Winter bike first ride review: Trek 1.5
After a long drawn out journey, I bought a winter bike around the beginning of December. With work, Christmas, a chest cold and more work getting in the way. I’ve finally managed to get a couple of rides in to give a first ride verdict. So far I’ve managed to do about 120km on it, […]
My cycling product of the year 2011: Garmin Edge 800
Every year there are thousands of new products that are launched and many of them are very good indeed. This year for me there was a standout that made a huge difference to my riding and enjoyment out on the bike – the Garmin Edge 800. For some context I’ll admit that I’ve always been […]
First ride: Kinesis GF_Ti
Yesterday was a glorious winter’s day. It was clear, with bright sunshine, but cold. At 9am at my house it was minus 2 degrees, so I waited a couple of hours and took the photos you see on this post before I headed out. Whenever I’m in the fortunate position to ride a new bike, […]
2011 Mavic Cosmic Carbone SL – thoughts & review
I recently bought myself a pair of 2011 Mavic Cosmic Carbone SL wheels and wanted to share some of my first impressions/thoughts about them as they seem to be a wheelset that quite a few people are curious about. I’ve never owned or ridden deep section wheels before, which will probably explain some of my […]
Strava.com – A fantastic tool, but beware it can dangerous to your ego
As I’ve posted before, I believe there are fundamentally two types of road cyclists – those like the data and those who don’t. Once in a while something comes along that may tempt the non-believers and I think that Strava might well be one of those things. This is because one of the other fundamental […]
First look & Mini Review: 2011 Rose X-Lite 4400
On December 23rd I had a large box arrive at my door from Rose Bikes UK containing a 2011 Rose X-Lite 4400. This post will hopefully give you a background on the company, the bike and my thoughts after a couple of rides over roads I know very well have everything you need to get […]
Bikefit with Adrian Timmis of Cadence Sport – 2,000km update
I’ve done quite a lot of cycling over the last few years, but I still consider myself to be a novice in certain areas like my bike fit and what geometry/frame design suits me best. When I bought my road bike at the beginning of 2005, I had about a 10 minute bike fit; where […]
The Rider
On my last ride with Malcolm, we spent some time talking about cycling books and we ended up agreeing to swap some of our best cycling books. One of the ones I talked about was “The Rider” by Tim Krabbe. Without giving too much away, it’s the story of a bike race. It’s not a […]