Mat has been in cycling media since 1996, on titles including BikeRadar, Total Bike, Total Mountain Bike, What Mountain Bike and Mountain Biking UK, and he has been editor of 220 Triathlon and Cycling Plus. Mat has been road.cc technical editor for over a decade, testing bikes, fettling the latest kit, and trying out the most up-to-the-minute clothing. We send him off around the world to get all the news from launches and shows too. He has won his category in Ironman UK 70.3 and finished on the podium in both marathons he has run. Mat is a Cambridge graduate who did a post-grad in magazine journalism, and he is a winner of the Cycling Media Award for Specialist Online Writer. Now over 50, he's riding road and gravel bikes most days for fun and fitness rather than training for competitions.
Listing "chain retention" as a "pro" is surely a joke? Chain retention appears to be the achilles heal of (non-clutched-derailleur) road 1x setups....
I think 1x makes sense if you are a commuter, or riding really flat terrain. Otherwise the jumps between gears are just too big to get an ideal...
Until the apple watch can do vo2 max for cycling, i'll only use mine for notifications and the daily challenges...
Came to say the same as previous commentators. Self adhesive patches are great as a roadside fix, just don't work longterm, especially when hot....
am chuckling at "seansean" in the comments. his responses didn't stand the test of time....
Went (by bike!) to their site on the east side of Rotherham, yesterday, to pick up a 'click and collect' order. (It saves the delivery charges:...
We all know that the pro bike / race situation is very different than consumer sitautions, so odd that articles are still over-relating the two......
A link to the crowdfunding would be useful
As an Australian, motorists there view cyclists that don't wear helmets as law-breaking bogans and likely to ride unsafely in traffic, so they do...
As it should be - what a fantatsic outcome.