Most road bikes nowadays have a multitude of gears, and whilst every bike rider knows that their bike has gears, many are not quite sure how to actually use them. There are a few different types of popular gear systems and in terms of ease of use they can be ranked as follows : SRAM…
I like iPhones. I tried switching to a Samsung last year and it lasted about 3 weeks before I went back to an iPhone. Some things you just get used to and there is no getting away from it. Bike computers are like mobile phones and since I got my first Garmin 500 I have…
Nowadays road bikes come in all shapes and sizes. Giant were the first manufacturer to introduce sloping top tubes. Initially people thought they looked weird compared to the horizontal top tubed steel frames that everyone was used to. However nowadays the vast majority of road bikes have sloping top tubes, they are the norm and…
In January I happened to be staying in the same hotel as the Giant Alpecin team at their now infamous Calpe training camp. The riders and bikes took a severe battering in a very serious altercation with a car and I managed to get an up close look into the internals of Giants range topping…
Here is a glimpse of what you can expect to find at the this weeks Cycle Show UK Barry www.thecyclingblog.com
When you are young and in school and someone asks for a loan of your bike it is a daunting predicament to find yourself in. You don't want to appear mean, but your bike is your pride and joy, more important than your arm or leg. To just give it to someone else to make…
Today at Eurobike, BMC unveiled its concept bike with an internal gearbox. This futuristic looking machine may well be ahead of its time. But Colnago had a similar internal gearbox concept back in 1987 2014 BMC 1987 Colnago This bike weighed over 13kg. The BMC weighs just over half that. Bike technology is moving rapidly…
Very often when people are buying a new road bike for the first time they baulk at the suggestion of adding clipless pedals such as Look, Shimano, Speedplay, Time or any other variation. This may well be a mistake. The main concern they have is the perception that it will be more difficult to release…
