ADL + ANL

Built up a dynohub wheel this morning for the ADL (All Day Long) as next weekend I will be riding the Dusk til Dawn solo. The E3 Supernovo is awesome powered from the dynamo so hopefully no stopping for battery changes for me this year. ADL can now go All Night Long.

Full shake down of the bike tomorrow

If next weekend goes well might consider going back and trying to do the 150 mile Lakeland Loop in 24hrs next year...

Quarterre & Milk at Look Mum No Hands!

All of this week the mega-cool Look Mum No Hands cafe on Old Street is hosting a show as part of the annual London Design Festival. Fittingly, the show has been put on by local industrial design team Quarterre who have designed a range of really unique and functional 'bike furniture'. We helped out by supplying 'models' to show how the furniture looks in-use...

The first three products are to do with bike storage - a problem in any major city where space comes at a premium. Check out these website and below for more information about Branchline (below), Shadow and Hood (my favourite).

The guys from Quarterre have put together an amazing display, so if you happen to be in the area do drop by - it'll give you an excuse to have a couple of coffees and maybe even a bit of cake!

Downpour !!

So tonight the BBC weather got it wrong and instead of sunny spells on the way how it was heavy showers. I was doing a long ride round to the club hill climb. It was raining when I left work but half way to the hill climb the heavens opened and there was a deluge that was like standing under a waterfall for about 3-4 mins. I was soaked to the bone and the roads were running like rivers. I decided not to continue to the hill climb as I did not want to get cold standing and headed home through the flooded roads.

It’s days like these that the RDA really makes sense and I know we designed the right product. The disc brakes stop you in the wet. The dynamo light shines while the skys are getting darker. With a chain tonight the lubricant would have been washed off and the last half hour of the ride would have been very noisy. The belt made no noise at all.

Best of all i know I can roll the bike out of the shed tomorrow and not need to do anything except get on and ride ;-)

Tony's Bike

Soon to be cruising the streets of London town

Geoff's RDA-11 Winter Training Bike

The first Milk machine to roll off of the line was Geoff's winter bike. I don't particularly like racks, think they look ugly (even though I have one on my bike!), so really enjoyed seeing an RDA built up in this guise - clean, neat and tidy. 

Hackney Wick Gets Bullet'd

Uber graphic designer and man behind the Sharpie (other permanent markers are available!) livery, Ed Stubbs, let the Bullet prototype loose on the area of East London known as Hackney Wick... it may never be the same again! Check out what he managed to capture on his blog and on the Milk flickr feed...

Milk Bikes Stem

Milk Bikes Stem
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