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By Guy Redshaw October 28, 2018December 29, 2020 Just bike stuff

Our kids will enjoy cycling!…….and words that begin with an ‘e’…….

As the only one in the family who is ‘into cycling’, it is my ultimate responsibility to be the cycling-ambassador, and to expose, educate, encourage and entice (all words spookily beginning with ‘e’) the kids to the fresh air delights of enjoying (another word beginning with ‘e’) the worlds most

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By Guy Redshaw October 27, 2018February 5, 2023 Cilo Cycles

More about Swiss Cilo cycles & their owners

In the early-ish days of club and national cycle racing, like the 1940s and 50s for example, riders had one bike, which they rode to races, and possibly, if they were good riders, he/she would have a second set of lighter wheels that they would use for the race, then

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By Guy Redshaw October 11, 2018December 29, 2020 Road bikes

“I want to ride my bicycle” – The ‘make-it-yourself’ Time Trial bike – Part 2a.

Welcome to Part 2a (which you may read before Part 1) to my TT bike build. It’s taken a bit longer than I anticipated to build the bike, which shouldn’t normally take more than a day to go from ‘parts-to-ride’, but instead, it has taken 3 months, to date. This

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By Guy Redshaw October 7, 2018December 29, 2020 Just bike stuff

Rant! Part 2 & last weekend’s bike ride

Sometime ago, I wrote a piece on this site, called ‘Rant!’, which was about the differences found in the cycling world between men and women, and particularly in the range of clothing, equipment, bikes, and equality in cycling sport. Since I wrote it, it is now my view that things

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