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By Guy Redshaw December 8, 2021December 8, 2021 eBike/MTB

To stud or not to stud. This is THE winter tyre question!

I bought my first pair of studded tyres about two years ago, and specifically for use on my eMTB. The grip in the Swiss winter snow, and particularly the fully iced roads was immense, and big smile inducing. These particular tyres, made by Schwalbe and called the Ice Spiker Pro

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By Guy Redshaw September 30, 2021October 1, 2021 eBike/Just bike stuff/Road bikes

The Old and the New: A tale of two Swiss Mountain Passes??

On the language border of the French and Swiss-German speaking Swiss communities, there’s a village that sits on the French speaking side called Jaun, and where everyone speaks German as a primary language. Jaun is the Swiss-German name for the village, and Bellegarde is its French name. Confusing I know.

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By Guy Redshaw June 24, 2021June 24, 2021 eBike/Just bike stuff/MTB

Technique is everything

Our garden in Switzerland is mostly grass and trees, and is on about a 45 degree slope. We manage it quite naturally, and just like most of the Swiss farmers manage their mountain meadows. This means that we just let the grass and wild flowers grow until about mid-June and

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By Guy Redshaw June 9, 2021June 9, 2021 eBike/Just bike stuff

The Golden Age of……..

How many times have you heard someone claim that a certain thing or subject was indeed, the Golden Age of…..etc etc? I heard it said the other day. Someone was referring to the golden age of music when the recording of music in studios was on magnetic tape. He went

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By Guy Redshaw May 12, 2021May 12, 2021 eBike

The road to somewhere new……??

Ever heard the music track ‘Road to Nowhere’ by the band, Talking Heads? If not, you should. If you have, listen to it again. It’s a tenuous music link to the subject of this post, which involves 2 ebikes and 3 friends. However, I have an announcement to make first.

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By Guy Redshaw May 19, 2019December 29, 2020 eBike

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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