By Mike Barry Photography by Walter Lai In around 1958 prominent Toronto racer, Trevor Allen ordered three handmade bicycles from Rotrax Cycles in Southampton, England. He purchased two identical bikes…
Vintage Bicycle Feature: Le Rochet
By Mike Barry Sr. Photography by Walter Lai Cycles Rochet was an old French company established in the early 1890s in Albert, northern France. Their extensive factory was demolished in…
PAGLIANTI RESTORATION
A mid-1940’s Italian city bike. This is a recent restoration that was completed in the Mariposa workshop. The bike was originally purchased at a garage sale in Toronto in 1991.…
CRITERIUM RACING
By Dede Barry Photography by Casey Gibson Passing the barriers neatly placed on each corner, I walked with my Father and dog on a humid summer evening to the Lixx…
OFF THE BEATEN PATH
Rough stuff in the French Alps, 1984 By Mike Barry Sr. Photos by Ian Austen and Walter Lai Since I was a young boy living in London, England, cycling has…
BICYCLE FEATURE: ROAD BIKE WITH CAMPAGNOLO ATHENA
Photography by Walter Lai This is Mike Barry Sr.’s road bike. When he was a boy growing up in London, England, he had his eye on a blue and brown…
GRASS TRACK
By Michael Barry Photography by Walter Lai and Chris Monette Traffic in large cities has made teaching children to ride bicycles difficult. Allowing them to venture around the block on…
MIXTE
By Dede Barry Video by Dave Delnea, Westside Studio Toronto Photography by Walter Lai When I was a girl, growing up in Milwaukee in the 70’s, a step through bike…
CAMPAGNOLO PARIS-ROUBAIX
By Mike Barry Photography by Walter Lai Paris-Roubaix, then and now. This year Matt Hayman won Paris-Roubaix covering the 257 km in 5h 51m at an average speed of 43.9…
Raid Pyrenean
By Mike Barry Photos by Bob Zeller In the seventies I read an article by renowned British journalist and my good friend, Jock Wadley where he mentioned a ride across…
INSIDE PARIS-ROUBAIX
By Michael Barry Photography by Kristof Ramon and Scott Mitchell Paris Roubaix is a race of unknowns. What the riders can’t control, what looms in their futures, haunts them until…
BICYCLE FIT FOR WOMEN
By Dede Barry Photography by Walter Lai and Dede Barry Over the past 30 years of riding and having raced professionally for 16, I have ridden hundreds of different bicycles.…