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1/6/10 - Site Projects & Update
Things got too danged wacky into the holidays, so I had to pull the plug on updates for the last couple of weeks of 2009. If you sent me photos and a writeup, it's in the queue more than likely. My ethical dilemma at this point is whether to include those bicycles in the 2009 site counts or consider them as 2010 entries. Wow. I have "fiscal year" issues...

The 2010 Calendar looks like it is going to be a February through January affair this year. I'm going through images and getting hi-rez versions right now. Please do not order anything until I make an official announcement to the blog, twitter, here and online groups of note.

Thanks - no - a HUGE Thanks! to those folks who made year-end donations to the site. I really appreciate your support of this no-longer-so-little venture. As traffic and entries have crept ever upwards, so has the cost of running this enterprise. It's always gratifying to hear that this collection of images and bicycles has helped or inspired others.

This week will be a little sparse, but things should start rolling again into next week,

Thanks again for your support and enjoyment! Here's to a great MMX!

12/11 /09 - Friday Batch
Five posts in five days - today we're focusing on the Working Bikes - stout, strong and ready to take whatever you can dish out - wb118, wb119, wb120, wb121, wb122. wb123

12/10 /09 - Thursday Batch
Finally posting some beautiful rigs to the Cross Bike Gallery - despite my own inability to actually get my butt and bike out onto a CX course this season... ahh well, there's always SRCX next year. In the meantime - check out these fast and fancy rigs - cx53, cx54, cx55, cx56

12/9 /09 - Wedesday Batch
Wow! Three batches of Current Classics Gallery updates in three days! See... I told you to check back this week! Look for some Working Bike and Cross Bike love later this week!

In the meantime, your updates are these: 746, 747, 748, 749, 750, 751, 752

12/8 /09 - Tuesday Batch
Another bunch of fine bicycles for the Current Classics Gallery - from the little known to the actively sought-after - 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745

12/7 /09 - Monday Batch
Didn't get anything posted last week, so let's make up for it with 11 new bicycles in the Current Classics Gallery - 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736

Check back this week - made a pretty good dent in the backlog - which are all rarin' to go! (Or, update announcements are made to twitter, which does have a handy RSS feed as well.)

11/28 /09 - Saturday Update - Because We'd Rather Have You Looking at Bicycles Than Watching Football...
Lucky 7 updates to the Current Classics Gallery - ending on a stunning Cinelli! 719, 720, 721, 722, 723, 724, 725 Quite a nice group of bicycles...

11/27 /09 - End the Short Week Right
Simplify your Friday by contemplating these uncluttered singlespeed bicycles - 272, 273, 274, 275, 276, 277, 278

11/23 /09 - Start the Short Week Right
Now, I'm certainly not condoning ignoring work and surfing the new bicycles in the Current Classics Gallery, but you know everyone else has already taken off there's really no harm in it... 709, 710, 711, 712, 713, 714, 715, 716, 717, 718. Leave room for seconds...

11/18 /09 - Current Classics Updates
A very nice and diverse set of rides this batch - curiously enough two Surly Travelers Checks arrived at nearly the same time. Interesting to see how the same frame can be set up in such different ways. Bikes is always innersting stuff, eh? 701, 702, 703, 704, 705, 706, 707, 708

11/17 /09 - HEY! Waitaminiute!
Did I really never upload these two entries to the Cyclocross Gallery Page? Yikes! (Kinda how my 2009 cross campaign has been going...) Well, withouth further ado, a fast looking Bianchi Roger Singlespeed and a rugged looking Paul Milne CX bike. Sorry for that bit o' delay!

11/16 /09 - Working, Working, Never Shirking...
The Working Bike Gallery adds five new "thought-to-be-lost" entries, including a gorgeous Project Rwanda bike build - 113, 114, 115, 116, 117.

11/11 /09 - Big Seven Oh Oh!
The Current Classics Gallery rolls up to the 700 bicycle mark! Wow! Thanks to everyone who has submitted bikes (and the many who are patiently waiting for theirs to appear...) The new Classics: 691, 692, 693, 694, 695, 696, 697, 698, 699 and of course, #700.

11/10 /09 - Singlespeed Redux
Getting things back in gear by finally posting some of the single-geared bikes - check 'em out here: 261, 262, 263, 264, 265, 266, 267, 268, 269, 270, 271. Thanks for your patience and enjoy!

10/4/09 - Start Your Week With Some Singlespeeds
Nice variety of singlespeeds added to the gallery, with entries from both Denmark and Columbia - man! I'm going to have to go back through the pages and see how many different countries are represented now... 252, 253, 254, 255, 256, 257, 258, 259, 260. Enjoy!

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I've started tagging on this little helpful widget to each gallery page. It lets you email other bike junkies directly from the page - no more copying of the url necessary! You can also share it via Facebook, your blog or any number of other interwebby locales.

Twitt, Twitter, Twitterest -
I'm not sure this will stay, but I've added a twitter feed down a bit in the center of (it should show up right below my t-shirt photos.) My plan is to use this announcements of site updates. You can follow along here if you are a-twittering, or there's an rss feed as well.

