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Welcome to my Christmas & New Year Pop-up Shop

Dear reader, I hope you have a great, relaxing, cycling or Moto themed Christmas and New Year, whilst making loads of 2020 cycling and motorcycling plans. I know I willđŸ»đŸ‘!Below is a selection of stuff that I have in this

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Frankie Says Relax

You may or may not remember (and guess the year) when the top Liverpool band, FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD, knocked out that great track, Relax. I never owned one of those t-shirts that boldly said, ‘Frankie says Relax’, but it

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The case for The Special Tool

Special tools are designed to do one thing, really well.  How many special tools do you have in your toolbox?  How much have you spent on special tools that you’ve only ever used once, or twice or....? How many times

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The fascinating world and psychology of ‘The bicycle Collector’

A common dictionary definition of the word “collector’” is; a person who collects things of a specified type, professionally or as a hobby. This is obviously a broad definition, and after looking around my bike shed, and after a quick

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The Arizona MTB interview

Interviewer = You, whoever you are Interviewee = Me, the Author You: What’s occurring/happening/going on then? Me: I’ve recently bought a 2007 Cannondale Prophet mountain bike for $300 on Craigslist in Phoenix, Arizona. You: WTF! Isn’t that a long way

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Cannondale: Super-V Ready! Introducing (another) new, inclusive and cultural trend.

For those of you familiar with the KTM motorcycle company's brand identity "Ready to Race", I'm going to follow a similar theme regarding the iconic Cannondale mountain bike, the Super V. I can only assume that the bike got this

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By mrfergieman December 1, 2019December 2, 2019

Welcome to my Christmas & New Year Pop-up Shop

Dear reader, I hope you have a great, relaxing, cycling or Moto themed Christmas and New Year, whilst making loads of 2020 cycling and motorcycling plans. I know I willđŸ»đŸ‘!Below is a selection of stuff that I have in this one-off seasonal, pop-up shop. All bikes (Cycles and motos) are

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By mrfergieman November 30, 2019December 1, 2019

Frankie Says Relax

You may or may not remember (and guess the year) when the top Liverpool band, FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD, knocked out that great track, Relax. I never owned one of those t-shirts that boldly said, ‘Frankie says Relax’, but it felt like I was the in the minority at the

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By mrfergieman November 23, 2019November 23, 2019

The case for The Special Tool

Special tools are designed to do one thing, really well.  How many special tools do you have in your toolbox?  How much have you spent on special tools that you’ve only ever used once, or twice or….? How many times have you not used the correct special tool on a

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By mrfergieman November 16, 2019

The fascinating world and psychology of ‘The bicycle Collector’

A common dictionary definition of the word “collector’” is; a person who collects things of a specified type, professionally or as a hobby. This is obviously a broad definition, and after looking around my bike shed, and after a quick look in the mirror to see if I looked like

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By mrfergieman November 3, 2019November 30, 2019

The Arizona MTB interview

Interviewer = You, whoever you are Interviewee = Me, the Author You: What’s occurring/happening/going on then? Me: I’ve recently bought a 2007 Cannondale Prophet mountain bike for $300 on Craigslist in Phoenix, Arizona. You: WTF! Isn’t that a long way from home? On a different continent even? How the hell

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By mrfergieman September 1, 2019

Cannondale: Super-V Ready! Introducing (another) new, inclusive and cultural trend.

For those of you familiar with the KTM motorcycle company’s brand identity “Ready to Race”, I’m going to follow a similar theme regarding the iconic Cannondale mountain bike, the Super V. I can only assume that the bike got this name due to the V shape of the frame, although

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By mrfergieman August 8, 2019August 9, 2019

Cycling Brand belonging, our unconscious biases and the answer to; Has the drinks stereotype been finally smashed?

I’m going to test your cycling-related unconscious bias now, so get ready. If this is the first time you’ve read something from this site, you’ll already have created a fast image in your mind of what type of person I am, what car I drive, what food I eat etc

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By mrfergieman July 6, 2019July 7, 2019

The future of vintage bicycle sales and a spoof ‘Back to Black’ 1990s MTB review

Total new bicycle sales are increasing every year and in 2018, global sales were approximately $50bn, and the forecast for 2025 shows sales hitting $75.5bn. In addition, and over the last few years, about 100 million bikes have been produced every year. This means that there are a quite a

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By mrfergieman June 23, 2019December 3, 2019

1991, Scott mountain bikes, and cake!

In an attempt to make a short story long, a  scene setter journey back into 1991 is required first. Whether you were old enough to remember 1991 or if you arrived on the planet after, here’s a summary;  The Gulf War kicked off, the dissolution of the Soviet Union took

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By mrfergieman May 19, 2019May 19, 2019

The e-bridge between motorcycle-land and cycling-land, and with a soundtrack.

All of the two wheeled objects in the picture above have a number of things in common. Firstly, all of them have the primary capability to take on various levels of off-road fun, as well as being used on tarmac. Some of them are quite specialised. Some of them are

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By mrfergieman December 1, 2019December 2, 2019

Welcome to my Christmas & New Year Pop-up Shop

Dear reader, I hope you have a great, relaxing, cycling or Moto themed Christmas and New Year, whilst making loads of 2020 cycling and motorcycling plans. I know I willđŸ»đŸ‘!Below is a selection of stuff that I have in this one-off seasonal, pop-up shop. All bikes (Cycles and motos) are

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The case for The Special Tool

The fascinating world and psychology of ‘The bicycle Collector’

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