So, it finally happened. It was bound to eventually. Only as a result of necessity mind. I had a New Bike Day.I have been riding a rim brake bike with mechanical gearing in an old race position, largely unchanged save for some tiny tweaks, for over 15 years. In that time three key things have happened. I have gotten older. I have gotten less fit. I have stopped racing.I did well I think. Up until…
I did not set out to be a retailer. I consider myself a lapsed Biologist. I studied it at Uni and was particularly fond of the macro: animal behaviour and ecology, so what follows is meaningful personally. My trajectory changed shortly after leaving university. I was pondering my future in science while working a weekday 9-5, supplemented by weekend bike shop work. If it hadn’t been for a crate of beer and a drunken discussion…
Hello people of the wheel.Firstly let me wish you all a very Happy New Year. Let us hope that 2023 brings plenty of positives to us all. I for one hope to renew my love affair with the bike after a distracted few years. It will be a slow (literally) but rewarding process, of that I have no doubt. I’m penning this partly as a catharsis but primarily to relay some thoughts and feelings and…
