Introducing the YOLOTON: a memoir of a Pink Flamingos Adventure Cycling Club camping trip
Summer finally arrived and the Pink Flamingos Adventure Cycling Club, the rag tag gang of pedalheads gravitating around 48×17 cycles, Athens’ coolest LBS, was itching for a new adventure. Someone proposed to combine the annual...
Kym NonStop vlogg
Kym’s video of her trip to Greece. Visiting our shop, getting tipsy on Athens’ nightlife, riding Corinth to Kardamyli with Nico on track bikes, lounging by the pool, racing 1896CMRR and her expert opinion on...
Report: Mani Invitational // Mountains and Beach Podiums // The 1896CMRR IV
On May 19th, 8 years after the first 1896CMRR, the fourth edition of the race took place in the small town of Kardmyli, Mani. The most striking difference from all the other years was obviously...
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Report: ATH CROSS races at New Philly
9 months after the Ghost Lab CX event at Papagou the 48×17 CX team returned to a fresh new spot at Nea Philadelphia park to design a creative course that would offer wider gravel roads, steeper off camper...
Andros: Pink Flamingos Adventure Cycling Club camp out
This year the annual bike camp out of 48×17 was decided wholeheartedly to venture into the unknown and specifically to Andros island. Notoriously famous for its “meltemia” ridiculously strong summer winds that slams the place...
Nico and Chas at the Transcontinental Race
The Transcontinental Race for those unaware of is a super hard race crossing Europe. It is totally self-supported – that means that riders have to carry their necessary gear and sleep, eat and take break...
Riding roadbikes in Kythira island
Kythira is probably the place you wanted to travel with your bike and you didnt know. The island itself is a continuation of the Peloponesse countryside in a sense but a world away culturaly. It is...
Ride on green and blue: in Zakynthos with the Cinelli Hobootleg
Hello, my name is Gutter Case, I am a banjo player from Zakynthos island. Well, the guys from 48×17 cycles asked me to pen together some words about riding in my homeland, Zakynthos island. So here...
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Report: The Ghost Lab Cross race at Papagou
Truth be told, the Ghost Lab Cross was our first take on an official sanctioned race. Coming from a full 10 years of organising street racing events it is a great feeling coming full circle...