Remember the good ol’ days of Australian cricket – before we lost to New Zealand – when Australia could rely on Shane Warne to take wickets as well as headache tablets? What made those days memorable was the banners he inspired at games, which inevitably punned on his name or others in the team, ie: More >
A recent post in the Priceonomics blog has caused a stir for what it reveals about where hipsters are hanging in the USA. Taking fixie bike ownership as a being a “strong indicator of hipsterness”, Rohin Dhar scrolled through 1.3 million bike ownership listings to calculate which counties and cities in the USA had the More >
This week, we asked Melbourne writer/rider Doug Hendrie about the ups and downs of riding in flat Melbourne. I’ve been zipping about Melbourne on a cheap hybrid for eight years now, and I’ve virtually given up on public transport or short car trips as a result. Melbourne is a flat city – perfect for riding, More >
Unless we’re mistaken, Christmas is essentially a time to wrap up heartfelt boxes and write yourself off… As an online bicycle retailer, we’ve effectively been wrapping up Chappelli-hearted packages all year; so we’ll settle instead with just writing down some highlights of 2011. Chief among these was the expansion of our classic range of fixies More >
It was a case of one man’s trash being another man’s (Pablo’s) treasure. A couple of weeks back, a guy blew a car tyre outside of Pablo’s summer shack. He didn’t have a jack, but Pablo did, and obligingly changed it. Looking in the guy’s tray, Pablo spied an aviary and an old women’s bicycle More >
If Vyvyan Rose didn’t raise a few eyebrows among the pro-amateur road-racing set when he chose to take part in Sunday’s MS Sydney to Wollongong event on a Chappelli three-speed, he certainly did when he started overtaking them. The event now over, Vyvyan, who was blissfully unaware of the 90km up-and-down route until two days More >
Fir trees, blondes and Volvos – there’s more to Sweden than you might imagine. Moose, for example. Or Chappelli Cycles. Chappelli’s new Swedish office has just received its first shipment of 160 gleaming bikes to arrive at their office in Malmo, in Sweden’s south. The bikes are being dispatched via the website across the very More >
Late last week, Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore spoke to Chappelli Cycles exlcusively over Twitter about cycling in Sydney. If you missed the interview – or had trouble following it on Twitter – here’s a rough transcript: Chappelli Cycles: Ok, first up, NYC just announced a #velib bike share scheme – what is the potential More >
Introducing Drew, our new chief mechanic at Chappelli Cycles. Hailing from Sacramento, California, Drew’s been building and riding bikes for as long as he can remember. “In the States I raced road and mountain bikes, and I’ve brought over my own fixie that I built with me” he says,” he says. The bicycle gene (as More >
Remember those beach holidays feeling jealous of the kid with surfboard mounts on his bicycle? When you prayed for wind, it wasn’t just for the surf but also the malicious hope that his bike would get blown off track into a ti-tree bush. Well it seems designers haven’t grown weary of developing whacky ways to More >
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