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  Click, click, click..*This article first appeared in Ride UK (#82) and is reproduced here by kind permission of Ride UK. Click click click. Or if you are running certain cassette hubs; CLICK CLICK BASTARD CLICK CLICK CLICK, or even CKCKCKCKCKCKCKCKCK. Some people seem to like a really loud click when they freewheel, some people hate it. Personally […]
  Living in a Material World…*This article first appeared in Ride UK (#81) and is reproduced here by kind permission of Ride UK. “Supertherm or Ox platinum? T45 or Reynolds 853? Sanko or Tange? What’s it all about?” Yep, several people have been foolish enough to ask me to write a tech column on all the “fancy” tubes that companies […]
  Handlebars*This article first appeared in Ride UK (#80) and is reproduced here by kind permission of Ride UK. Handlebars, Bars, Steering wings. Call them what you like we all need them. Personally I always find changing bars to be a bit of an ordeal. Not just because I have to wrestle the grips on and […]
  Bottom Brackets AGAIN!!!*This article first appeared in Ride UK (#79) and is reproduced here by kind permission of Ride UK. Once again I find myself writing about bottom brackets. Bollocks. I really don’t want to get labelled as some kind of obsessive dude who only thinks about bottom brackets all day long, yet I don’t seem to have […]
  Flying Tonight?*This article first appeared in Ride UK (#78) and is reproduced here by kind permission of Ride UK.   Nobody really likes public transport. We would all rather drive ourselves to our destination. Door to door with our own timetable and agenda. Unfortunately there is a flip side to this. I am not talking about […]
  Bottom Bracket Compendium*This article first appeared in Ride UK (#77) and is reproduced here by kind permission of Ride UK. You may remember that 2 years ago in issue 58 I wrote about the new Euro Bottom brackets that were starting to pop up on some frames. I also predicted that there would be some other new […]
  Steering Geometry*This article first appeared in Ride UK (#76) and is reproduced here by kind permission of Ride UK. Someone requested that I do a tech column on head angles and steering geometry. I wasn’t sure at first if this was a worthwhile subject, after all, there isn’t that much variation available is there? Most frames […]
  Three Piece Crank Fitting*This article first appeared in Ride UK (#75) and is reproduced here by kind permission of Ride UK. Once again I find myself sitting in front of the computer wondering how to start my tech column. Every few seconds I turn my head to look out the window for inspiration… or is it distraction.
  They’re playing R-Tune… (groan)*This article first appeared in Ride UK (#74) and is reproduced here by kind permission of Ride UK. The progress of civilisation is based upon one thing above all others, Albert Einstein put it very well when he said that “If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the […]
  Headsets*This article first appeared in Ride UK (#66) and is reproduced here by kind permission of Ride UK. A BMX, like any other bicycle, has two wheels. You sit in-between them and point the front one the way you want to go. All the time that you are sitting (or standing) on it you are […]
  Super Small Gearing*This article first appeared in Ride UK(#67) and is reproduced here by kind permission of Ride UK. Gearing (again). Well it’s been nearly a year since the first article I wrote on gearing and a lot has happened since then. Everything that the previous article covered still holds true and I wont be going over the […]
  Brakes*This article first appeared in Ride UK (#65) and is reproduced here by kind permission of Ride UK. Well it seems winter is here. It hasn’t dried up properly in weeks, and with only 25 minutes of daylight a day its unlikely to dry up anytime soon.