Cyclocross Anatomy

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Roland-5 ALAN cyclocross bikeCyclocross racer on Roland 5 ALAN bikeCyclocross racers on Roland-5 ALAN cyclocross bikeI believe that I have finally found the perfect marriage of two things I love in life, biking and anatomy.This is the brand new cyclocross bike, handcrafted in Italy by ALAN and imported and painted by Stellina Sport.  The wonderfully talented Noah Scalin of the Skull-a-Day blog was asked to design the graphics applied to the bike, along with an anatomically correct femur on the top bar to, according to Noah, "further represent the idea of this exposed structure and the powerful legs that are used to move the bike forward."They also ended up putting the femur on the ALAN North America Cyclocross team uniforms in the anatomically correct position "so that it has an x-ray effect."Noah let me know that there's also a new bike in the works actually called "the Noah" that will feature a skull graphic specially designed by him.  Can't wait to see that one!In the meantime, I'll dream about owning that orange Roland-5 ALAN bike pictured above...

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