By Hereās 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 purposeš¤¬!)? 2. Having trouble getting your leg over (a high saddleš¬)? 3. Have you ever caught
The vintage bicycle market is DEAD! Long LIVE the vintage bicycle market!
Like a lot of people who are passionate about āvintage stuffā, Iāve been playing in the āvintage velo and Moto marketsā for quite some years as a buyer-seller-hobbyist-projecteer. This means, like a lot of people, and maybe you, Iāve had tremendous fun restoring, and riding, and selling, and buying vintage
Night ride āMOMENTSā
Definition of the word āMomentā: A very brief period of time OR if youāre into physics, it is a mathematical expression involving the product of a distance and physical quantity. Now weāve got this definition out of the way, let me explain the relevance and context. Iāve got some MTB
The first ever ‘Retro-Bike Undergound’Ā
So, what is/was Retro-Bike Underground? In a small North Yorkshire village hall in the UK, a group of like-minded cycling aficionados, who mostly hadnāt ever met before, came together one April evening to share their story about a specific bike that they had brought along. Each person had time to
Introducing the Workshop – Part 1
Every Projecteer has to have a shed or space or workshop, right? Of course! Iām no different to any other Projecteer, and I include my wife in this category as sheās got her own workshop as well. In fact, both of our workshops are connected by the overall structure of
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, thereās 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.
āYouāre on mute!ā & āCan you see my screen?ā & a free high performing recipe?
For those of us who have been working from home during the past 18 months, itās funny how these two phrases in the title to this post have become so well used in such a short time. Thereās nothing more annoying than responding to a question or in providing a
Just like a YouTube video, but not?
Welcome to my first non-YouTube-video? Whilst this blog is going well with good reader feedback, Iāve been considering complementing it with a YouTube channel, partly because it brings a different energy to what Iām doing and creating, and partly because Iāve been inspired by many of those people already doing
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
The Golden Age ofā¦ā¦..
How many times have you heard someone claim that a certain thing or subject was indeed, the Golden Age ofā¦..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
