8 Editor’s Statement
Brad Quartuccio

10 Publisher’s Statement
Jeff Guerrero

12 I Love Riding in the City
Readers share their tales of city cycling.

22 L’Eroica 2011 – True Grit
Colin O’Brien
Rolling Tuscan hills. Thousands of like-minded people. Gorgeous vintage steel. And wine; plenty of wine.

34 One Tandem, Eighty Countries
Krista Carlson
Jamie Bianchini traveled the world with a custom-made tandem bicycle, inviting strangers to ride along everywhere he went.

42 Photo Gallery: Puerto Rico
Takuya Sakamoto

48 A Bicycle Framebuilding Crash Course
Brad Quartuccio
Our editor spends a week in New England with Mike Flanigan, learning how to TIG weld, notch, braze and paint.

53 Residue
Roger Lootine

56 Product Reviews & News
Raleigh, White Industries, Feedback Sports, Chrome and more.

64 Stay Loose
Brad Quartuccio
When the going gets tough, the best thing to do is to relax.

66 Outro
Jeff Guerrero

Left: Mike Flanigan demonstrates how to TIG weld a chainstay bridge during a weeklong framebuilding course. Read more on page 48. Photo by Brad Quartuccio