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  MacadamiaAgain, I suck. Well over a month since the last post, but hey I am slowly getting quicker. Bear with me, and by the end of the decade I might be posting every week… Anyway, check out this little beauty. This is the new Macadamia Ribcage Rim. It’s a sort of rich chocolatey brown. This […]
  Man Updates Website… Grey Marmosets ShipHmmmm…. No entries for a while… better think of an excuse… Something about a dog.. no, better still a lion… OK a huge Lion has been sitting on my chest for the last 9 weeks. This Lion was absolutely adamant that I would not post another blog entry until the Grey Marmosets were available.. Luckily […]
  RibcageOn your marks. Get set. GO! The other ribcages have finally landed. Chrome 48s have now been joined by the hard anodised black and natural options in 48 AND 36 hole drilling, and to complete the range the chrome 36’s are hiding in there too. So whatever your ribcage desires, they can now be fullfilled! […]
  Pretty Colours !!!What happens if you take the world’s cutest front hub and anodise it a pretty colour? This…. These Marmosets should be available as a limited edition run sometime around the middle of next month. We call the colours “catamenia-berry” and “steelium-bolloxide”….. Actually no. We just call them Red and Grey, and we suggest you do […]
  M7 Wheel in ShopsI am pretty excited because after 12 years the first wheel incorporating a G-Sport hub is finally in shops. The M7 wheel is a stock front wheel, built to the highest possible standards. Based around the legendary Marmoset 36 hole front hub, into a proven Odyssey 7ka rim with Odyssey’s new top quality spokes. Now […]
  OK here we go.OK here we go. It’s finally time to go public with the new site and you are looking at it. It’s always going to be an ongoing thing adding content and product information but the basics are here. Feel free to wander round and look at everything. The tech columns have migrated over, and as […]
  Wheel Fiddling*This article first appeared in Ride UK (#91) and is reproduced here by kind permission of Ride UK. This month I want to continue where I left off last time. If you remember I had just finished assembling the worlds most garish wheel, a lovely little rear 48, laced 4 cross and interlaced under the […]
  Chain Tension*This article first appeared in Ride UK (#88) and is reproduced here by kind permission of Ride UK. This month’s tech column is going to be about chain tension. But before I get on to that I should probably ramble on about something pretty much unrelated for a while. In this case I want to […]
  How tight is tight?*This article first appeared in Ride UK (#87) and is reproduced here by kind permission of Ride UK. People like Jeremy Clarkson often talk about torque. Unfortunately they either just quote a number or skirt right past it like it is this incredibly difficult concept to understand. The truth is that torque is very simple […]
  Chain*This article first appeared in Ride UK (#85) and is reproduced here by kind permission of Ride UK. When the very first bicycles were being developed, simplicity was king. We are talking about Scotsmen scooting about on wooden frames with wooden wheels and wooden forks. This soon developed into the first real bicycles, where rather […]
  Isn’t that bike a bit small for you mate?*This article first appeared in Ride UK (#84) and is reproduced here by kind permission of Ride UK. Chances are that at some point some incredibly witty sort will have shouted this tired old phrase after you as you roll down the street. You may have noticed that they wait until you are a fair […]
  Bent Frame Spotting*This article first appeared in Ride UK (#83) and is reproduced here by kind permission of Ride UK. When the ancient Egyptians were laying out the great pyramid at Giza over four and a half thousand years ago they had little more than bits of wood and string to help them lay it out. And […]