Hipsters, fixies and plastic models

There won't be any real bicycles today either. Or... OK, we could tell you that we just watched Shelley Olds win La Madrid Challenge by La Vuelta, followed by Giorgia Bronzini in 2nd place and Kirsten Wild in 3rd. And we think that it's great that La Vuelta follows Le Tour, and organises a race for female bicyclists, in connection with the final stage of La Vuelta. Female bicyclist deserve big races! They work just as hard as the male bicyclists but are paid less.

And we could also tell you that lately we have become a little obsessed by mountains. Or obsessed by "mountains" - we don't have any Alps or Pyrenees up here in the North. We do have the Scandinavian Mountains, but even they are quite a bit from where we live. So we have to settle with what we can find, slopes about one or two kilometres long, with an average grade of 7,5 % (i e for every 100 metres ridden you're 7,5 metres higher up). And as we mentioned a week ago, on the hardest stage of La Vuelta the last climb was just under seven kilometres long and averaged 11,2 % grades, with slopes up to 21,67 %. Compared to that we've got nothing. But hey, we just have to make do with what we've got, and as we're not pro bicyclists we're actually OK with what we've got too.

But what we wanted to tell you today is more of a continuation of the last blog post. Check out these photos:

(We borrowed these photos from Italiaanse Racefietsen. Hope that's OK!)

Pretty cool, aren't they? Plastic (or possibly metal) model bicycles, fixies and hipster male dolls! Complete with Cinelli T-shirts, even... (But where are the fixie-riding female dolls?)

Ride safe!