Vélo-Rétro T-Shirt Offer for ICJ Readers

For ICJ readers: My friends over at Velo-Retro are offering free shipping (to USA) on any Italian themed T-shirt order during the remaining days of the Tour de France; offer ends Sunday July 25th. The high quality T-shirts are available in 6 sizes and 17 colors.

Go here, and then along the left side you will see the T-shirt designs organized by several categories.

Contact them to let them know you're taking advantage of the offer and your shipping amount will be refunded after you order.

Photos: a few examples of the designs available

Stories for the Italian Cycling Journal about rides, granfondos, having a good time cycling in Italy, Italian cycling history, etc. are very welcome. Contact me at veronaman@gmail.com. There are more than 1,400 stories in this blog. The search feature to the right works best for finding subjects in the blog and there is also a translate button at the bottom so you can translate each page.

Italian Cycling Journal Contest Winner

From September 18th to October 31st we ran a contest for anyone submitting a ride story about Italy and which was published. The winner to be selected in a random drawing. The prize was a VELO-RETRO T-shirt of the winner's design/color/size.

The winner of random drawing was Martin Appel from München, Germany, who submitted a story about his L'Eroica ride. Martin selected the design of a conté crayon drawing by René "Pellos" Pellarin of a 1930s Tour de France rider on a black T-shirt:



VELO-RETRO offers unique T-shirt and musette designs, and reprints of catalogs. A website definitely worth a visit.

The owner of VELO-RETRO, Chuck Schmidt, also organizes a vintage bike ride which starts at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, the first Sunday of every month. More details at VELO-RETRO.

Stories for the Italian Cycling Journal welcome; contact me at veronaman@gmail.com. There are more than 1,000 stories in this blog; the search feature to the right works best for finding subjects in the blog.

VELO-RETRO for Vintage Catalogs, T-Shirts and Musettes

The VELO-RETRO website is a must visit to shop for copies of vintage bike catalogs, and custom designed T-shirts and musettes with vintage designs. Not only is Italy represented but you can find something from Singer to Claud Butler.

Examples of catalogs:

Examples of T-shirts:

And, Musettes:

Photos: from Velo-Retro, http://www.velo-retro.com/

Stories, including cycling trip stories, for the Italian Cycling Journal welcome; contact veronaman@gmail.com