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The industry is awash with endless stuff. The question is, does it suck? We review stuff we buy and use, and occasionally something that’s given to us to review… honestly. We’ll tell it like it is.
Reading Time: 6 minutesTechnology 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 minutesIs 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 minutesTesting 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…
Read the yell...Reading Time: 3 minutesI started thinking though, why don’t we just (and others with a similar love affair for older bikes) upgrade to something modern…
Read the yell...Reading Time: 6 minutesThe frame was called the San Andreas and was the first true mountain bike full suspension frame. With a solid background in designing MX machines for the likes of Kawasaki, Reisinger applied a thinking to his design, that up until then (and even now to some extent), was foreign to the bike world.
Read the yell...Reading Time: 4 minutesI’ve often wondered where do old Mountain bikes go? We’ve all owned bikes only to sell them and sometimes wish we hadn’t. The thought had crossed my mind a few times as to how some of these classic old bikes would stack up today.
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