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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 November 30, 2019December 29, 2020 Just bike stuff

Frankie Says Relax

You may or may not remember (and guess the year) when the top Liverpool band, FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD, knocked out that great track, Relax. I never owned one of those t-shirts that boldly said, ‘Frankie says Relax’, but it felt like I was the in the minority at the

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By Guy Redshaw 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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TAKK Adventurewear: A chance encounter on a mountain

Chance encounters between people have had a real influence on what has happened historically in the past, and it’s one thing that is guaranteed to continue to happen. I had a chance encounter recently. I was riding my ‘classic’ Cannondale Prophet recently along a trail of the South Mountain range,

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