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By Guy Redshaw 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 Guy Redshaw 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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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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Diary of a Cycling Nobody
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