Spring in Castagneto 2009 PHOTOS!

Check out photos from our fabulous spring trip. Getting fit in Tuscany couldn't have been more fun... or beautiful!

Cinghiale has a new address

Cinghiale Cycling Tours, Inc.

961 6th Street, Boulder, CO 80302

You can reach Andy and Elaine at

 720-565-0346

Please remember to send your final payments to Elaine Lauterbach at the new Boulder address rather than the old Seattle one. 

You can also find the address at the bottom of every page on the Cinghiale site and on the Contacts page.

Thank you!

Julia

Cinghiale Corporate HQ

Grazie e Ciao

Julia with one of her latest gouache/paper collages, called Interlaken. 

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(This is my retirement party, so drink a glass of Brunello di Montalcino while you read this. Salute!).

Big thanks to Andy for the generous words below and for eight years of fun, creativity, collaboration, camaraderie, and good hard work at Cinghiale, Inc. It's been a great ride and I will miss the daily interaction with Andy and Elaine. They make a truly wonderful team. 

I am excited to be embarking on a new phase of my life with my art front and center. I'm developing  a new website that will consolidate my three lines of artistic work. Till then, you can keep an eye on what I'm up to at the following places:

Julia Hensley Paintings and Art News

Art Classes

Art Community and Conversation

Drop me a note if you feel so inspired - I'd love to hear from you. I'll still be popping up here from time to time too, so watch out for random art posts. 

Thanks for reading, and thanks for being part of the incomparable Cinghiale community. Ride your bike, eat good olive oil, look at art, and enjoy that glass of wine in good health -

Ciao!

Julia

Bike Talk

Check out this new interview... it's about a guy who rides a bike.

A NEW HOME

For many years we have looked to Julia for daily piggy inspiration and now she moves on to inspire us in other ways. 

When the going gets tough, the tough find an art teacher. We are happy that even in these economic times people are still appreciating art, custom bike frames, and extra virgin olive oil. Julia is marching to her true calling, that of art, and besides teaching classes at a local college, she is teaching privately, all the while creating some pretty amazing pieces of her own... 

What does this mean for us? A happy farewell to our resident artist, Julia, and a new home for the mail.

Please note that our office/mailing address is now in Boulder, so please send your fan mail to:

Cinghiale Cycling Tours, Inc.

961 6th St.

Boulder, CO 80302

Elaine will be doing her best to fill in where Julia left off, so please send questions, comments and concerns to elaine@cinghiale.com... complaints still get sent to Andy.

A heartfelt thank you to Julia for all that she has done here at Cinghiale; she has been present every step of the way... and she will be missed!

We hope you all are enjoying some spring riding!

~The Cinghiale Crew

C'est La Vie

Belgian Knee Warmers publishes the whole of Road Bike Action's recent interview with Andy about the 1986 Tour for an article about current conflict within the Astana team.

The electricity crackles in Andy's recounting of the conflict between Hinault and Lemond, told from his viewpoint as both white jersey and 4th place GC. Wear rubber-soled shoes.

1988: Epic Cartography

Rich Roat and pals at House Industries, known for their crazy fun fonts and designs, have been enjoying the 1988 Giro handbook. With any luck we will see some collaboration inspired by the old on the new Cinghiale poster and jersey.