Guilt Free Thursday: Strike Bikes

An important figure in the cycling media recently mocked us for saying that this site was anti-capitalist. But it's true -- we once looked at the pictures on the Wikipedia page for Noam Chomsky. To prove our alliances are entirely moral, here's Strike Bikes! They're a group of striking workers who occupied their factory and have resumed production of bicycles to make their own microcosmic socialist paradise. You can buy them online, or you can be A FUCKING SCAB and buy a Trek or whatever. Related news article / The Strike Bike itself.


It all sounds a lot like the plot of a Ken Loach film. Maybe even a Sergei Eisenstein film, but then you'd have to understand that footage of a horse followed by footage of a rolling wheel is supposed to imply a bicycle.


Some old updates that aren't entirely awful


And there'll be even more coming to this spot just as soon as we can be bothered trawling through our somewhat embarrassing archives.

Simon and Anthony


Nigel and company


Johnathan & friends, even though they're always last with the news and the website is horrible


Dutch cyclists we like because they're better/more attractive than British riders

Bobke Strut is so good that it deserves a category of its own

Arrr, bike pirates

George!

Things we hate so much we're not even going to link to them

  • Trust But Verify
  • Trek
  • Assos

Our e-mail inbox isn't just for Japanese gambling promotions and the latest advances in penis enlargement chemistry, you know

What's the word "derailed" got to do with bikes anyway?

  • Err... bikes have things called derailleurs? Apart from track bikes, which don't.

If derailleurs evolved from fixies, how come there are still fixies?

  • Survival of the fixest.


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