2015 Bontrager Aeolus D3 TLR – lighter, faster, more versatile?
If you’ve been watching the news recently, you might have noticed the news about Bontrager announcing a new evolution of their Aeolus carbon aero wheels. These new updated wheel bring a few useful updates that should help keep them on your possible shortlist for high end aero wheels. The previous versions got some excellent reviews […]
Winter Bikes 2014: Trek, Kinesis, Genesis & De Rosa
In the Northern hemisphere Autumn has well and truly arrived. The clocks have gone back, temperatures are dropping and the roads are getting a bit more slippery now that we’ve had some proper rain. It’s the time of the year to consider your winter bike and it’s one of my favourite subjects. My simple definition […]
Bontrager RL Road Visibility Shoe review
The most consistent thing about my riding this summer has probably been my shoes. My riding has been irregular as strangely I find summer the hardest time of the year to find the time to ride. For the 6 weeks of the school holidays, any day I’m not at work I’m looking after my kids. […]
Trek launch the 2013 Madone – aero and light and definitely interesting
Trek is a company I’ve struggled with at times but I think they’re on a bit of a roll at present and I wanted to note the new Madone as I genuinely believe they’re doing interesting things and want to recognise and applaud this. Up until the launch of the Speed Concept back in 2010 […]
How far to upgrade an entry level road bike
Most of us start out on an entry level road bike to keep our initial investment in cycling low-ish until we’re sure we’re going to keep riding and enjoying it. This is a sensible approach to minimise how much money you’re risking to try the sport out. However, once you do start riding regularly and […]
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, […]
Winter bike ordered (finally): Trek 1.5
Thanks to the good folk on Twitter yesterday afternoon – I’ve finally snapped out of my analysis paralysis ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analysis_paralysis) and I’ve placed an order for a Trek 1.5. My friends on Twitter were absolutely right – time to just get on with it and I have. The fact is that if money weren’t an […]
The Trek 1.5 – A “bargain” winter bike?
Today I happened to be talking to one of my favourite people in the bike trade, Ritch Hilton-Foster of Ride in Poole (http://www.ridebike.co.uk/). Ritch is a great guy and if you’re in the area I highly commend Ride to you – they’re a really top bunch of guys. Now Ritch, rides a Colnago C59 in […]