Categories / Cars and Bikes

All-new Lambretta LN scooter priced for UK

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Regular readers might remember that we featured the return of the Lambretta at the back end of last year. Well, the details of the Lambretta LN scooter launch are starting to take shape – with details of a new Lambretta LS scooter also emerging.

First up, the LN scooter, which has now landed at selected dealers ahead of the full launch. One of those is WK Bikes wkbikes.com, which will have the LN 125. There's an LN 150 to follow later in the year. Both are 'twist and go' automatic scooters, mixing that with old school looks reminiscent of the original using plastic and metal.

Not as cheap as you think though. Made in Taiwan and imported into the UK, the Lambretta LN 125 sells for around £3,300. Ouch. Look out for a twin-seated LS scooter too – that's pictured over the page and will come in 50cc and 125cc models. Likely to be cheaper, but we suspect not by a huge amount.

Lambretta website

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Categories / Cars and Bikes

Beg Bicycles – vintage-style cycles and accessories

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The world of vintage cycling seems to be a rapidly growing one right now, with Cambridge-based Beg Bicycles being the latest to enter the fray.

The company claims to mix retro charm with the latest modern components – chrome handlebars,  a posture-perfect steel frame, classic Brooks leather saddle, leather handle grips and a retro colour palette (Persephone Pink, Toad Grey and Flirty 30s Green) mix it with high quality bicycle components for the integrated hub gears and roller brakes, with a built-in hub-powered dynamo light system topping things off.

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Categories / Cars and Bikes, Men's Fashion, Sportswear

Fred Perry x Blank Canvas cycling shirt range lands

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Cycling tops have been a fashion as well as functional item for decades now, with the Fred Perry x Blank Canvas cycling shirts certain to keep up that trend.

But these aren't your straightforward cycling tops – these mix that the classic look with the equally classic Fred Perry polos shirt designs, typified by the Winter collar shirt (pictured above) with 'Champion' striping across the middle and small, zipped rear pocket.

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Categories / Bags, Cars and Bikes, Design and Interiors

Carrie Bicycle Basket

 

Product_thumb php If you're finding that the lengthening days and warmer weather mean that you're venturing out and about on your bicycle once more then why not treat yourself to the Carrie Bicycle Basket?

Inspired by traditional crochet tablecloths but made out of far more enduring polypropylene, the Carrie can be used as a shopping or picnic basket and even flipped upside-down to make an impromptu picnic table.

It comes in black, white and green, complete with a set of hooks for attaching to your bicycle and it costs £64.20.

You can buy the basket from Made in Design here

Categories / Books, Cars and Bikes

Cyclepedia: A Tour of Iconic Bicycle Designs book by Michael Embacher

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We love a vintage bicycle, which is why we'll be investing in a copy of Cyclepedia: A Tour of Iconic Bicycle Designs book by Michael Embacher.

It's packed with such things, specifically charting 100 models designed over the past 90 years, models apparently chosen for their 'innovative mechanisms, engineering precision, and commendable design'. Mountain, racing, single-speed, touring, kids', tandem, urban, folding, cargo, and curiosities, they're all here.

Wallpaper has an online gallery of some of those models if you want a glimpse inside. If you like what you see, the book has just been published by Thames & Hudson and available on Amazon now for a discounted £11.73.

Find out more at the Amazon website

Categories / Cars and Bikes, eBay watch

eBay watch: Pashley Princess bicycle

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This retails for around £550 when sold new, so right now, this Pashley Princess bicycle is a potential bargain.

It's a decent example of this vintage-styled gem too, not perfect, but perfectly serviceable. It's a three-speed in Regency Green with a 20-inch frame size, hub brakes, ding dong bell, Brooks Saddle and recent Michelin World Tour Amber Wall Tyres.

On the downside, the frame is scratched in quite a few places and the outer black plastic covers on the various cables are damaged. Aside from that, it's just fine. Right now, it's at £69.

Find out more at the eBay website