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			thirdraildesignlab posted a photo:	SOMA Sparrows with elkhide done, untrimmed. The MINI Clubman S in the background is the same color as the bike. These photos document my Carpetbagger project, a fixed-gear build fitted with S&S Couplers to be used as a travel bike. The general details of the build sheet are:1. SOMA Rush frame, 56cm: stripped, coupled, then powdercoated in a color to match my sweet, sweet MINI.2. S&S Couplers: break-away coupler set to allow the bike to be packed in an airline compliant case and avoid bike shipping fees; assembled by Tom at 41303. SOMA Sparrow bars4. Odyssey finger lever5. Shimano medium reach brake with Kool-Stops6. Handmade wheels by 718c.com with Velocity Fusions and All-City hubs in bright polished silver.7. Panaracer Pasela 700x23 tyres8. Elkhide by Velo Orange, hand stitched9. Custom bar end caps made from vintage typewriter keys.10. Velo-Orange Stem and Seatpost11. Brooks Swallow, Honey12. Sugino 75 drivetrain: 72 inchgearLove it. Team Lope Tyre Clubbe

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1239915282 NOS adidas eddy merckx cycling shoes

i’m not really much for the colorscheme, but those are fucking DOPE. it’s an expired ebay auction, so i have no link for you, but suffice it to say that they are especially desirable because eddy merckx was the first person who adidas ever made cycling shoes for, back in 71, which of course began a long history of exceptional adidas cycling shoes to this day.

and for those of you who don’t know who merckx is, he’s been called "the most accomplished rider that cycling has ever known," by french publication velo, and "the most successful cyclist of all time," by american publication veloNews. according to HIS WIKI PAGE, he won the tour de france five times, won all the classics except paris-tours, won the giro d’italia and the vuelta a españa, won the world championship as an amateur and a professional, and broke the world hour record. he was both a track and road rider, and is generally acknowledged as the greatest cyclist ever to live.

it only makes sense then, that adidas would honor him over the years!

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