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 minutes Yes, 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 minutes Mention the word ‘standard’ to anyone who knows something about bikes and you’ll be greeted with a wry smile, an eye roll, an angry tirade, or all of the above. Sure, ‘standards’ exist, but can something really be called a ‘standard’ when there’s more than one? Or, when it comes to bottom brackets, when it feels like we’re closer to a hundred and one… And yet, in almost the same breath, there’s seemingly fresh cause to celebrate as more and…
Read the yell...Reading Time: 3 minutes I called him out on not being sharp enough, and his response was to be rude.
Read the yell...Reading Time: 5 minutes What 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.
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Reading Time: 4 minutes Quite 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.
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Reading Time: 5 minutes Bicycle ‘design’ is boring and I mean both in terms of visual appeal and in terms of design and designing…
Read the yell...Reading Time: 4 minutes Does the bike world need another half baked ‘standard’?
Read the yell...Reading Time: 4 minutes The crisp, fresh smell in the air, the early morning light and knowing that the chance of bumping into any of the interstate interlopers I saw heading in with bikes strapped to their cars would be nowhere in sight.
Read the yell...Reading Time: 8 minutes Lately there has been a lot of hoopla about the supposed war going on between ‘cyclists’ and drivers…
Read the yell...Reading Time: 5 minutes Now this might come as a shock to some retailers but I have a theory about just why you might be loosing business. The theory is simple and goes something like this – you suck.
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