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Cycling is a funny old game. Call me a grumpy old man (and you’d be right…) but it seems like more and more these days, in cycling, it’s easy to spend as much time thinking about how your bike and kit looks, (Think pristine white cycling shoes!), as much as how your bike and body … Continue reading How Your Cycling Shoes Should Influence Your Cleat Position
Kriss from Strength For Endurance hosts Wei on this online masterclass to reveal the essentials of bike fitting. In this masterclass replay, you’ll learn how to cut through all the conflicting information to discover the same reliable method we use in our bike fit studio day-in-day-out, to help you find your best position. Join the … Continue reading The Essential 10 Step Process For An Effective Bike Fit: Masterclass Replay
How To Buy A Bike The Right Way Cut Through The Mis-information & Marketing Hype With This Simple 5 Step Method So, you want to buy a new bike? Cool! Whether you’re a kid at Christmas and you’ve just unwrapped your first BMX, or you’re a more ”mature” cyclist making your next big purchase to add to … Continue reading The Right Way To Buy A New Bike
I find the pervading negativity that pervades the general news not healthy… so I tend not to pay too much attention to it these days… But the recent kerfuffle around the cancellation of the HS2 rail project unexpectedly provided with me with an interesting reminder… 🤔 We live in a capitalist society and the ultimate … Continue reading How Capitalism Is Affecting Your Fit(ness)
Watch this replay of our popular live webinar with, Kriss Hendy from Strength For Endurance. He reveals how committed riders can unlock their cycling performance by using the right strategies in the off-season. Kriss takes us through how to avoid the setbacks and injuries that often derail talented athletes. He discusses what strength training actually … Continue reading What Is Effective Strength Training For An Endurance Athlete
It’s September… Already!?!?! Back to school, back to work, the summer is ending, the days are getting shorter, cyclo-cross is coming… Well, maybe summer never really came this year, but cyclo-cross is still coming and I am getting excited for that! But before you start pulling out the arm-warmers and mudguards, I want you to … Continue reading The Best Time Of Year To Get A Bike Fit
Matt Phillips just became my hero for writing the article pictured above. It’s that time of year when the big brands are launching their latest and greatest. The big ‘S’ just launched their Tarmac SL8 “Speed Sniffer“, quickly followed by the new Canyon Endurace CFR (Canyon Factory Racing). There’s no doubt these are both beautiful, well made, high performing machines (I love … Continue reading Can You Avoid The Perils Of Integrated Handlebars?
Cycling is a sport of repetition… quite literally… we make around 10,000 pedal strokes an hour… yup, that’s a lot! So we like to think practice makes perfect (or per-fit!) But there seems to be special significance to this number. Malcolm Gladwell popularized the 10,000 hours to become a master concept and of course there’s the … Continue reading Practice Makes Per-fit
Is there still a place for them in an industry where the big manufacturers are doing their level best to sell us ‘off the shelf’ sizes? Many consider that custom bikes are essentially dead. But they said the same about vinyl didn’t they… This was our topic of discussion on our recent podcast. Give it … Continue reading Are Custom Bikes Dead?
We thought it was time for something a bit different… so we made a podcast! Mat and I have teamed up with Lee (bike fitter) and Ev (wheel builder) for some weekly juice about the underbelly of the bike industry. Between the four of us, there’s over half a century of experience working within the industry, riding (and crashing!) bikes, … Continue reading Soft Issues: We Made a Podcast!