Brakes Are Dead

28/06/2025

Boardwalk, lakeside and fixed gear

07/06/2025

Some rain must fall ⛈️🌧️

26/05/2025

Not my monkey, not my circus 🎪🤡🙊🙉🙈

25/05/2025

Pogi? Preno? Hindi ako yan

08/05/2025

HHAHAHAH skill issue Malala 😆🫵🏽

08/05/2025

IYKYK

26/04/2025

Anti Bonjing nga eh 🥱

15/04/2025

Velo Hoods or Hannya Brakeless Hoods?

13/04/2025

Fixed gear in Paris-Roubaix 1896 💀

This fine gentleman is Josef Fischer of Germany, the first winner of Paris-Roubaix back in 1896. The race was conceived by two Roubaix businessmen, Maurice Perez and Théodore Vienne to publicise a velodrome they’d just built, and the ambitious programme of track meetings they planned on it.

They enlisted the help of experienced race organizers Le Vélo magazine, who sent their journalist Victor Breyer to design a route. Not knowing the area Breyer simply drew a direct route between Paris and Roubaix on a map, then followed it.

He didn’t know that hundreds of coal mines, steel mills and factories, often barely 100 metres apart, had changed the countryside. Mining subsidence buckled the roads and warped the houses, while heavy coal carts lifted loose stones and spread mud and coal dust everywhere. All the roads in the coalfield were cobbled, and the cobbles were appalling.

Breyer drove the first leg from Paris to Amiens, where he stayed overnight. He set off into the coalfield, heading for Roubaix by bike next day. By the time he got there he thought the idea of holding a race in this part of France was crazy.

He was cold, wet, muddy, exhausted and determined to send a telegram next morning asking his boss to cancel the race. But after sleeping on it, Breyer saw the epic potential of Paris–Roubaix.

Josef Fischer was pretty epic himself, he covered the 280 kilometres in 9 hours and 17 minutes, an average of 30.16 kph (18.74 mph), reaching the velodrome 25 minutes ahead of the next rider, Charles Meyer of Denmark.

When he arrived, the crowd, who’d been enjoying some track racing, were shocked by his appearance. He was covered in coal dust and mud from the roads, and with dried blood from frequent crashes.

Only two other riders finished within an hour of Fischer, but he was remarkably casual about his victory. “The race was quite easy for me,” he told reporters. “You must be strong to ride so far over cobblestones, and I’m strong. I know that about myself.” Gut gemacht Herr Fischer!!

📸Cycling Legends Collection

12/04/2025

Di sya makapaniwala; sumakay daw ako sa truck 😥
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