We welcome back Ben and Steve from Attaquer to discuss their exciting new collab with Kappa. We talk about radball, the state of the cycling industry, and Italian men that like to water their sidewalks while wearing tracksuits. Plus, the hosts give a completely unbiased review of Warren's new bike. 

1:34 - Tony buys bike parts from Amazon
2:56 - The State of the Vibe this summer
10:00 - The return of Ben and Steve from Attaquer
12:49 - Their experience with the Post-Covid cycling dip
21:00 - Introducing the Attaquer x Kappa Collaboration (And how much influence did Tony have on it?)
22:10 - How the collab came about
24:45 - No tracksuits in the collection?
27:13 - Exploring the direction for this collab since 2017
28:36 - Radball, is it real?
30:34 - Why haven’t we seen more cycling and football/soccer brands collab?
34:56 - Designing for cyclists and soccer fans
37:04 - Could cycling brands take design inspo from soccer jerseys?
44:14 - What does it take to get outsider brands interested in cycling?
46:58 - How challenging was it to meld the distinct brands of Kappa and Attaquer?
51:00 - Rapid Fire
57:54 - Canals with Ben and Steve
1:01:57 - Into The Canal
1:17:02 - We Rate Your Bike For Free™: Warren’s Standert

Listen to our first interview with Attaquer.

Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/cyclingfashionweek
Get in touch: [email protected]

Hit subscribe, leave a comment and a review wherever you listen to podcasts, it helps us share the best in cycling fashion with the world.

We sit down with Zach Lambert of BlackHeart Bike Co. and Mikey Ojeda from Bleach Design Werks to talk about their new collab with MAAP that recently blew up cycling Instagram. Plus, we finally rate a bike again.

0:25 - Italian Alex and Skyler are not fired
2:20 - The new Team Canada kit being worn at Worlds
7:50 - The Nigerian track kit
9:53 - Introducing Mikey Ojeda of Bleach Design Werks and Zach Lambert of BlackHeart Bike Co.
15:10 - Mikey’s history with skateboarding and motorcycles, and how it influences his design
17:38 - How the collaboration between Bleach, BlackHeart and MAAP happened
22:31 - Breaking the fear of getting into cycling 
25:14 - How the collab shows the real way some people ride
27:36 - Could bike brands start having “pro models” for non-World Tour type rides? How can bikes better express the rider?
33:06 - Is there overlap between motorcycle club culture and cycling club culture?
36:16 - Creating pieces like the tech tee that are less intimidating to wear 
39:52 - Is all the pink in the collab a marketing campaign for the Barbie movie? 
41:49 - Making the collab through community connections
46:02 - What’s next for both BlackHeart and Bleach?
50:40 - Into The Canal
1:02:04 - We Rate Your Bike For Free™

Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/cyclingfashionweek
Get in touch: [email protected]

Hit subscribe, leave a comment and a review wherever you listen to podcasts, it helps us share the best in cycling fashion with the world.

We're back with an in-depth, enlightening conversation with Standert Bicycles. Max, Maxe, and Bene share their production process, design inspiration, racing heritage, and why they don't have an evil plan to takeover the world with cycling influencer marketing.

2:11 - Throwing Italian Alex and Skyler into the canal
4:42 - Shoutout to Red White Apparel
6:02 - Tony’s Dad Watts
7:53 - How we got to interviewing Standert
9:32 - How Standert got started: a cafe, a bike, and beyond
22:11 - Contrasting the welcoming fixie/skater ethos with the encroachment of elitist influencer culture
25:06 - The organic nature of the welcoming vibes of the Standert group ride
27:30 - Building the bikes they want to ride and marketing their own lifestyle
28:23 - Max shares the design inspiration for an early frame design
30:26 - Why metal bikes?
33:54 - Using the same material that’s in Fillipo Ganna’s hour record bike
34:50 - The brand’s racing pedigree 
42:28 - How their “pretty fun” frame geometry can differ from custom geometry
44:42 - Their production process, building in Italy and Taiwan
51:17 - The misconception that metal bikes have to be bespoke or inexpensive and mass-produced 
54:54 - Working with Dedacciai custom Scandium tubing
58:05 - Convincing people that aluminum and metal can still perform 
59:58 - What’s next for Standert?
1:01:38 - Rapid Fire
1:08:02 - Into The Canal

Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/cyclingfashionweek
Get in touch: [email protected]

Hit subscribe, leave a comment and a review wherever you listen to podcasts, it helps us share the best in cycling fashion with the world.

This week, we sit down with Christian, Marvin, and Daniel from Austrian brand Brilli Brilliant Unicorn (BBUC) for a colorful conversation about cycling, art, design, disco and dancing. (It will make sense when you listen.) Plus, we talk far too long about Standert's marketing department. 

