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By Guy Redshaw February 16, 2020December 29, 2020 Road bikes

The ‘Do-it-Yourself’ TT bike – The Final Part

As a follow-on to the two previous posts about this Time Trial (TT) bike build (if you haven’t read them before, you can check them out by just putting ‘Time Trial’ into the search bar), I can announce, that the last piece of the TT bike jigsaw has finally turned

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By Guy Redshaw October 11, 2018December 29, 2020 Road bikes

“I want to ride my bicycle” – The ‘make-it-yourself’ Time Trial bike – Part 2a.

Welcome to Part 2a (which you may read before Part 1) to my TT bike build. It’s taken a bit longer than I anticipated to build the bike, which shouldn’t normally take more than a day to go from ‘parts-to-ride’, but instead, it has taken 3 months, to date. This

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By Guy Redshaw July 28, 2018December 29, 2020 Road bikes

The ‘Make-it-Yourself’ Time Trial bike – Part 1

Question: Have you ever made a model kit by companies like Airfix, Revell, Tamiya, IKEA or followed a complicated knitting or crochet pattern? Well here’s the same make-it-yourself format, but applied to a Time Trial bike. Much, much more information, instructions, pictures and wait for it, a ROAD TEST, will

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By Guy Redshaw July 6, 2018January 19, 2022 Cannondale

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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By Guy Redshaw April 21, 2018December 29, 2020 Road bikes

A Hill Climb, somewhere in North Wales, UK.

There’s a place in North Wales, UK, called the Horseshoe Pass, and for obvious reasons, its name describes the landscape as it is a huge rock amphitheatre. On one side there is an impressive limestone escarpment and on the other side, old slate quarries. There are two roads that navigate

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