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Monthly Archives: December 2022

How To Guides, News

Love ❤️ Winter Outdoors?️

Author Rick Robson Date December 30, 2022
With the Northern hemisphere winter half way through – Come on, we can do...
Tagged bad weather cycling, cycling outdoors, ride outdoors winter, Spatz, SpatzPro, winter bike riding, winter cycle training, winter cycling clothing, winter group rides, winter road training |
News

Low Cost Winter Products

Author Rick Robson Date December 29, 2022
Riding a bike regularly doesn’t have to be a costly experience, check out our...
How To Guides, News

Keep Surviving Winter – like a BOSS!

Author Rick Robson Date December 28, 2022
It’s that time of the year again in the northern hemisphere. Summer is a...
Tagged autumn cycling, snow cycling, winter cycling, winter riding |
News

Brand Focus – Veloflex

Author Rick Robson Date December 23, 2022
Describing themselves as the tyre artisans, Veloflex have been producing specialist tyres, deep in...
Tagged veloflex italy, veloflex tlr, veloflex tubular, veloflex tyre |
How To Guides, News

No Tubes for 3 Years

Author Rick Robson Date December 21, 2022
Following the initial ‘12 Months Tubeless‘ and the following ‘24 Months Tubeless‘ it’s time...
Tagged Continental TL, Muc-Off Tubeless, peatys tubeless, pirelli tlr, Schwalbe G-One, Schwalbe TLE, stans tubeless, tl tyres, tubeless, tubeless cycling, tubeless tyre, vittoria tlr |
News

2022 – Blog Top 10

Author Rick Robson Date December 19, 2022
It is that time again; Christmas tunes on the radio, ‘The Italian Job’ on...
Tagged cycling blog |
How To Guides, News

2023 – BYOB! (Build Your Own Bike)

Author Rick Robson Date December 19, 2022
In this modern world, where bikes of every type are squeezed through the industry...
Tagged bike build, frameset |
How To Guides, Uncategorized

It’s ‘Love Your Chain’ Day…

Author Rick Robson Date December 18, 2022
Ok, there isn’t an official ‘Love Your Chain Day’. But there really should be…...
Tagged 10speed chain, 11speed chain, bike chain, bike mechanics, bike transmission, campagnolo chain, chain checker, chain life, chain life tool, chain wear, kmc chain, shimano chain, sram chain |
News

Brand Focus – TRP

Author Rick Robson Date December 16, 2022
The brand is widely known for their braking systems whch have been their sole...
Tagged trp brake, trp caliper, trp hy-rd, trp rotor, trp spyre |
News

Brand Focus – Troy Lee Designs

Author Rick Robson Date December 14, 2022
Two elements in life were strong and constant for Troy Lee – Racing and...
Tagged troy lee clothing, troy lee designs, troy lee designs a3, troy lee designs d4, troy lee designs drift, troy lee helmet, troy lee shorts |
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