Winter cycling Part 4 – Keeping your bike working
The joys of bike cleaning… Winter biking can kill your pride and joy, or rather if you leave your bike mouldering in a damp shed...
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Winter cycling Part 3 – Riding through the winter
Note – I published the first two of these ‘Winter cycling’ articles at the start of November and since then the ‘real’ winter has failed...
Winter cycling Part 2 – The clothes dilemma
In my experience what to wear during the Autumn and Winter is the biggest issue that stops people cycling as the weather deteriorates. It’s a...
Winter cycling Part 1 – Dealing with the winter weather
Note – While I’ve written these articles with respect to mountain-biking, it’s aimed at the trail/XC end of MTB, so much of the information is...
SRAM eTAP – Gamechanger?
There’s been a fair bit of coverage of the new SRAM electronic groupset in the cycle press recently, so it was interesting to see a...
Cycle Show 2016 – A brief round up and all things orange
Firstly… apologies for the tardiness in getting this update to press… it’s been a busy month or so… anyway back to ‘proper’ business… Our third...
Bianchi factory recall 2015 – Sempre Pro and Oltre models
On Friday (4th September 2015) I had a call from my local bike shop saying that my Bianchi Sempre Pro was subject to a factory safety...
Cycling Hardknott and Wrynose Passes
Thank you Hardknott that was the toughest days riding ever, but I’m so glad that I did it. Over the past twelve months we’ve talked...
Upgrading the CAADX – Tubeless disc brake road wheels?
My Cannondale CAADX is still running exactly as it came out of the shop, with it’s Sora groupset and bog-standard wheels… all unchanged apart from...
Rapha Camelbak water bottle
I already have two Camelbak water bottles – there’s absolutely nothing wrong with them, they work perfectly every time and still have plenty of life...