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I have experience with Racers and with the Greenguard 32-559. The Greenguard will give much more puncture protecton but be a lot less comfortable than the Racer. Note the 32mm Greenguard is a thicker, slower and less comfortable tyre than the 37mm Greenguard. I am very impressed with the current gen...

Here it is: IMG_20210123_115301.jpg I've added the Zefal Classi stay-less mudguards and the blue bottle cage. Also the pedals are not the ones it came with which had rather rough bearings. Otherwise standard. All in weight as you see it here with ping bell and reflectors is 23lbs. I could easily tak...

I became disenchanted with BB7s and now have Tektro Aquilas on two of my bikes. Large pads, caliper alignment but only distance adjustment of the moving pad. They just seem to work and are noticeably lighter than the bb7s.

A quick update just to say that I'm very happy with the T-Tris 20 and there's nothing I would change. which is quite unusual given the way I have tinkered with other recumbents over the years. Although I did change the RD because I found the Sora medium cage one fouled the chain stay which was odd. ...

They certainly last longer because there are more links to take the wear. Chain tubes help keep the muck off but lubrication gradually turns to grime regardless.

PS. A rather nice Sprint RS has come up on eBay located Exeter if you haven't already committed.

North Bikes are contacting the supplier to get another brake pivot screw for me

Good news, my wife is ok with the reach to the bars. She sat on the bike with the seat post raised 6cm so the height sizing is pretty good. Bad news, I couldn't fix the sticking front brake because one of the brake pivot posts is bent. However they are removable so the easiest things is to get new o...

A review so far of the Squish 26 in the reviews section. I may have screwed up on the sizing. The top tube is long on the 15" frame.

I want to get my Mrs cycling again. She’s rather short with short legs. I previously built up a 43 cm Pinnacle Neon 2 frame (700c wheels) but I had to fit a short stem to reduce the reach, the saddle was on the lowest setting and the Neon won’t take tyres larger than 32mm. So I decided to find a 26”...

That's a clear explanation. So rules of origin tariffs were comimg anyway, regardless of Brexit. The German recumbent firms Hase and HP Velotechnic will be clobbered by this because less than 55% of their bikes are made in Germany.

^ There you have it, that absolutely sorts out my issue. I found that removing the wheel was straightforward it was refitting that was the issue. Found that if I actually sat on the nack of the seat, to put my weight on the back wheel, it sat the wheel straight in good working order. So, I have an ...

The 700 has road spacing and sometimes you still need to spring the chainstays to get the hub to slot in.

Hi, I am 4ft 10in and have been riding small road frames for almost 40 years. After a few bad experiences on so called 'small frames' I ended up having future frames made to measure. Off the shelf bikes regardless of how small they are tend to come with full size wheels (700c) and even worse, full ...

I've just ordered a Squish 26 for my wife who is short with short limbs. I looked at Isla and Frogs bikes before going with Squish. I will have the challenge of adding mudguards, rack, bottle cage, more gears etc but overall the geometry looked sensible and the price is good. Will report back when i...

My wife had the vaccine on Dec 15th, my mum had hers today, I get mine on Weds.

The Mrs was due for her 2nd last saturday but it's been postponed. I'm not worried, we both had COVID back in March so the first jab is our booster