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By Guy Redshaw January 6, 2023January 6, 2023 Cannondale/Just bike stuff

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

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By Guy Redshaw November 30, 2022December 2, 2022 Just bike stuff

The vintage bicycle market is DEAD! Long LIVE the vintage bicycle market!

Like a lot of people who are passionate about ā€˜vintage stuff’, I’ve been playing in the ā€˜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

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By Guy Redshaw September 19, 2022September 19, 2022 Just bike stuff

Night ride ā€˜MOMENTS’

Definition of the word ā€˜Moment’: A very brief period of time OR if you’re into physics, it is a mathematical expression involving the product of a distance and physical quantity. Now we’ve got this definition out of the way, let me explain the relevance and context. I’ve got some MTB

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By Guy Redshaw April 30, 2022April 30, 2022 Just bike stuff

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 hadn’t 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

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By Guy Redshaw December 29, 2021December 29, 2021 Just bike stuff

Introducing the Workshop – Part 1

Every Projecteer has to have a shed or space or workshop, right? Of course! I’m no different to any other Projecteer, and I include my wife in this category as she’s got her own workshop as well. In fact, both of our workshops are connected by the overall structure of

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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 August 21, 2021January 14, 2022 Just bike stuff

ā€œYou’re on mute!ā€ & ā€œCan 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, it’s funny how these two phrases in the title to this post have become so well used in such a short time. There’s nothing more annoying than responding to a question or in providing a

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By Guy Redshaw July 28, 2021January 14, 2022 Just bike stuff

Just like a YouTube video, but not?

Welcome to my first non-YouTube-video? Whilst this blog is going well with good reader feedback, I’ve been considering complementing it with a YouTube channel, partly because it brings a different energy to what I’m doing and creating, and partly because I’ve been inspired by many of those people already doing

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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 January 8, 2023January 8, 2023 MTB

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 ā€˜one-ride-stand’ kind of experience, and therefore, the subject deserves writing about. So here goes…….in 1974, there was a swashbuckling film

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