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Those Noises You Don’t Want to Hear

Author Rick Robson Date January 13, 2023
Listen to your bike. Just like your other loved ones, it...
Tagged bike maintenance, bike mechanic, clean bike, clicking bike, creaking bike, healthy bike, noisy bike, rattling bike, squeaky bike |
How To Guides, News

10 Ways you are Ruining your Bike?

Author Rick Robson Date January 13, 2023
Got a bike that you love, cherish and adore? Clothing that...
Tagged look after bike, maintain bike |
How To Guides, News

Love ❤️ Winter Outdoors?️

Author Rick Robson Date December 30, 2022
With the Northern hemisphere winter half way through – Come on,...
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 |
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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....
Tagged autumn cycling, snow cycling, winter cycling, winter riding |
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No Tubes for 3 Years

Author Rick Robson Date December 21, 2022
Following the initial ‘12 Months Tubeless‘ and the following ‘24 Months...
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 |
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2023 – BYOB! (Build Your Own Bike)

Author Rick Robson Date December 19, 2022
In this modern world, where bikes of every type are squeezed...
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...
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 |
How To Guides, News

15 Tips – Get WINTER READY!❄??

Author Rick Robson Date November 24, 2022
Are you prepared for riding in the Winter months? Here are...
Tagged bike mudguards, cycling mudguards, cycling winterwear, Spatz, SpatzWear, warm cycling winter, winter clothing cycling, winter cycling, winter riding |
How To Guides, News

Heading into Winter, on a Road Bike?

Author Rick Robson Date September 29, 2022
While some riders transition onto a bombproof, mud-guarded old hack bike...
Tagged cycling mudguards, cycling winter, G2X GRX, malt gravel, Merlin Malt, mudflap, mudguards, SpatzWear, waterproof cycling, winter bike, winter cross bike, winter cycle training, winter cycling, winter cyclocross bike, winter MTB, Winter off road, winter riding, winter road bike |
How To Guides

Ride in Extreme Heat?

Author Rick Robson Date July 21, 2022
When temperatures creep over 20 degrees C, we get all giddy....
Tagged covid 19, covid cycling, heat cycling, hot cycling, summer cycling, uk cycling, warm cycling |
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