Ok, so with the rather less than shiny new purchase clamped into the work stand it was time to assess exactly what I had here - was it the bargain of the century or a total disaster of a money pit which was going to cost me far to much to fix? The truth as …
Tag: Bike maintenance
Yes, I’ve bought another melon off eBay…..
It would seem I simply just can't help myself. Literally as soon as I've got a little bit of spare cash I'm straight on the internet looking for another 'bargain' buy that I just have to impulsively purchase straight away. You see after the great mountain bike swapathon a few months back when the dust …
Spring Tune-Up: Rebuilding My Old Road Bike
Way back last October when I was waxing lyrically about how buying the new Zwift Ride indoor trainer was going to revolutionise my winter training I mentioned that one of the side benefits was going to be taking the chance over the winter off season finally tackle the long overdue rebuild of my Sabbath Silk …
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Oops I did it again ……
Boredom and Facebook marketplace are dangerous bed fellows. One minute your idly scrolling through the seemingly endless adverts for tools that look like they've been stolen out of the back of some poor sod's work van interspersed with pictures of furniture from the house that taste forgot , and then you see it - the …
When a relationship breaks down – Falling out of love with your bike :-(
There often comes a tipping point in our relationships. Sometimes you just know deep down that things just haven't been right between you for awhile, and then it just takes a little nudge to plunge that interpersonal dynamic in full blown crisis mode. Questions abound, chasing each other around in an endless and remorseless loop …
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The Three Part Plan for Mountain BikingMediocrity Part One
Just a quick recap if you didn’t catch the last but one-ish post and hence aren’t already teetering on the edge of your seat waiting for this one …. Basically I rode my MTB, the bike was rubbish, I was rubbish and I fell off. So what am I going to be doing about this …
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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 …
Winter Bike Part 2 – it’s not easy being retro ……
The hoods of torture So, as detailed in the previous post my eBay Winter Bike project had had a pretty strong start. My bargain 1990’s Dawes Galaxy had been treated to a complete drivetrain refresh for less than the cost of a contemporary rear cassette, and I’d even found some less offensive bar tape to …
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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 Declining Cyclist 