L'Eroica Britannia 2015
Today we'll be securing our place at this year's L'Eroica Britannia. We're very excited to finally make it, as last year we had to pull out due to shop commitments, but this year we'll be there in full force...
Vintage Bike Dating Pt1: Shimano Date Codes
Dating a classic bike can be very tricky. Your first port of call should always be the frame serial number, but that's not always an option as many frames don't have frame numbers stamped on them, and if they do they are often impossible to decipher...
Vintage Raleigh Bicycles
A highly entertaining & informative video here from the Raleigh Nottingham Factory on Triumph Road. This was produced in 1945. Such a wonderful glimpse into how different it was back then. Sit back, put your feet up & enjoy :)
Two Very Good People
One of the best things about having a shop is the people we get to meet along the way.
Almost four years ago we met the lovely Peanut Vendors (Becky Nolan, and Barnaby Read), and began renting the space in the back of their wonderful furniture shop to take Pedal Pedlar from an online only presence to an actual shop.
Not long after moving in, an older gentleman wandered into the workshop and started rummaging through a pile of old Cinelli handlebars. "How much for these" he asked. "What about these" etc etc. He left empty handed and seemed like another local just having a nosey around. A few weeks later he came in again with a similar result. Fast forward four years and that same older gentleman is still visiting the shop, still leaving empty handed, but we now know what an extraordinary gentleman he is....
Perfect Imperfections: Van Gogh of Cycling
Finishing a bicycle frame is no doubt an art, and we have great admiration for flawless paint, highly polished chrome and perfectly applied transfers. Sometimes though, it's inspiring to see a much more expressive approach to the finish. Such as that of the infamous Dutch marque, Remy Ossendrecht...
2 Italian Road Bikes - Bottecchia V Bottecchia
Which do you prefer?
Our last trip to visit our European friends in search for vintage steel bikes proved rather successful. Amongst many other stunning retro road bikes from Belgium, The Netherlands & France, we also managed to find this beautiful pair of Italian Bottecchias.
OUR NEW LONDON BIKE SHOP - GUESS THE LOCATION
After 3 years of struggling in our tiny, tiny bike shop slash bicycle workshop in the back of The Peanut Vendor, we finally got the keys to our new shop. We've been trying to keep quiet to avoid jinxing anything, but it's official, we now have the keys...
Vintage Steel Bike Frames For Sale
We just added a few luuurvley steel road bike frames to the site, including some real gems. 6 new vintage bicycle frames added, including a rather rare 1972 Gazelle Champion Mondial, a 1950s classic British Viking and a stupendously rare 1950s Marceau vintage French number. Most of the new batch are built from either Reynolds 531 or Columbus tubing, and although these are all technically road bike frames, they can also be used as singlespeed or fixie frames as they all feature horizontal dropouts.
Alan 'Pongo' Braithwaite - TT Master
This astonishing machine is now available to buy as frame & fork only.
We'd rather not talk about it, but I suppose we have to........
Save The Duell
Every so often we face a moral dilemma in the shop. If a bike hangs around for too long, we have to make extra effort to sell them. Bikes that have been around for longer than a few months usually get reduced, then reduced a little more. The next step is the painful one...
Stuck Bottom Bracket?
New Old Stock Week
