Unshipping your chain can be annoying at best, sometimes dangerous, especially if it happens when you’re in traffic, so you need to minimise the chances of it happening by setting up your bike right.If your chain has started to come off frequently when it didn’t in the past, something in your bike setup has changed. … Read more
The Chrome Tensile Ruckpack is light, durable and practical, with plenty of storage options. It’s not as structured as some, but I found it comfortable for carrying a variety of loads.The Tensile collection is, Chrome claims, its attempt to explore the lightest and toughest bags it could. Alongside the Ruckpack it has also released a … Read more
The Lezyne Zecto Drive Max 250 is not a new design and has been surpassed for sheer power, but it remains an excellent, highly reliable and very visible rear light. To be frank, even 250 lumens is potentially excessive for a rear light, so it’s hardly lagging in the real world.Little has changed with this … Read more
Another article about bike delays and shortages, another extremely mixed bag of comments. After we followed up from a forum post on delays at Ribble with an article a fortnight ago, lots of you got in touch once more. One of those was Ben Mowbray of E-Bikeshop, who sent us a detailed explanation of the … Read more
Police officers in Bournemouth have returned a bike to a victim of theft – before he even knew it had been stolen.The Cannondale bike, belonging to Adam Wright, had been taken from where it was locked to a bike stand at the Bournemouth University Talbot Campus, say Dorset Police.At around 9.30am on the morning of … Read more
Six in 10 people have said that the lack of safe cycle lanes or traffic-free routes is a barrier that puts them off cycling, or stops them riding bikes for everyday journeys.The finding, from a survey carried out every two years by the charity Cycling Scotland, is consistent with previous research highlighting that lack of … Read more
Did you manage to get out on the bike this weekend ahead of next week’s festive one? Our team of reviewers were certainly out and about, putting some exciting bits of kit to the test, here are the highlights…Bont Vaypor S £325The all-new Vaypors now feature the latest top-end BOA Li2 Fit System for a precise, … Read more
The Assos Mille GT Wind Jacket is super compact in your pocket and more closely fitted than most wind/emergency jackets once on. That makes it ideal for donning before an Alpine descent or, in the UK, just keeping out the chilling winds, road spray and even light showers. It’s expensive, though, so be prepared to … Read more
