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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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By Guy Redshaw April 25, 2026April 26, 2026 Just bike stuff

Is Aerial Marketing dead?

The answer is; Definitely not! You are probably wondering how this subject remotely fits into the world of cycling, which is what this site is clearly all about, but bare with me on this and read on please. Firstly, let’s understand what I mean by aerial marketing. In its simplest

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Diary of a Cycling Nobody
Diary of a Cycling Nobody

Cycling Past & Present and Other Stuff

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