Cute as a sack of kittens: new brakes!

From Bike Radar:

For 2014, TRP will add a new RG957 long-reach, dual-pivot road rim brake caliper for the growing gravel road market. Claimed weight is 167g per wheel with forged and machined aluminum arms, an integrated barrel adjuster and quick-release cam, angle-adjustable cartridge-type pad holders, and stainless steel hardware. Reach is listed at 47-57mm and suggested retail price is US$180 for a complete front and rear set.

Wherein Andy gets Paved

Linkypoo to story...

Andy in Sports Illusrated

Nice piece here from Austin Murphy - it focuses on the 1988 Giro but adds a good overview of Andy's career including some stories I've never seen published. The bit on his year at Banesto is slightly eye-opening but not too surprising. Yes, there are one or two inaccuracies...

News of the Week

My job just got sooo much easier...

Taliah Lempert - Andy's Bike

Hmm, might look good on a teeshirt someday, no?

More here

Tour Magazin, Germany - from the Nahbs Interview

Andy and Steve Hampsten - Hampsten Cycles 

No flames, no sloping top tube, no disc brakes: "We build it for you to fit, but 

we follow our pattern", says Steve Hampsten, who is the core of Hampsten 

Cycles together with Giro-winning brother Andy Hampsten. Extremely elegant 

road bikes of steel or titanium are made under the boar logoed label. The 

Hampsten brothers have been sharing the passion for bicycle racing since 

kid's age. While Andy pursued a successful professional racing career, Steve 

became a cook and has been building frames for Waterford (match/Paramount really, ed.) later. 

In 1999, the first Hampsten bikes saw the light of the world, the popular name of the only 

American Giro winner made for the attention needed, the business is run by 

Steve Hampsten. Besides the "skinny tired road bikes" of varying tastes, the 

brothers are especially known for one model: Strada Bianca. The road bike for 

tires up to 35 mm wide has been developed in 2000 for Andy's tours on the 

dusty roads of Tuscany, with thinner tires and fenders it brings you dry through 

Hampsten Cycles rainy hometown of Seattle or along dirt roads. "Over the 

years we really perfected this bike, it's comfortable, versatile - and not 

unresembling to a 70s race bike", says Steve Hampsten, who feels verified by 

younger models like Treks Domane. The company understands custom 

framebuilding as modification of their models to fit the customer's body. This 

way, the riding characteristics and the timeless look are preserved. 

Gerolf Meyer

Oscar

Oscar has arrived...

A recent MAX build...

Here's a quick look at a recent build using the Seven Cycles fork for 57mm-reach calipers along with Mopha bag, red King-ness, new script logo, painted-to-match pump, Fiat Verde Chiaro paint, and probably some other details I'm missing. We like it!

Yard Sale, Strada Bianca

Shown is the latest iteration of our popular Strada Bianca model in a 55 x 55.8cm: ST and TT are 28.6mm, DT is 31.8mm, HT is 33mm for a 1" steerer, 14mm SS. The fork is by Wound Up and looks great with the smaller diameter steel tubing we use on these bikes.

Paint is Fiat's Verde Chiaro with our new red script decals - I was trying for a retro Bianchi tribute look and I think it worked well. The overall scheme was initially chosen by a customer, however - Brad - but I'm smart enough to know when to appropriate.

This bike was a big hit at the recent Nahbs show in Denver where the picture was taken and is shown ready to ride the way we like: skinny tires and fenders as a winter trainer or remove the fenders and throw on some 30mm Challenge Eroica tires for gravel-road fun.

I'd like to sell this as frame, fork, headset, and fenders for $2400 - and it's brand new, mind you - or we can do a whole bike with your choice of parts. The SRAM Red kit shown is slightly used and could be available if someone was interested.

Team Pro, Erie CO edition