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Muffling the creaks
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When riding, we can fixate on that creak, or that gear that isn’t quite indexed. Or, we can pedal in a different gear and tune out of the creak and into the birds. This week is one of those where the birds and the creak are doing battle, and somehow that bad gear is always the one that I really want to be in:
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- Glorious bike ride and skinny dip - tweet, tweet.
- Van MOT passed - tweety tweet tweet.
- New warning light on van - clickity creak.
- Jack Daniels swigging youths at swimming spot - click click clunk.
- New and fabulous watering can arrives - tweet!
- More money spent, van warning light off - clunkety tweet.
- Husband breaks arm - clickety clunk, clickety clunk.
- Saw two swarms of bees and a moorland of fluffy bog cotton - tweety tweet bzzz
- It’s the right arm, not the left one with all the metal in it already - tweet.
- The sun is shining. Twitter.
The sun is shining. Outside is nice. Onwards, ignoring the clunks. All will be well…
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I hope your week’s birdsong muffles the clunks. And if not, there’s always next week.
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P.S. Learning point from this week: it’s really hard to get tadpoles out of your hydration bladder. Other receptacles for tadpole rescue in this dry weather are recommended.
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Order now to get June's magazine fresh from the printers. Delivery will be mid June 2025.
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£10.00 Original price was: £10.00.£7.99Current price is: £7.99.
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Have yourself a big injection of good vibes this June. Put down your phone, pick up our print magazine, and take yourself a way to a world of mountain bike happiness. Check out what's inside the June issue... Join us by midnight on 24th May to have your name on the list to receive a printed copy. Already a subscriber? …
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Tell the world! Derailleurs are dead! Long live the belt! Well, that's what some folk are saying anyway.
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For the month of May we are offering new subscribers a choice of long sleeved technical ride jersey from our Ltd Edition range. Lots of colours and sizes to pick from and each is worth £45. All you need to do to is subscribe to our annual print membership plan by the end of the month and you get to …
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When Palestinian cyclist Alaa Al Dali was preparing to compete in the Asian Games, he was shot by an Israeli sniper and as a result of the injuries lost his lower leg. He went on to co-found the Gaza Sunbirds, the Palestinian Para-Cycling team. With the ongoing situation in Gaza, and many of its members now refugees around the world, the …
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Round 2 of the Welsh Enduro took place at Machynlleth over the weekend. Here's Aran’s second report of his enduro race season.
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Kata Rasch was at Bespoked Manchester with her steel brazed hardtail. As a new builder landing in a foreign land and having a whole bunch of people ask you about your frame in a second language, it must have been quite an intimidating experience. I persuaded her to submit to a few questions about her work. Kata: I make custom …
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Hey, it's not a mountain bike. But this is still a very nice bicycle.
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Unlike most idler-equipped bikes, the Norco Optic doesn’t have that much travel and its main pivot location isn’t all that high.
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