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Biketopia. My perfect world.

Rides with birds. Every once in a while when I’m riding I find myself locked eye to eye with a finch or a red winged black bird. I think they’re trying to figure out how it is I’m going so much faster...

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L’Eroica. The Heroic

Born out of a love for cycling in 1997 the two hundred kilometer route through the most beautiful Italian country side lures cyclists by the thousands. Held the first Sunday in October, the famed...

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Climbing Ventoux

This is a great video from GCN (Global Cycling Network) about climbing Ventoux. If I ever get the chance I’d jump at doing this. Not sure I could being a flat lander, but I’d try. At the very least, I...

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Mad, mad skills. Danny Macaskill: The Ridge

  Make sure you visit our Cycling Art Print shop featuring Merckx-The Cannibal.   The post Mad, mad skills. Danny Macaskill: The Ridge appeared first on VALENTI.

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Monkey business.

I work hard, can you tell? Okay sometimes I just draw things because I want to. It’s what I get to do as an artist – not so much as a designer working on projects for my clients. Which I love doing by...

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I want a GoPro and a Drone

I want – no I need, a GoPro and a Drone. I could have it follow me everywhere, how cool would that be. Well probably not as cool as this video from the Trek Cyclocross shot a few weeks ago. I love the...

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No place like home.

I love to travel. I love new places, new people, new food and new experiences. So while there’s no place like home, a trip to New York is a pretty good second. I took this picture from the airport...

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Mud, guts and glory.

2013 UCI Cyclocross World Championships from The Bike Dr. on Vimeo. With the roadies hanging up their bikes for this year it’s time to get on with Cyclocross season. And to kick it off here’s an older...

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Top 10 Moments of 2014 Road Season

This is a video created by Global Cycling Network of the Top 10 Moments in the 2014 Road Cycling Season.   SAVE 20% on all Cycling Art Prints and Boxed Sets just use the Promo Code VELO20 when you...

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Climb the Col du Galibier

I’m such a sucker for great music and pretty pictures, I think I could do a ride like this because I’m a bike romantic at heart. Someday, if I’m lucky, I’ll get to test my legs on these great roads....

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Vive le fun!

It’s no secret that I’m a big fan of old cycling posters. Most of the art just blows me away because it’s so good. For example take this poster my friend Rich just brought back from France. Rich is the...

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Thankful for Duct Tape

This writing may not be what you think, while yes I am thankful for duct tape and it’s many uses as I’m sure you are. This writing is about how duct tape taught me a very important lesson in humility....

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Black Friday Sale 25% Off!

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How to make enemies.

If you say you like Lance, people tell you how horrible he was. If you say you don’t like Lance, people tell you how much good he did. So I’ll say nothing and draw a picture of what he said. He said he...

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“Disc Wars” The battle for peloton supremacy.

The question I have is “What’s all the noise over road bike Disc Brakes?” Since I’ve been riding my bike for over thirty years I have to say that being able to stop faster has never been an issue. The...

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I swallowed a bug…

Tell me this has never happened to you and I’ll tell you that you’ve never ridden your bike in the spring in the morning. Breathe in. Gulp!! This is the time when all the gnats, no-see-ums, midges and...

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Happy Earthday!

Celebrate the Earth and go ride your bike. Feel free to send this card around to your friends and have them share the wonders and enjoy the day. The post Happy Earthday! appeared first on VALENTI.

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How I make my art.

There is no big mystery to how I create my art. I love what I draw and most of it just seems to fall out of my hand. Well, certainly out of my head. There is some process I go through however to get my...

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Start and Finish

In a recent post I showed a range of pictures of my drawings that eventually get me to my final cycling art print. Well to keep the theme going here is one of the drawings again and the final cycling...

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Celebrate your Independence.

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