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: 6 minutesPaired with the right chainring (duh!), you just don’t need 11 or 12 gears…
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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.
Read the yell...Reading Time: 6 minutesI am more than amused about my thinking at the time. Why?
Read the yell...Reading Time: 3 minutesI called him out on not being sharp enough, and his response was to be rude.
Read the yell...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.
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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?”
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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.
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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.
Read the yell...Reading Time: 8 minutesCycling 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 minutesTo 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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