Tag Archives: bicycle

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Project: Whyte #1

I picked up my new Whyte 19CS last week and have only just got around to taking some photographs of what is undeniably a beautiful bicycle. I’ve not had a super light hardtail for years. The last such racy machine I owned (a Marin Indian Fire Trail) got pinched in London at the end of [...]

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Competition get none…

The last competitive biking event I did was (I think) the Dusk till Dawn 12hr enduro at Bedgebury in September 2009. I didn’t actually do too badly, especially considering that I’d been out of action for most of the summer thanks to a broken hand, sustained downhilling at Cannock. Not only that – most of [...]

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Back to school

Having just bought a flash new mountain bike and having also spent what seems like half the winter researching and comparing fancy pants bicycle components, I am hardly qualified to rant about the relative value (or lack of it) of such expensive and technologically wunderbar equipment. But rant I will. There is an obscene amount [...]