OPINIONS.
YELLING AT CLOUDS...
We’ve been around the block, several times, so we have opinions about most things to do with bikes. And we are going to share them… here.
Reading Time: 4 minutesSomething like 15-years between drinks on a Nicolai, then two come along at once… sort of.
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?
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…
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…
Reading Time: 5 minutesStandards? You realise this is the bike industry, right?…
Reading Time: 3 minutesI called him out on not being sharp enough, and his response was to be rude.
Reading Time: 5 minutesWhat better way to mark a sporadic comeback to writing about bikes, than to write about something totally foreign to many in this, the age of 12x gearing.
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuite literally when this frame, a pre-production sample, was being welded up, frames for 27.5″ were already in production. That meant at least a year and a half prior, the ‘industry’ had already decided that the 26″ wheel was dead.
Reading Time: 5 minutesBicycle ‘design’ is boring and I mean both in terms of visual appeal and in terms of design and designing…
Reading Time: 4 minutesDoes the bike world need another half baked ‘standard’?
