LRB News !

Seasons Greetings from LRB News !   Issue #2  is coming to you just a few sleeps from that long-awaited morning - when with high anticipation, you can rip open those oddly shaped and vaguely oily-smelling parcels under the tree to gasp in surprise and amazement that Santa knew just exactly the obscure 70's bike widget needed to complete the ideal LRB weapon. Or will it be a complete Christmas Bike ?  Oh, the anticipation. Now,  LRB News !   has not been resting on it's laurels these past weeks since Issue #1 hit the streets.  Just like you, we have been out there picking through the scrap iron, perusing internet images of wet and diabolical editions of Paris-Roubaix, watching A Sunday in Hell  ( again ), trawling ebay, and ratting through the bottom of the retired kit drawer. Progress to date ? After a dissapointingly brief and limited survey of the local tip shop line-up, a suitable candidate was selected from a somehow familar rogues gallery of heav...

Welcome... To the very first issue of LRB News ! As we head into the Christmas period, and weeks spent working/lazing in the quiet sanctuary of the garage contemplating life with refreshment in hand, I'd like to welcome you to this page. In coming weeks all of the latest gossip, innuendo, geeky tech stuff, and inspiration for Launceston RooBaix will come barrelling into your inbox, leading up to the inaugural event in 2022.  With only a few months of tinkering time left, LRB News ! is here to ignite a slow burn of inspiration and anticipation for the big day. And... f irst out of the blocks, and only a day or two after receiving his invitation, Steven sent in the image below.  Naturally this was read as acceptance and entre into the exclusive and limited all-star starting line-up. Normally seen spinning through the back blocks of leafy Box Hill on a Merckx, Cinelli or ( even better ) Guerciotti, Steven has immediately grasped the concept.  Although any of the options in ...