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: 11 minutes I, like many out there, have been riding for far too long and have always worked to the accepted basics of mileage establishes base fitness and targeted sessions build strength etc. etc. Nowhere, in all those years, did I ever hear or read anyone saying sure, 2 minutes a session is all you need.
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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.
Read the yell...Reading Time: 8 minutes Cycling with diabetes, with cycling being an aerobic activity and all, is high on the list of activities that don’t play nicely together.
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Reading Time: 4 minutes To all those young spuds out there, you probably have never known anything other than ‘grips’, regardless of the shape or form. But back in the early to mid 90’s when mountain biking was making its mark, using bar tape on your bars was not unheard of.
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Reading Time: 7 minutes I thought I’d add my tuppence with this photo sequence of how I wrap mine…
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Reading Time: 5 minutes A little while back, my good lady wife’s bike was in need of a spring clean so I took the opportunity to finally cover something I’ve been meaning to do for ages – cables. But this is not so much a ‘how to setup and tune your brakes and gears’ and more like ‘how to keep your cabling tidy when you do it’… The cable of choice for me at the moment is the Jagwire ‘Racer’ or ‘Hyper’ range – they’re…
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Reading Time: 5 minutes Saddles are perhaps the most personal item in cycling — what works perfectly for one rider could feel like sitting on pine cones to another. For some, even the visual appeal of a particular saddle could be enough for them to persist with something less comfortable, or to reject what might otherwise be the perfect perch in the case of an uglier duckling. We reviewed three of the SQlab road range previously. It is fair to say that visually they…
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Reading Time: 7 minutes For Campagnolo, 2017 was a big year. They launched a range of products to the market which many speculated whether the company would even attempt so soon in their new ‘H11’ road disc range. But how would it stack up against Shimano and SRAM — both of whom already had years of experience with disc brakes? On the back of the Record EPS groupset review we posted in September 2017, Campagnolo sent us the relevant parts to convert that groupset…
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Reading Time: 5 minutes Off-the-peg carbon from the custom carbon specialists. Parlee are a brand I have admired from afar for a while. They came to prominence when a riding buddy ordered a custom Z2 from Bespoke Cycling in London sometime around 2008 — a bike which blew me away when I first saw it as the lacquered raw carbon finish looked incredible. Since then I have watched Parlee grow and seen their progression; from the stock Z4 and the full custom Z1, 2…
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Reading Time: 6 minutes Melbourne-based Curve sent us their ‘Belgie Spirit’ frame to see what we thought of it… Mention the word ‘Titanium’ in certain circles and you’ll see grown men glaze over, drifting off into romantic, wistful state of Bike Lust. Thankfully it is not a material that is likely to be leaving the bike industry in any hurry, so bikes like the one featured here will hopefully continue to romance us for a long time to come. However, it is also…
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