Riders Review – GoPro chest mount
5th Nov 2019
GoPro chest mount: when you love your riding POV’s this thing is a must! The padded, flexible chesty makes it easy to capture immersive hand-free shots form your chest. The straps are made from a very high quality stretchable fabric that look and feel like they will never lose their elasticity, super easy to adjust to your preferred position suiting any body type.For me running the GoPro chest mount as high as you can on your chest gives your rid
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Riders Review – Yakima HoldUp Bike Carrier
15th Oct 2019
I always love the buzz you feel as you’re packing your car with your bike and gear and heading off to a mountain bike location. Elbow & knee pads – check. Shoes – check. Helmet – check. Gloves – where are my gloves? Grab a few tools and a spare tube. Some snacks and your water bottle or camelbak. Quick check of the bike. Tyre pressure is good. Chain is lubed. Gears are changing nicely. Brakes still work – could use an adjustment but good enou
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My favourite, get fit quick for endurance training ride
10th Oct 2019
We all want to be as fit and as fast as possible all the time. However, life can get in the way and you may not always have the time to train as much or as often as you would like to. This means that you can go through periods of feeling less fit, and as a result – less motivated to get fit again. Over my years of training, I have found that there are a few sessions which help me regain fitness and quickly.Below is one of my favourite training se
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Riders Review – TRP G-Spec DH Brake
17th Sep 2019
If someone was to ask me to recommend brakes 12 months ago for their Downhill (DH) bike I would have suggested SRAM or Shimano. That is until TRP released their G-Spec DH brakes. These brakes were developed in response to Aaron Gwin’s request for a 4-piston hydraulic disc braking system that he could use on the UCI circuit. I played very close attention to the comments coming from Aaron Gwin and the various articles that were released globally. A
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Gloves… retro look or for your own good?
4th Sep 2019
As a triathlete, I am not usually one for wearing gloves other than long fingered to shelter my extremities from the cold. I always thought short fingered gloves were superfluous and only used for the benefits of extra padding, extra grip in the wet or if you were looking for that old school look from the Lance days. All that was until recently… when I crashed… hard.After wearing long fingered gloves during the winter, I met the first few days of
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