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lovely shots

my God she's moving at Warp Factor 6 - '...Jim I canna hold her...'

and the wasps...tedious it's always fun to be barrelling along and see a small dot coming then, BAM on the helmet or BBBBBZZZZZTTTTT into the helmet vent or straight down the shirt - which prompts rapid panic braking and much flapping

Ah flint. In the 1990s, on a brand new Klein, going off the left from the SDW just before Firle Beacon I did a flying mile down into the hidden valleys...always exciting. Not so pleasurable was the huge dull thunk halfway down, and the flint which came up from the front wheel had pushed a 4 cm...

Yikes where were you? In Thetford, since the start of the Ukraine conflict, there's been much gunfire at the weekends on the ranges from PAF! tp BRRRRRRP!!! to DUNK=DUNK=DUNK!!! - ie single shot small calibre, then small cal machine gun, then heavy cal machine gun. We respect the red flags on...

I worried about this happening when I used a child seat on various bikes when the Groms were Small Things. I read of the risk, and deliberately avoided putting the seats on some frames. Well so much for my smart arse comments. Now...the dent. They can play on the mind, but these ones, in this...

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...and with those lengths that tubing has to be gas pipe rather than double or triple butted... therefore functionally dubious aesthetically monstrous irreconcilably messy and heavy a sort of cycling evolutionary offshoot and dead end like the panda it joins URT generally the Mantra...

I remain completely at sea as to what it is FOR. The position of the seat over the rear wheel (way back) means that it will be terrifying on climbs. The compliance of the main triangle will mean that it tracks off-road in the manner of a bedstead made of damp spaghetti. The flex characteristics...

Well....paranoia sets in that the medium BfE 27,5 is too large...much fretting on websites and Joy Of Bike thinks it is a monster. Much work on legislation regarding early developmental checks on children. Reading actual legislation is like reading tea leaves whilst drowning in treacle. To...

anyone? no one? someone? help me! I am lost in the back of the workshop and need to see daylight...!

...follow on...Cinelli - along with Joe Murray - already (and very early) were beginning to really understand the need for longer top tubes....something which was not much of A Thing at the time but I was sure onto - saddle whacked to the front to steepen the effective seat angle, get max TT...

Woah - Columbus tubing? I made a terrible mistake in the late '80s going for a Cannondale rather than a gorgeous steel Cinelli like this. Steel was not the metal of the day then, almost all reviews were pushing stiffness as being essential for MTBs. I quickly learned, being beaten up by the...

Saturday at Mont St Anne was an astonishing end to the season. The news of Loic Bruni turning away from the start gate was unprecedented in recent DH seasons. If you are interested in more detail as to what lay behind his decision not to drop in, there's an excellent short interview which has...

wynne those are glorious trails - where on the Downs? I have ridden hundreds of miles on the South Downs but know that there are still wondreful lines I have not yet done....