By Have you ever struggled to resist pressing that button even though you know something is going to go wrong? Humans press buttons every day, but buttons aren’t always easy to use, assess the outcome of, or understand the implications of. Also, when you’ve pressed the button and nothing has happened
The Dracula ride and Friday 13th 2020
At the beginning of the year, I had decided to do a bike ride I’d often thought about, but hadn’t ever got round to doing anything about. The bike ride would be a coast ride, about 2 hours-ish in duration and would end up with a great meal with my
Stickers or decals? Wire ties, cable ties, zip ties or tie wraps?
This might be a random post, but here goes anyway……. and I’ll deal with the stickers first. Do you have a fascination with the good old ‘sticker’? Where I come from, the classic self-adhesive label, which some argue, was invented in 1935 by a Mr R Stanton Avery, is called
Punk Maskara IV – The Swiss Spring Classic race
Cast your mind back through all of the cycling events that you have ever ridden in, and then pick the best one. Why did you pick this particular one? Because you won it? Because you did it with friends? Because the weather was good and the scenery spectacular? Because you
Oh Marin!….”Where were you while we were getting high?”
When Oasis wrote the lyric back in 1996 which I’ve used in the title to this post, I’m sure it wasn’t related to a bicycle, and the 2009 Marin Rift Zone I’m referring to certainly isn’t the stellar explosion ‘Champagne Supernova’ that the song was about. Some say, rightly or
The ‘Do-it-Yourself’ TT bike – The Final Part
As a follow-on to the two previous posts about this Time Trial (TT) bike build (if you haven’t read them before, you can check them out by just putting ‘Time Trial’ into the search bar), I can announce, that the last piece of the TT bike jigsaw has finally turned
The Carbon Raven
When did you last see or hear a Raven? I’m not talking about seeing or hearing the 1970s-80s British Heavy Metal band, Raven. This was the band set up by the two Gallagher brothers, and not Noel and Liam from Manchester, UK, who also started the globally successful band, Oasis,
Thunderbirds are Go!……..on ice tyres!
The first showing of the best all-time Sci-Fi TV programme (in my view), Thunderbirds, was in 1964, and the series ran up to 1966. Forget Star Wars, this was waaaaaaaay ahead of its time, and set 100 years later (2065-2067) than its production date. For young kids at the time,
Thinking in the dark is like thinking on a bike ride. It’s very powerful.
It might sound a bit mad writing a blog post in the dark on an iPad, but actually it’s not. Writing in the dark is like listening to music in the dark. You hear sounds in a music track that you would never hear if you were listening to it
Testing round, prototype, rubber products…..The RIDER T1
I wouldn’t be telling the utmost truth if I said that I get regular offers to go testing prototype mountain bike (MTB from now on) tyres. However, I have had just this type of offer recently. Whilst most MTB riders in Switzerland are ordering studded ice tyres or oiling their
