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By mrfergieman November 1, 2020December 29, 2020 MTB

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, 2020December 29, 2020 MTB

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 ā€˜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 June 1, 2020December 29, 2020 Road bikes

The 1981 Cilo (alternative🤪) road test and review

All bicycle road test and reviews are stereotypically the same, and have been since Robert (known as Bob from here on) Lillywand, first thought of a new and innovative way to market and sell his bikes back in 1807. Bob reckoned that by using the village’s local key opinion leader,

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By mrfergieman April 26, 2020December 29, 2020 MTB

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 ā€˜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 February 1, 2020December 29, 2020 MTB

The Carbon Raven

When did you last see or hear a Raven? I’m not talking about seeing or hearing the 1970s-80s British Heavy Metal band, Raven. This was the band set up by the two Gallagher brothers, and not Noel and Liam from Manchester, UK, who also started the globally successful band, Oasis,

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By mrfergieman December 20, 2019December 29, 2020 MTB

Testing round, prototype, rubber products…..The RIDER T1

I wouldn’t be telling the utmost truth if I said that I get regular offers to go testing prototype mountain bike (MTB from now on) tyres. However, I have had just this type of offer recently. Whilst most MTB riders in Switzerland are ordering studded ice tyres or oiling their

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By mrfergieman November 23, 2019December 29, 2020 Just bike stuff

The case for The Special Tool

Special tools are designed to do one thing, really well.  How many special tools do you have in your toolbox?  How much have you spent on special tools that you’ve only ever used once, or twice or….? How many times have you not used the correct special tool on a

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By mrfergieman November 16, 2019December 29, 2020 Just bike stuff

The fascinating world and psychology of ā€˜The bicycle Collector’

A common dictionary definition of the word ā€œcollectorā€™ā€ is; a person who collects things of a specified type, professionally or as a hobby. This is obviously a broad definition, and after looking around my bike shed, and after a quick look in the mirror to see if I looked like

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By mrfergieman July 6, 2019December 29, 2020 MTB

The future of vintage bicycle sales and a spoof ā€˜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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