Year 4: Cyclofiend.com 2008
Year-End Wrap-Up:

Submissions for 2008:
Current Classics: 166 bicycles
Cross Bikes: 13 bicycles
Single Speed Garage: 90 bicycles
Working Bicycles: 27 bicycles

Total Gallery submssions in 2008 (not including "Revisions"): 296 Bicycles -thank you one and all!

There are a total of 975 bicycles presented in the four main galleries.

T-Shirts Designs Now Available.
"I've Got Downtube Shifters...And I Know How to Use Them!" Cyclocross "More Cowbell" Long-sleeved T-shirts have arrived - now available to order - check 'em out here!

RBW Section Updates:
They will continue to expand, as I've got more things to get scanned and added, but there are now model-specific pages for the Atlantis and Romulus/Redwood models.

Also, I've redone the file architecture to make links a bit simpler - each one can be found by adding the model name to "cyclofiend.com/rbw/". For example, you could use cyclofiend.com/rbw/quickbeam rather than using the ".html" ending as before. (They are now separate directories rather than specific pages). This may matter more to me than you, but it should simplify things a bit. (The old links will just redirect, so you don't need to edit any links you may have.

Enjoy!

Other Notes -
A few people have indicated that they'd rather not have a link to the their email address in their gallery page. That can certainly be arranged, and I'd updated the FAQ section earlier this year to reflect that.

The default is that I include it, but other options are available More here.

2/3/08 -
Sheldon Brown
1944 - 2008

Rivendell has posted the interview they did with him in RR25 a few years ago. All across the net, memorials are blooming and recollections shared. We owe him a debt of gratitude and should feel lucky to have enjoyed his precense. His family have now posted information for memorial gifts. There have been a few reports of Sheldon Brown Memorial Rides which took place on April 1st, which was Sheldon's day of product prankery. Harris Cyclery has managed to act as a KOF for this year's offering.

Sheldonbrown.com

I've been reading my blog favorites via Bloglines - at the recommendation of alex w. Bloglines lets you easily aggregate feeds to one handy page. It also quickly generates a button for people to subscribe to your feed - You know what's next...

here's mine:

Thanks to everyone who has taken the time to send in all the photos and descriptions - it wouldn't be possible without your efforts!

Your Donation Helps
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Slightly Older News -

Rivendell Owners Bunch
After the bikelist.org RBW email list has ceased, I've decided to admin a RBW Owners Bunch email list via Google Groups. More info on the RBW page.

2007 NAHBS
Photos, Videos, Reports & such
2007 North American Handmade Bicycle Show in San Jose. I messed around a little with my new video camera, so there's some jerky, noisy footage if you follow the links here. Did manage to get a short interview with Tony from Pereira cycles. In short - what a great show!

While I'm Thinkin' About It...
Riding partner and Master of the Useful Hack JimG has started an interesting thread on his blog, called "Chameleon Bikes," showcasing bikes that can adapt across a range of uses. Of course, I'm biased because he was kind enough to put my Quickbeam in there, but you should check it out and send him some photos while you're at it. JimG also recently added an "Unofficial Kogswell Page", similar to the Rivendell Page found here.

Thanks for your support!
I want to thank those of you who have taken the time to support the site through your donations. As the word has gotten out about the Galleries, my bandwidth usage has grown noticeably, and I've had to upgrade the server package to stay ahead of it. Even a few bucks through the Donation button below helps out. Thanks too for your emails - I appreciate all your kind words about the site.

Random Photos Hint:
If there is a bicycle you see in the random photos at the top of this page, you can either <control>+click (mac) or right-click (windows) and "View Image". The name of the image should appear in the address window of your browser. The number which appears before the ".jpg" extension is the number of the bicycle in that gallery. For example, if you see 22.jpg, then that is the image for #22. You should be able to find that bicycle reasonably quickly. Yes - I know it's a work-around, but it's the best I've got right now...

Current Classics and Single Speed Galleries now have Thumbnail Preview Pages, where I've aggregated the images.

'm always looking for Ibis Catalogs or scans to fill in the missing years in the Ibis section - that means the complete stuff from 1996, and the years from 1990 to 1993. as well . Early items appreciated, and if you own a time machine, please go back and tell me not to toss out the Fat Tire Flyers when I was moving...

-- Jim

Items of Interest
on Cyclofiend.com:

Portland Handbuilt Bicycle Photos
Courtesy of iBob Ken M.

Workshops of the iBobs
A post on the iBob List prompted this little gallery. Want to show off your tool board? Check out how other iBobs deal with a 6 foot ceiling? This is the place!

Current Classics Gallery
A Gallery of Classic Bicycles, built reasonably recently or still lovingly ridden. Also viewable as Current Classics by Maker, or via the Thumbnail Image that appears randomly above

Cyclocross Gallery
Here's where you can find racing bicycle - with a twist: just bikes for racing cyclocross. Not all of them actually get raced, but they could if they wanted to. Either way, they definitely get dirt under their nails.

Single Speed Gallery
One gear at a time. It's interesting how many of the bicycles so are are actually single speed roadsters - I thought that most would be mtb's, but one-geared coastables seem reasonably popular on the roadways! Also viewable by Thumbnail Image.

