Bike Tart Advent Calendar – 9th Dec
Chris King salt & pepper shakers. Just lovely. A must have for any bike geek. Well, the single ones and those with an understanding other half that is…
Bike Tart Advent Calendar – 4th Dec
Phil Wood bottom bracket. Hubba hubba. It’s an early one today because I’m moving house, but such is my dedication to bike bling I had to get this in… Chris King BBs are lush, of that there’s no denying. But if I was buying an external bearing BB now I think this example from Phil … Read more
Bike Tart Advent Calendar – 1st Dec
They might be a pain in the ass to get tight, and even worse to loosen once you’ve done them up – regardless, there’s no beating a bit of bling as far as your skewers go, and there’s few bling skewers that look as nice as these from Tune: Happy December folks!
Gotta Love This…
Paul Component rear derailleur from the mid-’90s: Pair it with a Chris King ‘rasta’ headset for the ultimate in bike filth…!
Eurobike – Finally…
So, finally something genuinely interesting and actually quite innovative arrives amongst the stacks of Eurobike pics currently swamping the browsers, twitter feeds and Facebook pages of cycling fans around the world… I present to you, the Hope integrated cassette and freehub: Frankly, genius. Well, if you run Hope hubs that is. But I bet it … Read more
Lugs To Lightweights – Episode 4: Game Changer?
I don’t need to tell anyone reading this that I’d kind of settled on Pegoretti for my dream build, and may still be the case… but sometimes something comes along that makes you sit up and take notice. Like really take notice… Step up Ricky Feather of Feather Cycles: Nice huh? I’ve always been keen to work … Read more
Lugs To Lightweights – Episode 3: Tangent
I’m in Kamikaze mode again – “off on one” some might say… First things first, ‘dream bike’ will still happen. However, as I have been reminded a couple of times in the last week my back still needs some time to get sorted – I reckon it’ll be next year before I do ride longer … Read more
Lugs To Lightweights – Episode 2
Episode 2 will be short and sweet – partly because I’m on holiday typing this from my iPad whilst Wendy is in the shower, partly because it just doesn’t need to be long. Look at this: Just one of many reasons I’ve spent the last couple of weeks lusting over Pegorettis. Regardless of material, I … Read more
