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 minutes Technology and art have always combined in bicycles. One man’s treasure is another man’s poison; but whether your treasure is a hand-built lugged steel machine draped in 8-speed Campagnolo or SRAM eTap hanging off a bang up-to-date creation, the beauty, and elegance of a bicycle are indisputable. Bastion Cycles are taking this perfect marriage up a notch by — according to their own strapline — ‘Engineering a New Art Form’. They sent one our way for a brief dalliance. We…
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Reading Time: 8 minutes Is wireless shifting the future of electronic groupsets? Intuition is a funny thing. For years we have been shifting our rear derailleurs with our right hands and our front derailleurs with our left hands — a continuation from the days of downtube shifters, for those of us who remember and used them. Electronic gear systems — Shimano’s Di2 and Campagnolo’s EPS; not forgetting Mavic’s Mektronic from back in the day — haven’t changed that, but the arrival of Di2 and…
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Reading Time: 7 minutes Testing the latest light weight and leather offerings from Lake Cycling As a not-so-proud owner of awkward feet, cycling shoes have been a constant battle. Having not only wide feet with but also a high instep and a tendency to pronate, results in a heady mix that writes off many options; and of the manufacturers who do produce a wide option shoe, these are often only offered in limited models from their range. A few years ago, Lake offered the…
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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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Reading Time: 6 minutes The sort of stuff I see on a regular basis is a lot more passive but every bit as insidious.
Read the yell...Reading Time: 3 minutes I started thinking though, why don’t we just (and others with a similar love affair for older bikes) upgrade to something modern…
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