Working Bikes & Practical Hardware
To say there is a wide variety of bikes in this section just doesn't come close. Some are adapted, some are purpose-built, some just ended up mutating into a Working Bike. Some would argue that all bicycles are working bicycles, but hold your judgement until you view the Working Bikes Gallery.

Gallery FAQ page
The gallery needs your photos - yes, they are good enough and doggone it, people like them! If you don't understand the whole "Current Classics", "Cross Bike", "Single Speed" or "Working Bike" Gallery thing, start here. It also has a few suggestions regarding photographing your bicycle

Cyclofiend Blog
Most of my bike-centric natterings tend to show up on the iBob list or the RBW Onwer's Bunch Group, so the blog tends to some ride reports, gear reapir details, other thoughts and musings, more nattering about projects and gear, some stuff that is decidedly non-cycling like dogs, orchids and the ongoing record of music which pops into my head while riding.

Rivendell Bicycle Works Section
There's a fair amount of RBW stuff here, and I've still got a good deal to add to it. This section of the site began because it was hard to find photos of Rivendell stuff on their site, but since the redo a while back, it's started to focus more on the different models, current and past, and mines through the Rivendell Readers, Catalogs, Flyers, Mailers and other ephemera which I've collected ever since GW smacked me upside the head with a Reader and said, "Hey, you like more interesting bikes, check this out.!".

Ibis Bicycles
After some discussions on the iBob list regarding model years, I started working on a reference page for Ibis Bicycles - which contains scans of catalogs and other stuff which came from The World According to Chuck Ibis. Last Addition: Cousin It & Touche Tandem catalog scans from 94/95.

I've also added a couple of pages to the riding notes section. It's not much to speak of yet.

Thanks to everyone for their kinds words of encouragement - this is great fun!

Keep those photos coming!

-- Jim

PS - I may not keep this on the site, but check out th "Ow!" section... It's not quite what you'd thnk.

updated: January 6, 2010

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Bicycle Photo Galleries
Here's how to send yours in!

Current Classics Gallery Proven & Classic designs from about 1980 onward Current Classic Previews Last Update - 12/9 752 bikes		Cross Bike Gallery Cyclocross & trail-oriented bicycles Last Update - 12/10 56 bikes
Single Speed Gallery One-speed/derailleurless bicycles on-road or off Single Speed Previews Last Update - 11/27 278 bikes		Working Bikes Gallery Porteurs, delivery bikes and that ilk. Plus "Practical Hardware" - racks & fenders & more. Last Update - 12/11 123 bikes
Your Photos are needed! Add Your Bicycle! It's easy! Workshops of the iBobs Last update - 12/30/08 23 Workshops
Cyclofiend.com Current Classics 2009 Calendar 2010 - Coming Soon!
"I've Got Downtube Shifters... ...And I Know How To Use Them!" New design S/S T-Shirts are now available! Cyclocross "More Cowbell" New design L/S T-Shirt now here! Singlespeed and Fixed Gear Compatible Design - "One Cog - Zero Excuses" The Original Cyclofiend.com L/S T-Shirt still available! More photos and how to order here
Cycling Photos From Selected Races
2004 SFGP Photos		2003 SFGP Photos
2002 San Francisco Grand Prix		2001 San Francisco Grand Prix
2002 Cyclocross Nationals Napa, CA		2002 Redline Cup Finals Napa, CA
1999 Cyclocross Nationals, San Francisco, CA		1998 SuperCup, San Jose

Other Oddities

Nothing goes together like cycling and cigarettes...

...the joy of finding that key marketing crossover phrase...

We got talking about Ibis Scorchers
on the iBob list

Which more or less gave birth to
the IBIS Catalogs & Ephemera section

What the heck is a 650B,
and why are people making odd, rhyming bumperstickers
about it?

Subscribe to RBW Owners Bunch

Email:

Visit this group

Your Donation Helps
To Support This Site

Bicycle Photo Galleries - Established May, 2005

Current Classics Gallery - Cyclocross Bicycle Gallery
Single Speed Bicycle Gallery - Working Bikes & Practical Hardware

Guidelines for submision

Coffee-Fueled Race Reports - Fitfully Produced since 2002, But Now That Everyone Has ESPN, um "VS"...probably not to be repeated

Grand Tour Daily Reports

Tour Reports Not in the List Archive:

2002 Giro D'Italia - 2002 Tour de France

Race Photo Pages - Since the 90's, hence the smaller-sized scans
(from a time when most people had dial-up...)

Cyclocross Nationals - 2002 - San Francisco Grand Prix Road Race - 2002 - San Francisco Grand Prix - 2001
Cyclocross Nationals - 1999 - Men's Elite - Women's Elite - Other Photos
Some Photos from 1998 SuperCross -

References & Other Sections:

Ibis Catalogs & Ephemera - Rivendell Bicycle Works Section - Workshops of the iBob's

Contact Info - Bicycle Links Page

Please note: All Images ©Jim Edgar
No reuse of any kind allowed without specific permission.
For permission please email: pix @cyclofiend.com Thanks.

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