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Hommage au Vélo is born from a cycling obsession ignited in the early
1990’s in Kent, “The Garden of England”, and undimmed in the
subsequent 25 years. An obsession that was nurtured in the last decade of
the “old days”, where secretive cycling clubs and steel frames crafted in the
hands of a local frame builder were the raison d’être of the local rider.
When Miguel Indurain was the extra-terrestrial and not Lance Armstrong.
When cycling was a closed shop run by “old boys”, keen to pull rank on
newcomers, blind to developments in fashion and popular culture and yet
admirably ordered and protective of their own. In the subsequent 25 years,
we have witnessed a full-scale revolution in the sport: the boom and bust of
mountain bike racing, the rise and fall of Lance Armstrong, the
obsolescence and revival of fluorescent colours, the emergence of
Anglophone riders as a dominant force in world cycling, the return of hand
built steel frames and the brilliant increase in women cycling.

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