The Ministry of Bicycles

Hello Folks.

This page as you can probably tell is now basically defunct.

However, hopefully with a renewed vigour we have moved platforms over to instagram, under a slightly different guise.

If you use instagram and would like to dip in to our tomfoolery, please head over there and give us a follow.



Hope to see you there.

Today marks our first cancelled event of the year, Coffee and Cobbles, a celebration of The Paris Roubaix otherwise known as The Hell of the North, or as we like to call it, the Hell of Northampton.

In the absence of any action, for us or the athletes today, here is a gallery of photos from last years event when we celebrated the Tour of Flanders.

Pete Cobbe - Coffee and Cobbles 2019 Pete Cobbe Northampton photographer

We are going racing, we’d like you to come racing too.

https://www.facebook.com/events/175437256435176??ti=ia

If you'd been down to the woods yesterday.... You may have seen some Gnarly action.....

20 Inches of Fun XR2i The Rag & Bone bicycle club in association with Deathtrap V.C. take to the woods on shoppers.

Just in time for...... ah.... I'm not sure I can bring myself to say it...

Let's start again.

Finally we have shirts for the Bomber Drome!

Limited run, so be quick off the mark should you fancy one!

Hit the link and help us carry on the idiocy!

Many Thanks!

http://thebomberdrome.bigcartel.com/

Just in time for...... ah.... I'm not sure I can bring myself to say it...

Let's start again.

Finally we have shirts for the Bomber Drome!

Limited run, so be quick off the mark should you fancy one!

Hit the link and help us carry on the idiocy!

Many Thanks!

http://thebomberdrome.bigcartel.com/

The Men of Monday have been at it again! Here's this years hand over video. In four weeks time you'll be able to see the results!
http://youtu.be/y_klVFUGLVM

MNIPN 8.8.16 The GSSBO 2.0, hand over.

Unless you were asleep all day yesterday, chances are you have already seen this.

Some friends of ours, Burf from BTR and the legendary Shaggy John getting down and dirty on bikes built to Klunk.

Pop the kettle on, bust out the biscuits and if the boss is about, try to look busy for 17 or so minutes of damp daftness.

https://vimeo.com/163273593

Hack Bike Derby 17 frame builders racing home hacked Klunkers over a rain & fire filled weekend in Somerset. The Hack Bike Derby is an annual event held over 2 days with…

Today a bunch of us are off to the magnificent Hart Family Brewery in Wellingborough to brew up this years batch of Bomberdrome Beer.

You should come and join us next month to sample some and ride the thing itself!

You may have noticed that some folk in Lycra were tearing around France yesterday in the Paris Roubaix, also known as the "Hell du Nord", we couldn't make it, so instead of dusting off our race bikes and cycling 257km, we stole a bunch of kids bikes and raced them on cobbles over a distance of 257 feet, a wiser choice in my eyes for a sunday afternoon..... here's a rubbish film about a cracking afternoon.

16 inches of hell Our interpretation of the Paris Roubaix, racing 16" wheeled kids bikes on cobbles over a distance of 257 feet.

Check out our very own Ricky 'Super Ginge' Brown making and appearance in Built magazine from our visit to the Trip Out last summer.

We only went and made an appearance on the "X Games" website amongst Octobers photos of the month!! Massive thanks to Sammy Carson for the photo and write up!

X Games ZOOM gallery, October 2015 "I was on a 16-day motorcycle trip around the U.K.," says photographer Sandy Carson. "I was documenting a bunch of grimey bikers on tour with Sailor Jerry, and the ending of the trip happened at the Trip Out Festival in Bedford, England. It's a wacky racer's fest for hand-built motorcycles, custom c…