Category Archives: Review

Playlist.

Posted on 28th April 2020
If the instagram post is now thought of as long form content to complement your insta-story, then the blog is as dead as print. So lets go old school and use some windows paint to edit the photo.
What do mountain bike guide's carry in their rucsac? Or backpack if you prefer. And music. Mostly music.
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Scaphoid stories

Posted on 23rd May 2018
This is my wrist about 3 hours after the crash. This is not what a wrist should look like :-(
A broken scaphoid sucks, but the fracture isn't the end of the world, here's some information that might help.
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101 things that could have gone better

Posted on 5th October 2016
Why is it always the elbow?
Injuries. The grey cloud inside mountain biking's silver lining.
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ESI Silicone grip review

Posted on 4th September 2015
Never mind the grips, THAT'Swhat i call a winter playground.

Ever heard a mountain biker whine about a bikes contact points? Grips, saddle and pedals all seem surprisingly divisive for lumps of plastic and metal. Riders sound like Goldilocks as they flit between grips. Too hard, too soft, too thin, too thick. Over the years my preferences for set up have varied (obviously never following fashion and whatever the worlds fastest have been doing) from steep brake lever angles to almost horizontal. Narrow bars to wide bars (well, narrow was all you could get back in’t day) short bikes to long (again, for years you bought the smallest frame size … [Read full post]

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Works components thick/thin chainring review (and 1×10 mutterings)

Posted on 10th August 2013
thick thin thick thin thick thin thick thin thick. You get the idea.

During the winter I fell in love with a new bike. Over several months I worked on the arguments and rational that I actually NEEDED, not merely wanted, said new bike. Finally, after the application of considerable amount of man-math to reduce the purchase price to something only very large, I bought the bike. And it’s amazing in every way, not needing anything changed, except to go from 2×10 to 1×10.

Why? Last summer several of my riding mates went 1×10, arguing that if you’re in the granny then you might as well walk, that chain devices are lighter and … [Read full post]

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2013 Nukeproof Mega AM review

Posted on 3rd July 2013

I didn’t start this blog with the intention of writing any kit reviews, but it’s been pointed out that riding 5 or so days a week in the alps for half the year gives you a pretty good chance of finding any issues with gear, and that testing gear’s a good way to blag free stuff, so with this in mind here’s some text and pictures on the 2013 Nukeproof Mega AM…

The first thing to note is that this review was done in the Chamonix and with riding in the alps, particularly Chamonix, in mind. The bike that works … [Read full post]

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