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He doesn't realise they come across as irritating passive/aggressive behaviour, or perhaps he's never heard of it. Warned him about this once before. Water off a ducks back.

And then you have the French, champions of 700c and 650b and 650c based on some weird mix of metric and an ancient measuring system nobody remembers. Stone for human weight, Celsius for temp, miles for distance, Kg grams or lbs for cooking depending on particular recipe or indeed spoons. A...

Scott are looking a bit shaky. Earlier this year there was a major bust up between the old (US) owner and new (Korean) owner at HQ in Switzerland that resulted in the police being called! After International arbitration the former US owner Beatt Zaugg was forced to sell his remaining 41% and...

Marin have just released a nice looking e gravel/commuter bike. The Lombard 1 & 2. This looks a good value fun & robust bike, as is Marin's way. https://www.bikeradar.com/news/marin-lombard-e-gravel-bike

Yako has put up his unboxing of the Canyon Grizl ONfly: The Canyon journey continues!

When I raced (mid to late 80s) the first Look cliplress pedals where just coming in. I didn't have a pair, was still on toeclips & straps but didn't mind having to reach down to flick open the strap. Only remember one fall (clipped in fall) where a dab of the foot might have saved me; when the...

No, rugby is international, played all over the world, or at least a lot of the world, especially the ex British Empire lands like Oz, New Zealand, South Africa. but popular in Japan, Argentina and Georgia too, as well as the Pacific Island nations, Fiji, Samoa Tonga - amazing athletes. Gaelic...

Hills! Hills, genuine hills by golly!

Currently there's an awful plague of populist, Trumpian style behaviour, putting English St. George's Cross flags on every bloody lightpost in England. (And occasionally in Wales which is such ridiculousness). But in Ireland the flags you showed have zero to do with politics, that one is the...

you do know why the country side is full of flags in the summer?

Both were there or thereabouts, Pidcock finishing top ten, but it was Quinn Simmons who went the hardest. God loves a tryer and Simmons for sure will give it a go, He held Pog & co at 3 mins for a long long time, was he being dangled or were they getting worried? UAE pulled and pulled killing...

There's a lot of 'top ten' riders here for sure. These are the ones who have the sharpness that on the right day, right conditions, bit of luck could grab a victory and we'd not be that surprised. The Pog factor unfortunately makes this more difficult. But it's a long race, anything can happen.

Tomorrow is the 119th edition of Giro Di Lombardia or Classica delle foglie morte. The last Monument of the season & the final race that means anything before they all reconvene in Oz for the first race of the year at Tour Down Under on the 20th January 2026. The favourite? Who else but Pog...

A few of my personal favourites...

Yes that'll be v interesting! The only thing in your full review that I'm not keen on & it's a general thing is one piece bars & stem. It's a pet peeve of mine. I just think as we are all different shapes and sizes, short arms, long arms and so on, bike brands should be moving towards more...

Tut tut Yako ;) Very comprehensive full review. You've got a real easy going knack for presenting. Bet the edit was fun, all those little detail close up shots! I'm going to have to rob the post office to get hold of that bike. It ticks every box.

Perhaps I'm picking hairs. It's just you often disparage Chinese bikes on here, you like to differentiate between mainland (CCP run) China as inferior and Taiwan as superior. That's just silly. Most bike brands including Taiwan based Giant and Merida now use many many factories in China to...

Spesh bikes are mostly made in Merida run factories in Taiwan and mainland China. Not exclusively, they also sometimes go behind Merida's back, and get parts built elsewhere like in 2023 when Tianjin’s FSD helped SBC establish a factory in Vietnam. The Merida/SBC relationship in Taiwan is...