August it turned out was a bumper month for riding - indoors and out, on and off road, I managed to twiddle my cranks through the full range of cycling experiences ...... oh, and I've bought another bike sight unseen off eBay again! First as always the stats. The total distance ridden was a pretty …
Tag: Bike Building
All Change On The MTB Front
I'll cut right to the chase, I've replaced my full suspension Mountain Bike with a new ride. Well......I say new but it’s actually older than the bike it replaces, it's certainly had a much harder life and the specification is broadly the same. The path to getting it into my possession and ready to ride …
The Moulton Mini – eBay strikes again….
So..... I've bought another project bike I really most certainly do not need. It's old, quite impractical, British, quirky as hell, doesn't really meet the specific need I tried to justify its purchase with ...... and it's cost me far to much money. It is however an absolute hoot to ride and that makes its …
New bike, new fears ……
The basis for riding heaven? So, for those that read my last missive, here is the result of much internet auction site searching in my quest to replicate the unobtainable Santa Cruz dream machine that realigned my Mountain biking expectations last time out. It’s a 2019 Cotic Rocket frameset and this will be the basis …
The Pearl Beyond Price. A Mountain biking Parable For Our Times.
One of the perhaps lesser known Biblical parables is the story of the Merchant and the Pearl often known as The Parable of the pearl beyond price. To heavily paraphrase the verses basically a rich Merchant see’s a beautiful gigantic pearl and is so consumed with the need to possess it he sells everything else …
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The Hopeless Quest for Cycling Nirvana via eBay and Mindless Optimism
Theres a well-known cycling adage that the formula for the perfect number of bikes for a cyclist to own is n+1 where 'n' equals the number of bikes a rider owns at any given time. The implication that a true cyclist is always thinking about the next bike they're going to buy as they toil …
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The Declining Cyclist 