0:46 - Shoutout to Skyler’s Factor team bike from The Cyclery
3:00 - That whole Rubber N’ Road thing
5:24 - News
5:43 - Rapha Pro Team Gore-Tex Infinum Jersey
11:58 - Standert Kreissäge RS
24:32 - BBUC Interview
25:07 - How BBUC got started
27:39 - About the Hotel am Brillantengrund and its connection to BBUC
30:12 - Stories behind their design choices, Outdoor Disco and The Sport of Tomorrow
31:52 - Transitioning from partying late to riding early
33:10 - Moving away from boring performance-specific messaging
36:33 - Being an expression rather than a brand
38:51 - Connecting with people through their journal and Discord
41:17 - Design inspiration is everywhere
43:39 - Bringing more than kit for the Fictional Nations concept
47:46 - Using design to communicate ideas vs. stand out
51:48 - Doing things that are hard because you care about them
53:19 - What’s next for BBUC
54:37 - Rapid Fire (The start)
56:52 - Taking a serious side to performance and working with schoeller® fabrics
1:02:13 - Rest of Rapid Fire
1:03:26 - Their Canals and Camilliens
1:05:47 - A special 30% discount on BBUC for CFW listeners: Use the code cfw-unicorns
1:08:24 - Into The Canal

Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/cyclingfashionweek
Get in touch: [email protected]

Hit subscribe, leave a comment and a review wherever you listen to podcasts, it helps us share the best in cycling fashion with the world.

With summer heating up, we decided it was finally time to dedicate a whole episode to cycling sunglasses. Well, at least a whole segment. Listen to hear some of our favorite brands and listen as we debate if buying fake ones from AliExpress is good enough.

1:23 - Early season riding highlights
3:28 - Initial takes on Netflix’s Tour de France: Unchained (Spoilers?!)
11:09 - Italian Alex reviews his Grin27 kit
14:05 - We are not making merch
15:06 - News
15:32 - Rubber N' Road’s Central Park Cycling Club jersey $$$
23:43 - Pas Normal Studios Solitude Capsule
32:22 - Café du Cycliste x agnès b. collab
37:17 - Panache Police: All About Cycling Sunglasses
38:16 - AliExpress knockoffs vs. The real thing
40:26 - Gigantic sunglasses (Looking at you, 100% and Bollé)
42:09 - Helmet compatibility
44:33 - Oakleys
46:35 - Italian Alex’s Briko Detectors
51:06 - Skyler’s Smith Bobcats and some other favs: MAAP/100% collab, Koos, Oakley Sutro Sweeps
53:55 - Options for prescription cycling sunglasses
58:10 - Sungods
58:28 - Are budget brands like Van Rysel and Pit Viper as good as the bigger brands that are twice the price? 
1:00:36 - Into The Canal

Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/cyclingfashionweek
Get in touch: [email protected]

Hit subscribe, leave a comment and a review wherever you listen to podcasts, it helps us share the best in cycling fashion with the world.

This week, we are joined by Terrence and Jesse from the Arizona-based kit brand Heavy Pedal to talk about their cycling scene, kit manufacturing, balancing earth tones and bolder designs, and how they got their start. Plus, Warren tries out purple bibs and has feelings. 

1:39 - Tony is back and he thinks being a parent is easy
3:30 - Does Mallorca go in the canal with Girona?
8:20 - Introducing Terrence and Jesse from Heavy Pedal
9:37 - How they got into cycling
12:50 - The Arizona cycling scene
13:45 - Does Arizona have an influence on their kit?
14:56 - Where do their design ideas come from?
17:08 - The greatest cycling battle: Earth tones vs. Bold, eccentric designs
19:36 - Deciding the kind of kit you want to wear for a given ride
20:58 - Creating a $100 kit option
24:16 - Handling customer feedback and quality control
29:07 - Their manufacturing process
34:18 - Their approach to pricing and industry pricing in general
37:39 - The Heavy Pedal origin story: From fixie blog to bikes to kit
44:30 - Next steps for the brand
46:43 - Custom kit… custom CFW kit?
51:20 - Rapid Fire
56:21 - Terrence and Jesse’s Canals & Camillens
1:00:32 - Into The Canal

Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/cyclingfashionweek
Get in touch: [email protected]

Hit subscribe, leave a comment and a review wherever you listen to podcasts, it helps us share the best in cycling fashion with the world.

This week we are joined by Dani, creator of upstart cycling kit and endurance sportswear brand Grin27 from Los Angeles. We talk about the start of the brand and their approach to design and marketing that strays from industry norms. Plus, we debate pressing issues like white bibs and if Girona is in the canal. 

