Road Cycling News

Eurobike 2011: small wheel craze?

There were just enough of these strange beasties dotted around Eurobike to suggest something is afoot. What are they? Small-wheeled drop-bar road bikes with not a folding frame in sight. Ideas, anybody?

For some reason, famed Turin-based frame-builder Gios decided to call this machine the Antico
Usual fabulous Gios blue
A bit of everything on this baby from Bruno of Switzerland: tasteful colours, leather saddle and bar tape, cantilever brakes - and best of all, friction shifters on the quill handlebar stem
Bruno also caters for the modernist with this sharply-styled stealth model
Cannondale's Hooligan sports hub gearing, disc brakes and single-sided fork. Flat bars too
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