By As someone who scores highly on the ‘Vintage-bike-ometer’, and specifically, but not exclusively Cannondales, I’m always on the look out to enhance the bikes that I have, and without compromising their place in bicycle design history and evolution. At the other end to the bicycle spectrum, I also like latest
Stoogeness Abound, on the trails and now on YouTube
Stoogeness Abound is a term I’m using to describe the rides I have on my new Stooge Speedbomb. In addition, I reckon my new term also sounds like the name of a weird rock group, and taking a slight Stooge-type-detour in this post, this is how I imagine the band,
Stooge Speedbomb: THE FIRST RIDE
If you missed the build post I did of this bike, then never mind, because you can read it after this one through the link at the bottom. SCENE SETTER: The Stooge Speedbomb emerges from its shed and into a bright July morning. This is the first, post-build ride, and
The Stooge Speedbomb
Bizarrely, I first heard about Stooge Cycles, who are based in Oswestry in the UK, when I interviewed USA MTB legend, Charlie Kelly. Even though I’d lived within a 30 minute drive from Stooge HQ, I’d missed it somehow. Charlie had visited Stooge Cycles on a previous UK visit because
The Four Musketeers
After 6 months of riding with The Four Musketeers, of which I am one of them now, it looks like the relationship is a longer term thing rather than a ‘one-ride-stand’ kind of experience, and therefore, the subject deserves writing about. So here goes…….in 1974, there was a swashbuckling film
Innovation for vintage bikes: The Dropper Post
Here’s some questions to start this post off with some audience (you) participation: 1. Ever gone over the handlebars on a steep-ish descent because that fixed, high saddle behind you pushed you over (on purpose🤬!)? 2. Having trouble getting your leg over (a high saddle😬)? 3. Have you ever caught
Mirror, mirror, on the wall, am I really a Cilo Cycles collector🤔?
Looking into the ‘honesty mirror’ on the wall, I ask myself if I’m a Cilo Cycles collector. The mirror says ‘quite possibly’. Hmmmm……..I challenge the mirror with the definition of ‘a collector’. Apparently, and according to the mirror’s friend, Google search, a collector is “A person who collects things of
S’Bike Prototypes & electric S’Bikes. Really?
I wrote a post back in April 2021 (link at bottom of page) about my journey unearthing what is believed to be a very interesting S’Bike story. Contentious it may be, but regardless, I seem to have found a (possibly) strong, historical S’Bike thread. Whilst mountain biking is a fairly
The vintage bicycle market is DEAD! Long LIVE the vintage bicycle market!
Like a lot of people who are passionate about ‘vintage stuff’, I’ve been playing in the ‘vintage velo and Moto markets’ for quite some years as a buyer-seller-hobbyist-projecteer. This means, like a lot of people, and maybe you, I’ve had tremendous fun restoring, and riding, and selling, and buying vintage
Cilo Cycles – The Factory in Lausanne
Of all of my content on this site, the most read on a daily basis, and from people from all over the world, is the stuff I’ve written about Cilo Cycles. I get regular emails or messages through social media from people in all time zones asking me questions about