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A joint win for Mad Cow Kev's Roberts D.O.G.S.B.O.L.X and 24pouces Cannondale. Look out for the Bike of the Year vote coming soon...

Time for some Muc-Off ??

This article on a 'retro' 10 speed MTB cassette conversion has been written by Omar R. Esteves from Caracas Venezuela. PART ONE I am an old man who has been experimenting and tinkering with all kinds of bikes for a good part of my life, including mountain bikes in the last twenty five years or so. During all this time I have seen quite a lot of good ideas (not including terrible ones) on bikes and bike equipment fly away to obscurity only to come back some years later as the latest innovations. For a few years, I had been reading that now when we have mountain bikes with 9-speed cassettes in all imaginable ratio combinations and from various manufacturers, some people insist that these are not suitable for mountain bikes...

Alarm wakes me up. No not the alarm that I may have missed that Ti BB that someone posted on retrobike whilst I was asleep, but the alarm on my phone. Get dressed, with a slight twitch as I glance the laptop out of the corner of my eye (something may have been asked that I could answer, or a new tip added). Jump on the modern bike for the ride to the station, almost crash as I imagine I’m on the ’95 S-Works FSR; again! On the train now, with laptop bag, cursing Chiltern Railways for not having wireless on the train, drumming fingers, tapping feet, with the look of an addict who hasn’t had their fix (you know the look)….. Ok, onto the tube, I know there’s nothing I can do until I get in…walk...

Hang your Tricolors and sing the Marseillaise, it's another Gallic winner. Skides Yeti Ultimate wins the RetroBike BOTM competition for November 2007... Watch out for Decembers competition in the Forum...coming soon...

Seeing as we're genrous types here at Retrobike HQ thought we'd offer a pre Christmas mega deal on 2008 calendars, t-shirts/jersyes and stickers. Deal 1 £25 - Calendar, T-Shirt & Stickers. Save £5.50 Deal 2 £40 - Calendar, Jersey & Stickers. Save £6.50 Terms and details of how to order here.

Following discussion between the mods and a few recent events we have decided the classified section needs some formal rules. - All adverts to include a price. - Parts must be in owners possesion before offered for sale. - No trade ads. Mail admin@retrobike.co.uk for trade advertising details. - Dibs are non-enforceable and strictly at the sellers discretion. - Abuse of classifieds will result in a temporary ban at the moderators discretion. Two misdenmeanours will result in a permenant ban. - It is preferred that all adverts include full details and a picture.

What a winner, not only a fabulous looking bike and great build, but also able to take all that the peak district could throw at it and more !!!

Last weekend saw 18 intrepid RetroBikers take on the challenge of the peaks, read how we got on in the Forum

We at Retrobike Towers are proud to announce that the 2008 Retrobike Calendar is back from the prnters and ready for dispatch. Be one of the first to get your mitts on our somewhat ltd edition 2008 Retrobike.co.uk 2008 desk calendar featuring 12 smashing pictures of retro machines in action, some just posing and a calendar so you can make note of any retro meets that may pop up in future, all bound together in a neat CD case that'll stand happily on your work desk, home mantlepiece or bike shop counter. They're a snip at £11 and available in the retrobike shop. We haven't got too many, so don't delay, grab your's today!

Thats right, the Autumn meet is upon us.. Tomorrow morning an intrepid gang/gaggle/group (what is the collective term for RetroBikers ??) will set off from hayfield for a merry old jaunt across the peaks.. expect mechanical failure, awesome annodising, and more stories of how we could all have been contenders !! See y'all there... if I'm not still stuck on the M25 at Heathrow....

Winner of the inaugral Photo of the Season award for Summer was this shot by Andy Heading featuring none other than yours truly. Look out for the next competition which will be a Winter Wonderland special.

"This is the true tale of a personal journey into the heart of darkness. A passage lined with fear and loathing, heartache and despair, fascination and longing. A journey punctuated by learning and discovery and humiliation and realisation. A bicycle ride through the wilderness of the captive soul, passed desperation and drug addiction, public nudity and lost inhibition towards an awakening and a lost horizon. This is my Apocalypse Now. Sort of. " Click here to read on apocalypse; noun - 1 an event involving great and widespread destruction. 2 (the apocalypse) the final destruction of the world, as described in the biblical book of Revelation. nowt; noun - Northern England colloq or regional dialect meaning Nothing originates from...

Retrobike's James Webster recently completed the Isle of Man End to End race in an excellent 25th place. Full report here in the forum.

Ben aka Pace taking on the night canoe stage BlueCrest Capital Management, sponsored by www.retrobike.co.uk, took 5th place in the 2007 Cisco Euro Challenge in Donegal Bay, Ireland. The all male team shone in the 4½ hour mountain biking stage to take 4th place, rising to 7th in the overall classification. BlueCrest continued their rise up the leaderboard in the night-canoeing stage to secure 5th place overall going in to the final day, a position they maintained through the construction stage and the final 10km orienteering stage set on the outstanding beach and precipitous sand dunes surrounding the surf-town of Bundoran, to achieve their best ever finish in the event. BlueCrest’s ladies team, also sponsored by RetroBike...

As the European arm of the Intelligent Sport® World Series, an international programme of high energy, strategic team events, the Cisco Euro Challenge will test competitors to the limit. Over three days and two nights the teams will be faced with a number of mental and physical challenges where stamina, intellectual agility, strategy and decision making ability are vital. RetroBike has teamed up with BlueCrest Capital Management to support their teams in this year's event in Donegal Bay, Ireland, from 13th-15th September. The top teams from the Cisco Euro Challenge will qualify to represent their company and country at the World Team Challenge on the French Riviera in December. It is here that they will compete against some of the...