Get out and ride…
Friday, May 6th, 2011 Just spoke to James Bowthorpe, he’s the kind of guy that does – a ‘doer’. Here at Finisterre, loads of things have been happening – we have to meet product deadlines, put strategies together, we’re in and out of meetings, we have to grow up and they all need to happen, [...]
Brisa is ‘Beautiful’!!!
Thursday, May 19th, 2011 First year in the making, new to the Finisterre product stable, we’d like to think the Brisa is yet another addition to what is one of the finest base layer companies in the world. It’s breathable performance, designed for high activity, they don’t smell and we’re not the only ones shouting [...]
bike lanes…
Friday, June 10th, 2011 Hilarious, we hope you get your money back Casey, you’ve got us all chuckling in the workshop!
24hrs, 420 miles…
Wednesday, June 29th, 2011 on some very smooth running bearings. Words by the much loved – James Bowthorpe and images, but the very gifted Jonny Donovan I felt pretty euphoric, very endorphined up (natural only, getting high on my own supply). Was AMAZING to have so many people there when I finished and throughout- great to [...]
Blues, Bikes and Gigs
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010 We met Martin Harley for the first time at Eden, sat under some make shift palm tree covered hut, inside one of their grand Biomes. We had a view of the native plants and paradise below and Martin in his cool and calm signature way, brought up some beers and talked us through [...]
We like what he likes
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010 We like recycling bikes and old Brooks saddles and Monocle and Ernest Gonzales and Bike Polo and surf adventures and people of the sea and people who grow veg and cowboys and Sherpas and the list goes on. James Bowden likes bikes and surf boards, and books and camping and Finisterre [...]
We’ve got a World Record Holder
Friday, September 18th, 2009 James Bowthorpe set off about six months ago, he decided to cycle around the world, 18,000 miles on a saddle and at the same time challenge the world record. His bike Santos managed the epic journey and so to did our man James. We’ve been following him over the trip, kept [...]
Most Excellent
Last year a group of 10 fixed gear riders from London planned a trip to Paris, to discover what the scene was around here. For 3 days, we rode east to west and north to south everywhere in Paris… It was really cool to hang out all together, and get these guys to meet the [...]
“Well Done” James – Drinks in London
Thursday, September 24th, 2009 This Weekend we’ll be celebrating James Bowthorpe’s record breaking cycle around the world in London, all in the name of Parkinson’s Disease research. We had mentioned earlier, that a celebration fiesta was going to be organized and so it has, Globecycle’s HQ has managed to spread the word, place should be [...]
On the saddle for 164 days
Monday, March 30th, 2009 Yesterday was the day James Bowthorpe embarked on his ambitious mission to set a new round-the-world cycling record. The 31-year-old furniture maker from London sets off today on an epic 18,000 mile journey cycling an average of 120 miles a day, on his Santos Travelmaster equipped with a Rohloff Speedhub and [...]
