Rich
In my circa 35 years of riding I have only ever taken my bikes to a shop when I needed to ask nicely to borrow a tool that I didn’t have - usually in return for a quantity of beers proportionate to the number of staff who worked there, the value of the tool in question and/or the amount of workstand time I wasted.
The number of bikes I have owned is a number that I don’t want my wife to know. Years in the bicycle industry in various guises interspersed a corporate career, ultimately leading to becoming founder, owner, CEO, spanner monkey and Tea Boy of my own home-based workshop, which is The Best Job in the World; and is where I currently practice a solid amount of Yelling At Bikes.
Stuff I've written:
Reading Time: 8 minutesIs wireless shifting the future of electronic groupsets? Intuition is a funny thing. For years we have been shifting our rear derailleurs with our right hands and our front derailleurs with our left hands — a continuation from the days of downtube shifters, for those of us who remember and used them. Electronic gear systems — Shimano’s Di2 and Campagnolo’s EPS; not forgetting Mavic’s Mektronic from back in the day — haven’t changed that, but the arrival of Di2 and EPS was accompanied by a whole heap of patents that attempted to lock up the potential for others to enter…
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Reading Time: 7 minutesTesting the latest light weight and leather offerings from Lake Cycling As a not-so-proud owner of awkward feet, cycling shoes have been a constant battle. Having not only wide feet with but also a high instep and a tendency to pronate, results in a heady mix that writes off many options; and of the manufacturers who do produce a wide option shoe, these are often only offered in limited models from their range. A few years ago, Lake offered the CX402 as a replacement to their previous flagship shoe. Like the CX401 before it, they continued to offer a wide…
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