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By mrfergieman December 4, 2020January 16, 2022 Cilo Cycles

ATZ forks for my Swiss Cilo Mountainbike

Without getting too scientific, which would push the boundaries of my own physics and chemistry knowledge quite quickly, an elastomer is a type of polymeric material that can be repeatedly stretched beyond its original length with little or no permanent deformation. It can also be compressed repeatedly and still return

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By mrfergieman November 1, 2020January 14, 2022 Cilo Cycles

Cilo Mountain bikes and bears?

I’m riding up a tiny, Swiss road that has 27% gradient and it keeps going up at this rate for 3 kilometres. For a couple of months of the year, it’s impassable due to snow. It’s only a very narrow road with rough tarmac and it’s not used enough for

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By mrfergieman August 14, 2020January 14, 2022 Cilo Cycles

A big white Yorkshire horse and a Swiss Cilo horse

I’m currently in North Yorkshire, UK, and I have for sale on my eBay site, two vintage Cilo road bikes. The slightly higher specification of the two is a Columbus framed, Cilo Challenger. It is priced very competitively for a bike of its age, condition and specification. I’m obviously interested

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By mrfergieman June 9, 2020January 14, 2022 Cilo Cycles

When Cool becomes Cilo Cool

Have you noticed how some things are cool straight out of the box and others gain coolness over time? More importantly, cool doesn’t have to be proven because it’s gained global recognition. Cool is a social perception and not an inherent quality. A Cool thing is much more than just

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By mrfergieman June 1, 2020January 14, 2022 Cilo Cycles

The 1981 Cilo (alternative?) road test and review

All bicycle road test and reviews are stereotypically the same, and have been since Robert (known as Bob from here on) Lillywand, first thought of a new and innovative way to market and sell his bikes back in 1807. Bob reckoned that by using the village’s local key opinion leader,

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By mrfergieman April 7, 2019January 14, 2022 Cilo Cycles

Cilo – The opportunities and pitfalls of re-launching a brand

A number of readers have noticed that the Swiss bicycle brand of Cilo has been re-launched, and its prompted me, whilst being inspired by watching the Alabama Shakes message their brand https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sNNTpORtDQ to take a look at some brands that have gone through a similar re-vitalisation. Firstly, you don’t need

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By mrfergieman October 27, 2018April 9, 2022 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 mrfergieman July 2, 2018January 14, 2022 Cilo Cycles

The story of the Swiss Cilo bicycle company

In the 20th century, it is estimated that Switzerland was home to 200-300 bicycle brands, and the national Helvetia Bicycle Museum is in Brügg, near Biel, in the Canton Bern. With 16 manufacturers in the town, Biel was the Swiss bike capital. The top Swiss brands like Tebag, Staco, Cilo,

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By mrfergieman June 14, 2022June 27, 2022 MTB

My cycling event criteria AND why I chose to do the 2022 Yorkshire Mountain Bike Marathon.

Talk to anyone about any cycling course that they’ve ridden in an event and ask them ‘what it was like?’ and they’ll say things like; it was really slippery, it was really stoney, it was really technical, it was really hilly, it was really flat, the toilet facilities were crap,

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