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11 February 2012
IQ Cyo headlight
This is the bike light that revolutionized night time riding for me.
Dynamo or battery driven, its winning combination of (relative) cheapness, light weight, reliability, and lumens on the road make this a real star.
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10 February 2012
Winterwear
What do you need to ride year-round in a bitter Scots winter?
My experience is that a normal outdoorsy wardrobe will manage nicely, thank you very much!
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31 January 2012
Sturmey Archer X-FDD
70mm drum brake and dynamo combine in a front hub that leaves no box unticked in the hardcore utility market segment.
You don’t need one of these, but you should want one.
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29 January 2012
Caution – Long Vehicle!
2m of coving makes this the longest load I’ve had on my stock Carry Freedom.
Probably just about the limit unless you’re sure you won’t be going over speed bumps and so on!
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12 January 2012
Got wood?
73KGs of fallen lumber transported with aplomb by the Carry freedom Y-frame.
The trailer managed easily enough… more than can be said for me!
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24 November 2011
Life with four wheels
The first of many updates on life with a Carry Freedom Y-Frame trailer, which is a good sort of life.
Reflections on fitting to two bikes, noise, load, reuse of council recycling boxes, cunning shopping strategies, and more.
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9 November 2011
Carry Freedom Y Frame
From the first moment I hitched it to my bike, I knew this was one purchase I wouldn’t have many second thoughts about.
Why didn’t I buy one earlier, it would have paid for itself ten times over by now!
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15 October 2011
Nazca Gaucho videos
A couple of quick videos to share, both on the Nazca Gaucho 28 highracer I borrowed from Laid Back Bikes over the summer.
One on tight slow manoeuvring, the other a playful ride through traffic!
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22 September 2011
PBP: Going Faster
There are four years and myriad assumptions involved in getting to PBP 2015, but I’d like to think I’ll be back and angling for a much faster ride.
At times the only thing that kept me going was the surety that the only thing worse than what I was enduring would be to fail to endure it!
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31 August 2011
Nazca Gaucho 28
If you’re ever passed by a Gaucho 28, the first thing you’ll probably notice is the light pair of full-size 700C wheels, shod with Continental’s sublime GP4000s – a combination that wouldn’t be out of place on an upmarket conventional racing bike…
A lovely contoured carbon seat and shiny carbon forks round off a package that includes oh-so-aero reverse-mounted brake calipers and a butted derailleur boom which flares at the end to accommodate a conventional band-on attachment. A real racing recumbent, right?