical expression involving the product of a distance and physical quantity. Now we’ve got this definition out of the way, let me explain the relevance and context. I’ve got some MTB