When you get further into riding you can tweak a few things. One of those ‘things’ is working out the gearing on your bike, you can muck around with online ratio calculators to find out what works or go ride your mates’ bikes set up. For those that don’t know […]
I won’t shut up about Gearing
Wensley’s Cycles & 2 Tyre Tracks 8 Hour
The weekend brought a few of us a Saturday 4 / 8-hour mountain biking enduro event out at Sandy Point MTB Tracks. This is a well-organised event run by the Southland Mountain Bike Club, supported by local MTB enthusiasts and sponsored by Wensley’s Cycles & 2 Tyre Tracks Starting at […]
Reflect’or’ing on Tubeless
Since I got my Fat Boy I’ve wondered about going full ‘Monty’ tubeless. The Internet communicates some wonderful success and failure stories about this very thing, enough of them to keep a reader entertained and or to stop procrastinating further about trying to justify the change and just go and […]
When is Fat “Too Fat”
Let’s talk about weight loss. Fat Bikes, just look heavy. This is the first thing non-fat bike riders think when they see one and who can blame them when the tyres just look like they belong on a motorbike. If your Fat Bike has a alloy frame and a carbon […]
May 2019 Wall Paper
Added a Ranger Frame Bag from Revelate Designs https://www.revelatedesigns.com/index.cfm/store.catalog/frame-bags/fullframebags
Ratios, get this in your head
Gearing ratios are really interesting, it can be the maker or decider of your riding endurance. I think it is more of a personal bike ratio v.s. human capabilities thing, meaning it really comes down to the individual on how they ride that bike with that “Front Crank to Rear […]
Time to carbon up
Dirty cheap Chinese 3K rated Carbon bike parts is a thing. Too tempting to buy and put on your bike, because it is cheap. But is it good? The internet couldn’t tell me if a 3K Carbon thing is good, the eBay / AliExpress Sellers said they were good and […]