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Worn Chain Rings and Worn Cassettes

How to spot when your chain, chainrings and cassettes need changing. It’s easy to take the approach to bike maintenance of riding the bike until it doesn’t work (in this case, chain starts slipping). Then try and fix it yourself  or take to shop. For my commuting bike, this is often my attitude. I often […]

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Cycling and Health Issues

Comment from Cycling and health ‘that’s a powerful argument for more cycling priority coming into transport policy. So why is it so hard to get authorities to take it seriously? I think health is primarily an individual issue. You have to be responsible for the health of your body – whatever government policy dictates. However, […]

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Eastpak Kruizer Velow Messenger Bag Review

A review of  the Eastpak Kruiser Messenger Bag. Usually, when commuting I use panniers. I don’t like cycling for long distances with a messenger bag. But, despite preferring panniers, I do often end up using a bag like this. So I was happy to test for the past few weeks. It fits around the body […]

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Tributes to Bradley Wiggins

I hope our French, Australian, Italian, Dutch readers will forgive this little post tour indulgence in Wiggins mania. I promise it won’t last much longer, though if Cavendish wins the Olympic road race… Bradley Wiggins on the podium. Bradley Wiggins. Photo credit ASO / Credit Press Sport The four jerseys – Peter Sagan (green / […]

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Copenhagen Cycling

  A cycle path well used. Not just a strip of paint, but separated from the road. It is said 35,000 cyclists daily use the Nørrebrogade in Copenhagen Copenhagen’s Super highway. The Birth of Copenhagen as a Cycling City Video about Copenhagen’s decision to pedestrians large parts of the city centre in 1962. The interviewer […]

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Box Hill Olympic Cycle Route

The mens and womens Olympic road races will be both be using Box hill as part of the Olympic road circuit. The men will climb box hill (Ziz Zag road) nine times, the women two times. It is a good hill climb 2.5Km, averaging 5%. It only climbs 125 metres, but after nine ascents it’s […]

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UK Cycling Becomes Mainstream

Yesterday, was a record day for numbers of visits to cyclinginfo.co.uk. The most popular keyword was not (as you might imagine) ‘Bradley Wiggins‘. No Bradley Wiggins was trumped by the even more popular keyword of ‘donkeys in the tour de France.’ 3,000 Km across the Alps, Pyrenees, and most of France – epic duels in […]

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Photos of Bradley Wiggins

Some photos of Bradley Wiggins from the Tour de France and other races. 2012 Tour De France Photo by: Petit Brun Bradley Wiggins in Yellow Photo by: Photo by: Petit Brun Close up of Wiggins in Yellow. Froome in front. Looks like Nibali on his wheel. A classic mountain stage situation. photo by Kriblack – […]

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Bradley Wiggins wins Tour de France 2012

As Bradley Wiggins was interviewed by the Champs Elysees after finally wining the great race, Ned Boulting commentated that Wiggins and his Team have set so many historical precedents in the past few week, he must be running out of suitable quotes. But, though Wiggins may be sometimes short with journalists, he never seems short […]

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A Float Day for Time Trials

Saturday involved two quite different time trials for me. First up was watching Bradley Wiggins power his way around Chartres, south of France; averaging 50 Kmph for the 53Km course; it was a show of power and convincingly demonstrated why Wiggins was a deserving wearer of the yellow jersey. It was a fitting finale to […]

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Donkeys in the Tour de France

As commentator SM says, one of the highlights of this year’s tour, behind Wiggins’ smile on stage 17, and Cavendish sprinting to stage 18.   Personally, I can’t wait for tour de France to come to Yorkshire. We can dress up the yellow jerseys in cows, sheep, whippets. But, I don’t think you can top […]

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