With the Tour of California in the rear view now, I figured I'd start wrapping up the past two weeks if I can only begin to recall them....

I now leave behind Amsterdam and the Giro and make the long trip back to Basel before heading straight to California. Ivan, while warming up...

All props to La Rueda Tropical for the concept and the awesome Photoshop work. This is most definitely an old article (over a year old!) bu...

So the long weekend presented many opportunities for some training d'epoca. This entails my best wool jerseys, clips and straps, and cli...

So my late purchase at the Reggio swap were these two old signs. A rusted out Legnano and a heavy "cardboard" Bianchi, both terrib...

Simon at La Gazzetta della Bici recently resparked some interest in the Lampre-Caffita Battaglia Italiana event and bikes that we did back ...

Italians love (in no particular order): Mamma, calcio, ciclismo... and motorcycles and cars! I got tipped off that there was to be a big vin...

Tucker had his cataracts surgery yesterday and I got to pick him up today. Poor little guy looks really rough. The outer corners of his eyes...

So with all the vintage bike talk around here lately, I thought I'd channel the great Aldo Ross and his demonstration of shifting the Ca...

On the way home from Italy recently, I purposefully made a 'wrong' turn onto the A8 towards the airport, forcing me to turn around a...