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By mrfergieman 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 mrfergieman 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 mrfergieman 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 mrfergieman February 13, 2021February 13, 2021 Interesting Interviews

The Interesting Interview series – No.3: Charlie Kelly

My first meeting ever with the legend and top bloke that is Charlie Kelly was virtual, and sees him sitting in his computer chair, headset on and wearing a black Steve Peat ‘Won’t Back Down’ T-shirt. He stares at me through shiny eyes and tells me to get the first

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By mrfergieman February 7, 2021February 7, 2021 MTB

Kash for Klunkers

I was listening to a track by the rock band, The Yidz, called Kash for Klunkers. The title of the track (marked E for Explicit by the way) appealed to me, because the term ‘Klunker’ is used to describe an iconic part of mountain biking history. More of this later

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By mrfergieman November 1, 2020January 14, 2022 Cilo Cycles

Cilo Mountain bikes and bears?

I’m riding up a tiny, Swiss road that has 27% gradient and it keeps going up at this rate for 3 kilometres. For a couple of months of the year, it’s impassable due to snow. It’s only a very narrow road with rough tarmac and it’s not used enough for

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By mrfergieman September 14, 2020January 19, 2022 Cannondale

The Beach. On Any Sunday.

There’s a certain sense of freedom on a beach. It’s locked like a border between the land and the powerful sea. The beach can provide tranquility, interest in washed-up sea shells, dead fish, international litter and wood that has travelled the oceans, only to be finally deposited with a smooth,

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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 April 26, 2020January 19, 2022 Cannondale

It’s the best thing since sliced bread! Really?

One of the very well used sayings that was quoted when I was a kid was ‘it’s the best thing since sliced bread!’, and it was always in reference to a new innovation or product. The first automatically sliced commercial bread loaves were produced on July 6, 1928, in Chillicothe,

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By mrfergieman March 5, 2020January 19, 2022 Cannondale

Punk Maskara IV – The Swiss Spring Classic race

Cast your mind back through all of the cycling events that you have ever ridden in, and then pick the best one. Why did you pick this particular one? Because you won it? Because you did it with friends? Because the weather was good and the scenery spectacular? Because you

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