Recent content by Rás Cnoic

Panny Gravelkings SK (small knobs) 42mm and below, the WTB Byways 44mm. I swap between them depending on road conditions/time of year. Have used both for at least 2 or 3 years & more. No rubbing. No issues. Before that I had 40mm WTB Nanos. No issues. Before that the stock Spesh Pathfinder Sport...

And yet and yet ...

See if you can move the rear light wires inside the frame to the seat post. Check if Spesh used the same seat post as the non EQ version, if so it will have a hole especially for the wires. Then purchase the Lezyne light that comes with the non EQ version to fit the SWAT mount under the saddle...

There is nothing worse then when the bike mechanic shakes his head and say he can't find anything wrong- except in this case where there were 2 of the feckers.

So that's that for the 2026 Grand Tours; Visma, UAE and Movistar. Next year?!

Lovely award ceremony too by that fountain. Nice that Van Aert twice rolled his Cervelo into the limelight! Only Van Aert could pull that up with such nonchalance! Lovely looking bike in that racing green too. Classy race. God it makes the much diminished Tour of Britain look like the junior...

Just heard that Dunbar crashed 13km from the finish yesterday and is out with broken collarbone. A day after winning a stage and just back from 2 separate broken bone incidents earlier in the year. Up and down in a nutshell.

Loads of bridleways or byways near me that are perfectly legal for me to ride but I check the OS map for the contour lines first because some are almost vertical!! Even a pony would fall over backwards...

Looking at Mas's wins and near misses, he's a home boy. All his 2nds and thirds and stages are in Spain. He's ridden the TdF 7 times but does not seem able to perform there. Its like the old days when outside the top few Hinaults and other world stars if you rode the Giro it was 90% italian...

Thought I was being pretty clear... Look at it this way. Which WT team has won the most Grand Tours? Movistar - 17 (7 TdF, 4 Giro, 4 Vuelta) Mas has come 2nd in GC three times at the Vuelta. He's come 3rd in GC once, he has won 2 stages and come 2nd on stages no less then 6 times. Overall...

I don't rate the GCN gang too much to be honest. It's fairly simple - With Pog out and Mas riding very well, he immediately became favourite. He'd already out climbed the other favourites and was the only one able to keep up/catch Pog the previous day. A fantastic sign how well he was going...

Barring anything untoward on tomorrow's final stage, Mas has won the Vuelta. He really rose to the challenge, as have Movistar. I'm delighted for both. And another blast from the past with Mikel Landa winning the stage at the great old age of 36. His first Vuelta stage in 11 years. He was very...

He still has that v cool Pinarello - I think?

Is that bike-insights or another comparison site?

Dunbar was one of the Ineos young guns who got imprisoned as mountain doms instead of getting a chance to try themselves. He left along with Pidcock and others in 22 and with Jaeco the next year finished 7th in the Giro, then following year 2 Vuelta mountain stages demonstrating that devastating...