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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

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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

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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

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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)

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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

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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

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By Guy Redshaw May 23, 2021June 5, 2021 Road bikes

Epic! The Helvetic Phoebus Mutaped

It’s weird how things happen in a sequence and seemingly unconnected, until one thing joins them all up. In this case, the ‘one thing’ is a catalogue from a Swiss company long since gone. My friend Stefan, who you made have read about before (see links at bottom of page),

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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 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 20, 2021April 24, 2021 Just bike stuff

Hindsight??

When I was a kid, teeth cleaning technique meant putting toothpaste on your brush and then vigorously brushing in an ‘up and down’ direction. Doing this correctly meant ‘no fillings and other work’ to be done at the dentist, which was never somewhere I ever wanted to visit in case

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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 26, 2021April 2, 2021 Interesting Interviews

The Interesting Interview Series – No.7: Mick Ely

This series of interviews continues at pace, and not by design either. I just keep coming across interesting people, fortunately. This interview certainly continues the ‘Interesting’ thread. After previous interview mentions of the Rough-Stuff Fellowship (RSF), which is the oldest off-road cycling club in the world, I thought I would

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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 March 20, 2021April 30, 2022 Interesting Interviews

The Interesting Interview Series – No.6: Stumpy

To date, the Interesting Interview Series has focussed on people and their lives. This interview is with a bike. All used bikes have good stories to tell, but they are never given the chance to get their adventures into print, so this could be a world first (maybe). The Specialized

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By Guy Redshaw March 18, 2021March 19, 2021 Interesting Interviews

The Interesting Interview Series – No.5: Jacquie Phelan

Welcome to ‘Interesting Interview’ No: 5 with some passionate and transparent words and thoughts of THE mountain biking legend, Jacquie Phelan. Our cycling and MTB industry continues to develop technologically and culturally at pace, and it is really important to understand where it all came from, and particularly from the pioneers that

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By Guy Redshaw March 14, 2021March 15, 2021 Just bike stuff

Once a bedroom wall decorator, always a wall decorator?

Apparently, kids don’t put posters on their walls anymore. In fact, postering up your bedroom wall has been on the decline since we hit this century and today, it is only the few (about 7% of girls and 12% of boys) that actually get their super heroes stuck or taped

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