July 17th, 2006

July 17th, 2006

Le Maillot Jaune - Fashion Victim

No, I’m not talking about the maillot jaune…
After our epic ride out we went to Charnock Richard Cycles, Britain’s biggest independent cycle retailer, to scope out budget road bikes for one of the family. The road section is full of aluminium and carbon framed skinny tyred beauties from the likes of Trek, Specialized and Giant.
And […]

July 17th, 2006

Super Motard

Plenty of Room

Another weekend, another long ride out together. Since I broke the rear hub of my hardtail we are either out on horribly mismatched bikes, a Pompino and a geared Spot, or fat-tyred full suspension behemoths.
Or we could do as the motorbikes do and go super-motard. Cue one pair of Specialized Fat Boys for […]

July 17th, 2006

RIP Alps 4R

Alps 4R On the Burner in happier times

I noticed the back of the tandem was squatted right down yesterday morning. Most unusual.
Fetching the shock pump revealed that the venerable Alps 4R had lost all pressure. A few strokes later and it was obvious it was never going to hold any again. Almost as fast as […]

July 17th, 2006

I Don’t Get It…

Not only are Swobo back, but they are about to
launch a range of street bikes in an attempt to make cycling ‘cool’.
Oh dear.
To me this move into urban cool street bikes just looks like the sort of incestuous marketing to trendy This Life/Cold Feet types that led to the dot-com boom.
It leaves me cold.

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