Long Termers: Dave’s Kona Kilauea

Long Termers: Dave’s Kona Kilauea

I’ve been riding the Kona a lot recently, mainly due to my Cannondale Rush finally needing a bit of TLC after two winters of pretty solid use. Similar to my…

Long Termers: Dave’s Kona Kilauea

Long Termers: Dave’s Kona Kilauea

So I’ve been putting in some miles on the Kilauea and they’ve tended to be uphill ones.

Long Termers: Dave’s Kona Kilauea

Long Termers: Dave’s Kona Kilauea

So it's done and I've been so busy riding I forgot to write the update. Here it is...

Long Termers: Dave’s Kona Kilauea

Long Termers: Dave’s Kona Kilauea

Just a quick update as I slowly gather parts for the build.

Long Termers: Dave’s Kona Kilauea Project Black part deux

Long Termers: Dave’s Kona Kilauea Project Black part deux

I seem to have become a carbon magnet

Long Termers: Dave’s Cannondale Rush XX

Long Termers: Dave’s Cannondale Rush XX

Six months in how's Dave finding the Cannondale Rush XX?

How weekends should be….

How weekends should be….

Dave experiences some great riding on uncrowded trails.

Snow good

Snow good

I get real pleasure from riding in snow, especially if  I'm officially "stuck at home".

Longtermers: Dave’s Cannondale Rush XX

Longtermers: Dave’s Cannondale Rush XX

Fast and light has been my mantra for bivvy trips and gear.

Nice work Nick

We’d just like to say we’re very happy that Nick Craig has won the 2009 Three Peaks Cyclocross race 🙂 In a closely fought race from the off, Nick and…

Oh the irony

So a week ago we retreated up to Austria from Slovenia due to the combination of high temperatures and high humidity making riding just a little bit too much hard…

Words done, van packed. We’re outta here.

You can’t beat a good deadline rush even though it’s early this issue thanks to the efficiency of Sim and Ben at the helm. Finished words for the next issue…

Local Rides for Local People

We’ve a simple rule in our house; If the sun’s shining we’re out riding. And so faced with the prospect of having to sort out the garden fence it was…

Like sleeping rough? This might be for you…

*Bump*. So we're making Thursday 23rd the Inaugural Nuit de Bivvy Internationale. As Neil Young would say - TONIGHT IS THE NIGHT.

Sram XX – the low down.

Dave A reports back from the SRAM XX launch in Italy having taken the test bikes around a blistering hot Tuscan landscape. There are US prices in here too -…

Sram XX shifter close up

Last post before I pop off for dinner, here’s the XX shifter. Designed from the ground up just like the rest of the groupset but influenced by what Sram have…

Sram XX forks

Here’s a taster of the new XX forks, more tech information later.. Here’s the XX Sid world cups with reworked lowers, steerer and crown. All forks feature the new X…

That Sram XX cassette in close up

Dave gives us some super-closeups of the new SRAM XX rear cassette. It's a madness of intricate machining - which it should be for over $300...

Shhh – Sram XX Updated

Dave Anderson reports from the SRAM XX launch in Italy... Ten speed, two chainrings and Centrelock? Whatever next?