Kinesis Granfondo Ti v2 – get ready for the evolution!
One of my favourite bikes last year was the first version of the Kinesis Granfondo Ti – it looked and rode beautifully and had the money been spare, I’d now own one as a winter bike, I liked it that much. Comfortable, fast, smooth and a bike that really put a smile on my face. […]
Just in: Kinesis TK3
Readers of this blog will appreciate already that I’m a big fan of winter bikes. You know the ones with clearance for full “proper” mudguards and larger, say up to 28mm tyres. I’m very fortunate in that I have a couple of great summer bikes but when the weather turns and the roads are covered […]
One month until Bespoked Bristol 2012
One month today see’s the start of Bespoked Bristol, a bike show in it’s second year of celebrating independent and artisan bike manufacturers, designers and products. I have to say I’m really, really looking forward to this show like I haven’t about many things for quite sometime. For me as much as I love my […]
Further thoughts: Kinesis GF-Ti
It’s been a couple of weeks now since I had the difficult task of returning the GF_Ti to the good people at Upgrade Bikes. This is not a “review” in the traditional sense of the word as I didn’t manage to ride the bike for as long as I’d have liked but I wanted to […]
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, […]
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, […]
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 […]