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By Guy Redshaw May 2, 2021May 2, 2021 Just bike stuff/MTB

Ducati

In addition to usual cycling brands, a lot of car companies have dipped their toes into the bicycle world. I assume this is to connect the car brand with a lifestyle of health, leisure, fitness and sport. Some also get their engineers to apply car developed technology to cycles. It

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By Guy Redshaw April 14, 2021April 14, 2021 MTB

S’Bike Prototype – More research required……

Last November, I nailed a post to this site under the title ‘Rapid Prototype’. I had obtained an unknown frame from a friend who featured in ‘Interesting Interview No.1 – Terrance Malone’, and this special frame had no markings, serial number, or provenance. It gave some clues to it’s heritage

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By Guy Redshaw March 25, 2021March 25, 2021 MTB

More great MTB product testing?

Sometimes, there are contradictions and tensions in the message when talking about ‘new innovation’ and ‘heritage’ in the same sentence, unless you are a marketeer and you use heritage as ‘the hook’ for selling a new innovation. I’m using the two separately in this post, but both will be complimentary

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By Guy Redshaw February 7, 2021February 7, 2021 MTB

Kash for Klunkers

I was listening to a track by the rock band, The Yidz, called Kash for Klunkers. The title of the track (marked E for Explicit by the way) appealed to me, because the term ‘Klunker’ is used to describe an iconic part of mountain biking history. More of this later

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By Guy Redshaw November 1, 2020December 29, 2020 MTB

Rapid Prototype

I think that the most exciting sounding jobs are those that are in the field of design and prototyping, which then (hopefully) realise an exciting and iconic product. In reality, most of these jobs are about failure, although with a fast learning curve. This is what I call ‘failing forward’,

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By Guy Redshaw May 23, 2020December 29, 2020 MTB

What’s for pudding Mum?……..Stone?

To the non-geologically minded like me, the big rock that my bike is leaning against in the feature photo looks like a big piece of broken concrete. It certainly looks like it is full of the usual concrete ingredients like stones, and gravel, and sand and whatever else gets thrown

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By Guy Redshaw March 19, 2020December 29, 2020 MTB

The Dracula ride and Friday 13th 2020

At the beginning of the year, I had decided to do a bike ride I’d often thought about, but hadn’t ever got round to doing anything about. The bike ride would be a coast ride, about 2 hours-ish in duration and would end up with a great meal with my

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By Guy Redshaw February 22, 2020January 19, 2022 MTB

Oh Marin!….”Where were you while we were getting high?”

When Oasis wrote the lyric back in 1996 which I’ve used in the title to this post, I’m sure it wasn’t related to a bicycle, and the 2009 Marin Rift Zone I’m referring to certainly isn’t the stellar explosion ‘Champagne Supernova’ that the song was about. Some say, rightly or

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By Guy Redshaw January 19, 2020December 29, 2020 MTB

Thunderbirds are Go!……..on ice tyres!

The first showing of the best all-time Sci-Fi TV programme (in my view), Thunderbirds, was in 1964, and the series ran up to 1966. Forget Star Wars, this was waaaaaaaay ahead of its time, and set 100 years later (2065-2067) than its production date. For young kids at the time,

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By Guy Redshaw July 6, 2019December 29, 2020 MTB

The future of vintage bicycle sales and a spoof ‘Back to Black’ 1990s MTB review

Total new bicycle sales are increasing every year and in 2018, global sales were approximately $50bn, and the forecast for 2025 shows sales hitting $75.5bn. In addition, and over the last few years, about 100 million bikes have been produced every year. This means that there are a quite a

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