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 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: 5 minutesFirst things first, don’t go near any glue – get those tyres unpacked and mounted onto a set of rims…
Reading Time: 6 minutesPaired with the right chainring (duh!), you just don’t need 11 or 12 gears…
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.
Reading Time: 6 minutesI am more than amused about my thinking at the time. Why?
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: 2 minutes“35 years on tubulars and I’ve never seen one folded the way you did. Share with us the techniques, please?”
Reading Time: 11 minutesI, 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.
