News
e-MTB: Battery powered Mountain Bikes
The market in ebikes is growing fast with the mountain bike world catching on to battery powered bikes – e-MTB!
Negative changes to Cycle2Work scheme
Guidance on how the UK Cycle2Work scheme should be administered threatens to undermine the whole idea. Meaning individuals, businesses and even government could lose out.
UK bike sales explosion
Bike sales grow in the UK despite recession, prompted by a benign tax environment and other strong postive bike-ownership pressures.
Orange 2011 Crush and Five S at Cycleworks
The new 2011 Orange bikes are starting to reach retailers early this year and they have some nice looking bikes
Shimano 2011 AM45 ride shoes – love or loathe?
The new AM45 and AM41 shoes from Shimano adds to their already successful skate-style bike shoe range
Orange Five for 2011 – the Surrey Hills influence
The suggestions that Dave from Cycleworks made to Orange have made it into production on the 2011 Orange Five!
Shimano XTR for 2011
Shimano and SRAM are in a battle for your wallet, which means their best components (XTR and XX respectively) are very impressive indeed
KCNC roller bearing bottom bracket
KCNC have used roller bearings rather than the standard cartridge bearings to hopefully extend the life of their new bottom bracket
Shimano Dyna-sys 10 speed gears
Shimano may have missed the point of 10-speed mountain bikes by offering a triple front chainring while SRAM goes for just two.
New Crank Brothers cockpit kit
A brief comment on the new Cranks Brothers cockpit kit including stems, handlebars, seatposts and grips
2010 tree felling on Holmbury Hill
Holmbury Hill tree felling and tree clearing plans for 2010. Quite a large area affected.
SRAM gets busy for 2011 with X7, Elixir 3 and RS Sektor
SRAM have moved quickly to get their top-line XX technology into the hands of mainstream riders with a combination of new X7, Elxir 3 and RS Sektor kit