OLD ENOUGH TO KNOW BETTER BUT HERE WE ARE...
Two guys who've been around the block a few times sharing their thoughts, and opinions, about bike stuff.
Reading Time: 4 minutesSomething like 15-years between drinks on a Nicolai, then two come along at once… sort of.
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Reading Time: 4 minutesThe backend had to be Boost because that’s what was needed. The front end, didn’t, unless I wanted it to be and did I want it to be? Did I need it to be?
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Reading Time: 3 minutesIt’s not often I regret selling a bike, but I always regretted selling my old Nicolai – the opportunity to own another couldn’t be ignored…
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Reading Time: 5 minutesI was trawling Facebook Marketplace when a bike I’d lusted over before reappeared. Nostalgia got its teeth into me and my eyes were glazing over…
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Reading Time: 5 minutesWas it possible to make Box Component’s already excellent Prime 9 system even better? Yes, it was.
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Reading Time: 4 minutesYes, you. All of you. New-to-the-sport MAMIL and weathered, battle-hardened wheelmen alike. Do yourself, and all other road users, a favour: Learn to clip-in to your clipless pedals WITHOUT LOOKING. Please, for the good of your own friends and family and for the love of all things cycling, learn. NOW. Cycling is, we are repeatedly told, ‘the new golf’ — I get that. I also get that this means there’s a lot of new cyclists — and I even like…
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Reading Time: 5 minutesStandards? You realise this is the bike industry, right?…
Read the yell...Reading Time: 5 minutesFirst things first, don’t go near any glue – get those tyres unpacked and mounted onto a set of rims…
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Reading Time: 6 minutesPaired with the right chainring (duh!), you just don’t need 11 or 12 gears…
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Reading Time: 5 minutesAnd hanging there, next to the Zen, it goaded me EVERY. SINGLE. TIME, I pulled the Zen off the rack until, finally, for some shits and giggles, I gave it another go; you know, just for the hell of it.
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