By If you missed the build post I did of this bike, then never mind, because you can read it after this one through the link at the bottom. SCENE SETTER: The Stooge Speedbomb emerges from its shed and into a bright July morning. This is the first, post-build ride, and
The Stooge Speedbomb
Bizarrely, I first heard about Stooge Cycles, who are based in Oswestry in the UK, when I interviewed USA MTB legend, Charlie Kelly. Even though I’d lived within a 30 minute drive from Stooge HQ, I’d missed it somehow. Charlie had visited Stooge Cycles on a previous UK visit because
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 ‘one-ride-stand’ kind of experience, and therefore, the subject deserves writing about. So here goes…….in 1974, there was a swashbuckling film
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
Mirror, mirror, on the wall, am I really a Cilo Cycles collector🤔?
Looking into the ‘honesty mirror’ on the wall, I ask myself if I’m a Cilo Cycles collector. The mirror says ‘quite possibly’. Hmmmm……..I challenge the mirror with the definition of ‘a collector’. Apparently, and according to the mirror’s friend, Google search, a collector is “A person who collects things of
S’Bike Prototypes & electric S’Bikes. Really?
I wrote a post back in April 2021 (link at bottom of page) about my journey unearthing what is believed to be a very interesting S’Bike story. Contentious it may be, but regardless, I seem to have found a (possibly) strong, historical S’Bike thread. Whilst mountain biking is a fairly
The vintage bicycle market is DEAD! Long LIVE the vintage bicycle market!
Like a lot of people who are passionate about ‘vintage stuff’, I’ve been playing in the ‘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
Cilo Cycles – The Factory in Lausanne
Of all of my content on this site, the most read on a daily basis, and from people from all over the world, is the stuff I’ve written about Cilo Cycles. I get regular emails or messages through social media from people in all time zones asking me questions about
Night ride ‘MOMENTS’
Definition of the word ‘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
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,