2:35 - Remco’s White Bibs at Liege Bastogne Liege
5:37 - Pas Normal Studios UCI Gravel Series Winners Jersey
11:50 - UCI Nations Track Cup hosted near Toronto and an ugly Dutch kit
18:05 - Skyler’s Sidi Shoes Update
19:37 - Introducing Spandex Sunday
20:37 - Grin27 Interview
20:40 - Introducing Dani, creator of Grin27
21:06 - Where the brand came from
23:09 - Starting as a blog with information for new cyclists
25:54 - Branding for the reality of riding in the city
27:33 - Embracing suffering as a brand mantra
32:00 - Grin27’s design inspiration from music, skateboarding, photography
37:34 - Group rides, repair workshops, and other ways the brand welcomes new cyclists 
44:32 - Future plans for Grin27 and broadening accessibility for more sports
46:32 - Plans for women’s specific kit
47:41 - Rapid Fire
53:02 - Dani’s Canal
55:49 - Into The Canal

Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/cyclingfashionweek
Get in touch: [email protected]

Hit subscribe, leave a comment and a review wherever you listen to podcasts, it helps us share the best in cycling fashion with the world.

This week, we catch up on new cycling kit releases, address some hotly debated posts on our Instagram, debate if influencer culture is hurting kit aesthetics, and play our first-ever audio submission for Into The Canal.

0:10 - Mazel Tov to Tony
2:01 - Iridescent shoes?
5:29 - A follow up on the Attaquer Spotted Gum kit: Do people hate fun? Or is influencer culture affecting cycling style? (Plus, a shoutout to Tanline)
9:51 - News
10:38 - Erosion Collection from Attaquer
16:14 - Velocio SS23
20:47 - Aime Leon Dore Knit Cycling Jersey
29:42 - Into The Canal
30:47 - Listener submission from Evan
34:00 - Listener submission from @delayedwave
48:07 - We Rate Your Bike For Free: LF's Cherubim

Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/cyclingfashionweek
Get in touch: [email protected]

Hit subscribe, leave a comment and a review wherever you listen to podcasts, it helps us share the best in cycling fashion with the world.

Cody Chouinard, one of three partners of the coffee/bike shop Luft Los Angeles, joins us to for an in-depth chat about cycling retail, kit trends, and the (honestly amazing sounding) L.A. cycling scene. Guest host Skyler also gives some insight of her own after a recent trip riding out west.

0:41 - Shoutout to Pop Cycling
2:18 - Skyler’s team issue Sidi shoes
5:53 - Shoutout to Skyler’s team, Cyclery Racing
10:44 - Skyler’s experience riding in L.A.
13:28 - Interview with Cody from Luft Los Angeles
14:00 - How bad can a winter storm in L.A. be?
16:59 - Cody’s take on leg warmers: over or under?
18:23 - How Cody landed in L.A. from Vermont
20:49 - The beginnings of Luft and the connection with BlackHeart Bikes
22:16 - Running a physical shop in the era of online shopping
26:07 - How do they compete with online powerhouses discounting kit?
28:38 - Are kit brands starting to produce fewer releases?
29:45 - After earth tones, what’s the next design trend?
31:26 - The current trends in L.A.
33:28 - Shred shirts for cycling / Deep base layer talk
35:48 - The kit scene in L.A.
38:20 - Most underrated LA kit brands: Team Too Late, Cadence Collection, Grin27
39:55 - #LADoesntSuckForCycling
41:54 - Cody’s route suggestions for Skyler
42:53 - Luft’s collection of Strava routes on their site
43:59 - Withholding routes as a form of gatekeeping
47:24 - Building community out of the shop through routes, events, rentals
50:47 - Actually caring about creating community
54:39 - Rapid Fire
1:01:23 - Cody’s Canal & Camillien 
1:07:06 - Into The Canal

Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/cyclingfashionweek
Get in touch: [email protected]

Hit subscribe, leave a comment and a review wherever you listen to podcasts, it helps us share the best in cycling fashion with the world.

We are joined by Instagram-famous sommelier, wine vlogger, and Ka.dre team rider Cokie (@cokiesworldofwine) for a live wine tasting. We sample wines from all over the world and liken them to cycling brands and personality types, and Tony has a few too many glasses.

2:46 - AG2R denim bibs at Strade Bianche
7:21 - Introducing Cokie and her World of Wine
8:37- Cokie explains the Kadre racing team
10:53 - Life as a sommelier and talking wine & cycling
15:41 - The Wine Tasting
19:43 - The Champagne Cyclist
25:14 - The Asti/Sweet Wine Cyclist 
33:22 - What’s more snobby: wine or cycling?
34:51 - Are natural wines the CX race of wines? 
37:48 - What is the natural wine cycling kit?
39:22 - Tony’s take on craft beer
41:03 - The Chianti Classico Cyclist
(A lot of wine talk)
53:36 - Trying to bring it back to cycling
54:03 - The Rioja Cyclist
58:51 - Neutral tones as frame colours?
1:04:43 - The Dessert Wine Cyclist
1:07:03 - We Rate Your Bike For Free: Cokie’s Aquila Kadre Team Bike

Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/cyclingfashionweek
Get in touch: [email protected]

Hit subscribe, leave a comment and a review wherever you listen to podcasts, it helps us share the best in cycling fashion with the world.