Travelling with your bike

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This is a really useful tip for flying with your bike, and indeed packing it in a car …

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Cyclocrosser juddering?

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We do occasionally see ’crossers coming in for workshop work. Usually the owners do loads of the mechanical work themselves- it’s the only way to keep it affordable- crossers need weekly attention- at least a wash and drive train lube after being hammered around a muddy circuit.

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Saddle biting you?

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Bike fitting is a fairly systematic process usually, moving through the contact points and making sure that some critical issues like saddle height are in the right range before moving onto finer details like handlebar roll and such.

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Don’t ya love lacing deep carbon rims?

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Zipp 530 rim, nicely laced with one lonely nipple going rattle rattle rattle in there somewhere. It only took 20min to shake that sucker out…. Grrrrr!

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Finger troubles

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Hmmm, so I can’t glue tubs today with my usual facility- I have a work stopping injury. I’ve injured my right forefinger which is my tub glue spreading finger.

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