Month: March 2011

Ausilia and Sebastiano..setting records at Iditabike – Alaska

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Some selected photos taken from Ausilia Vistarini’s blog: A Great athletic achievement to say the least. Ausilia is the first female Italian to finish the Iditarod Trail Invitational and she did it on a Crisp singlespeed snow bike. Sebastiano Favaro, her boyfriend and companion for the adventure, participated for the second time in this event, … Read more

Giacomo gets his new ti bike

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Darren, sei grande! La bici e’ stupenda, e’ proprio come speravo che potesse essere. Comoda, precisa, stabile… ma anche reattiva e rigida. Ad alta velocita’ non ha nessuna reazione strana, assorbe benissimo tutte le asperita’ dell’asfalto. Freni, imposti la curva e sta come su un binario. Non si scompone mai, non salta, non impazzisce. Pero’ … Read more

One more reason to move to Italy…

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Because this kind of stuff never happened when I lived in Mississippi… National champs Andy Schleck (multiple stages and 1st YR at Tour de France, Amstel gold, L-B-L) and Fabian Wegmann (Giro KoM) for Team Leopard/Trek. Mugged them as they were getting cash from the ATM. Nice guy AleJet, Alessandro Petacchi on his way to … Read more

The Framebuilders’ Collective “ASK” forum is online!

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The TFC website has been updated, folks. After a get-together at NAHBS in Austin, we were able to further develop our criteria for the website and discuss ways to implement our collective ideas. The first of these is a live forum where framebuilders (both novice and expert alike) can participate and use as a resource … Read more

NAHBS – 2011, Part 3

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Welcome to the party..premium beer courtesy of Sean at Vertigo Cycles. Here’s a custom Pegoretti, note the new carbon fork on these frames. These were developed in-house by Dario to exceed the standards of torsional stiffness found on typical carbon forks. Dario explains that today’s carbon forks are very rigid longitudinally, but their weakness comes … Read more