The Monsal Hill Climb started as a couple of mates timing each other in a race up an unpaved hill at the end of the track season. 

“We’re cycling from Turin to Nice” I try to explain in broken Italian and hand gestures to Sergio, who runs a bike rental shop at the bottom of the Col de Tende…

Albion is now available to buy at Four Boroughs, Crystal Palace.

The Galibier is a mythical mountain in cycling folklore.

At 2,642m above sea level, it was for a long time the undisputed highest point of the Tour de France.

Jojo Harper is a 29 year old photographer from St Agnes in Cornwall.

There’s a bike shop that sits near the top of East Hill in Wandsworth called Stratton Cycles.

It’s been there for nearly 100 years.

Transmission #003 is a selection of music produced by British artists.

You might not have heard of British photographer Gerry Cranham, and that wouldn’t bother him one bit. As it happens, he might be the most important sports photographer to ever pick up a camera.

It is said that to live on Skye you need to be resilient, inventive, humorous, tough, self-sufficient, waterproof, patient and lucky.

You could say the same of being a cyclist in Britain.

At Albion we make cycling gear for all sorts of weather.

For our first spring/summer range, we set out to create a small collection of versatile clothing and accessories to suit the changing British seasons, whilst also steadily evolving our colour palette.

Transmission #002 is a mix of music from Angus Morton.

Angus Morton is a professional bike racer for US Continental team Jelly Belly-Maxxis. He’s also one half of Thereabouts with his brother Lachlan, himself a professional bike racer for World Tour team Dimension Data.

We’ve teamed up with Thereabouts and Cycling Tips to put on a screening of the new Thereabouts film “Thereabouts 3: Discovering Colombia”, to raise money for Qhubeka.

Owen Powell is a data visualisation artist using open source mapping data to create beautifully detailed images and 3D terrain models.

We’ve collaborated with Owen on an original image and 3D terrain model of the Irfon Valley in Wales, a location that features prominently in the photography of Albion season 1.

Britain has a long and distinguished history of producing technical outdoor gear for the harshest environments.

Iconic brands like Berghaus, Rab, Rohan and Karrimor have been at the forefront of technical innovation in outdoor adventuring for many decades.