We’re closed for our holidays from June 8th to June 16th. Any orders placed during this period will be dispatched on June 17th.
If you’ve got a hankering for something we’ll be shipping out orders until our postman arrives at around 3 o’clock on June 7th, so you’ve still got time to get your requests in.
We love musettes. They are great for carrying small items such as books, race capes and bike locks and are small enough to stuff in your back pocket when they are empty.
Traditionally handed out at feed stations during races and packed full of goodies such as bananas, rice cakes and sandwiches they are then discarded by race cyclists when they are empty.
We’re stocking three different designs of musettes at the moment – a Brooklyn blue one, a black Molteni one that we’ve had made especially (the team issue one was white but we thought the black ones looked cooler) and a Omega Pharma Quickstep one as used by Mark Cavendish and Tom Boonen.
King Cages have a nearly legendary reputation in the USA.
As tough as (old cowboy) boots these cages are hand made in Colarado. We are very pleased to be stocking the titanium, iris and stainless models from their product range.
Not only do they look good, but the titanium one only weights 28g so it keeps the weight down on your bike too.
Now it’s that time of year for the Spring classics everyone goes all Belgian with their fanaticism for one day races.
We’ve got a couple of cracking Quickstep replica jerseys in stock if you want to join in the fun and develop a beer and frites habit.
The Belgian champs jersey is a replica of the one worn by Mr Paris-Roubaix himself Tom Boonen.
The Quickstep team jersey is rather special as it has the world champion stripes on – as worn by the Manx missile – Mark Cavendish.
As well as riding our bikes we do enjoy a good brew (and piece of cake). We’ve designed and had made a couple of cycling themed mugs that celebrate a couple of our all time hero’s Eddy Meckx and Fausto Coppi.
The Merckx mug has Motleni Arcore on it – probably his most famous team and the Fausto Coppi mug has Il Campionissimo written on it and is in celeste blue.
They make an ideal gift or a good way to make your mug stand out from the crowd.
Both mugs have a 10 oz capacity and are ceramic. 1 single mug only supplied. Tea, coffee and digestive biscuits not included.
Buy yours here: https://velotastic.co.uk/product/books/retro-cycling-mug/
The Maglia Rosa has been GC leader of the Giro d’Italia since 1931.
Like the Tour’s yellow jersey the colour comes from the newspaper that used to sponsor the jersey La Gazzetta dello Sport. There have been many manufacturers of the pink jersey including Asics, Fila, Castelli and the current manufacturer Santini.
Each year the jersey subtly changes. The version above was from the 84th edition of the race that was held in 2001.
Here’s what Wikipedia says about that race:
“The 2001 Giro d’Italia was the 84th edition of the Giro d’Italia, one of cycling’s Grand Tours. The Giro began with a 7 km (4 mi) prologue that went from to Pescara. The race came to a close on June 10 with a mass-start stage that ended in the Italian city of Milan.Twenty teams entered the race that was won by the ItalianGilberto Simoni of the Lampre-Daikin team.Second and third were the Spanish riders Abraham Olano and Italian Unai Osa”
We are big fans of the Giro d’Italia. It seems to be a peoples race and has that certain Italian flair.
To celebrate the Giro and because we think they look quite cool, we got our freinds at Walz to make up a batch of their best selling moisture wicking caps in black with a pink racing stripe.
Get yours here and stand out from the crowd.
On January 20th we’re off to the velodrome at Manchester to the worlds largest indoor bicycle jumble sale.
As well as taking some of the stock that’s on our website , we’ve also got lots of other stuff that we’ve not got listed.
Everything will be at a very special price so come on down and grab a bargain.
You never know, but if you are lucky you may see one a famous rider or two whizzing round the track whilst you shop !
Seasons Greetings from Velotastic. We hope you’ve had a good year and got plenty of miles under your belt.
As well as being Christmas time it’s that time of the year (in the UK) that we get invaded by potholes. I joked on a forum when it was revealed that Yorkshire had won the 2014 Grand Depart that we should not resurface the roads as the shocking state that they are is part of our heritage !
I’ve recently started using a site run by the CTC to report any potholes I notice. They then report them to the relevant authorities.
Heres a link to their website.
It’s that time of year again – we’re having a winter sale !
Just spend £50 or more and enter the coupon code hiver12 at checkout and we’ll give you 10% off your order.
Don’t hang about as this offer ends on January 6th.
Have a great Christmas and New Year and keep cycling.
Terms and Conditions (the boring bit)
No discounts will be given retrospectively if you don’t put the code in. £50 minimum spend excludes the cost of shipping (which is free for UK orders over £20. A flat rate delivery charge of £5 applies to all international orders ). Offer ends January 6th 2013.
We’ve just been and hand picked another 100 jerseys.
They’ll be up for sale once we’ve re-inspected, washed, photgraphed and measured them.
Watch this space !
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