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The toastery cycling club

through the gold circle

You sit at a café table with a teapot in front of you and look through an enormous gold-rimmed opening into a room full of bicycles. Ochre curtains from floor to ceiling, a mustard banquette along the back, lockers by the door.

The cycling studio framed by a large gold-rimmed circular opening: ochre floor-to-ceiling curtains, a row of spin bikes with pale wood frames, and a mustard banquette beneath a lit skylight.

Inside

three rooms

Room one, room two and room three, labelled in letterspaced caps on small plaques set into the curtain wall.

The cycling studio: floor-to-ceiling ochre curtains with three recessed alcoves labelled ROOM ONE, ROOM TWO and ROOM THREE, a long mustard banquette with cushions, spin bikes in the foreground and striped skirted stools alongside.
A mustard leather snap-close menu folder on a wooden table beside a 1939 John Player and Sons cigarette-card album titled Cycling 1839–1939, next to a white cup.

A note on cycling

1839 – 1939

On one of the tables sits a John Player & Sons cigarette-card album from 1939, a hundred years of cycling in fifty small pictures, pencil-marked twenty pounds. It is not decoration in the usual sense. It is the same instinct that hung the boulangerie painting and chose the marble. A room assembled by someone who collects things.

riding with us

The studio sits behind the dining room, through the gold circle. Ask at the counter on your way past.