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By mrfergieman July 16, 2020December 29, 2020 Just bike stuff

Life as a Projecteer

I must admit that I’m a bit of a ‘Projecteer’. This is a new term that I’ve dreamed up to illustrate people like me who always have a project on the go, have a few in the pipeline and at the same time, on the look out for another suitable

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By mrfergieman February 22, 2020December 29, 2020 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 mrfergieman November 3, 2019December 29, 2020 MTB

The Arizona MTB interview

Interviewer = You, whoever you are Interviewee = Me, the Author You: What’s occurring/happening/going on then? Me: I’ve recently bought a 2007 Cannondale Prophet mountain bike for $300 on Craigslist in Phoenix, Arizona. You: WTF! Isn’t that a long way from home? On a different continent even? How the hell

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By mrfergieman September 1, 2019December 29, 2020 MTB

Cannondale: Super-V Ready! Introducing (another) new, inclusive and cultural trend.

For those of you familiar with the KTM motorcycle company’s brand identity “Ready to Race”, I’m going to follow a similar theme regarding the iconic Cannondale mountain bike, the Super V. I can only assume that the bike got this name due to the V shape of the frame, although

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By mrfergieman 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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By mrfergieman June 23, 2019December 29, 2020 MTB

1991, Scott mountain bikes, and cake!

In an attempt to make a short story long, a  scene setter journey back into 1991 is required first. Whether you were old enough to remember 1991 or if you arrived on the planet after, here’s a summary;  The Gulf War kicked off, the dissolution of the Soviet Union took

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By mrfergieman May 19, 2019December 29, 2020 eBike

The e-bridge between motorcycle-land and cycling-land, and with a soundtrack.

All of the two wheeled objects in the picture above have a number of things in common. Firstly, all of them have the primary capability to take on various levels of off-road fun, as well as being used on tarmac. Some of them are quite specialised. Some of them are

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By mrfergieman July 6, 2018December 29, 2020 Road bikes

I’ll never be good enough to pay the mortgage with my time trialling results, but that’s not the point is it?…..

Its 17:45, I look across the production lines over to my mate and then gesture with my head and eyes towards the door “let’s go”. We change out of our work kit and both briskly walk down the roadway between the two big production plants to our cars in the

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