Going back a year or so. One of the best bike I have worked on. My 1993 Peugeot PE 203. Picked it up for 8 euros in France and restored it to perfect riding condition and period correct. It even came with a Team Peugeot bidon! Sold it for £300, kind of regret it now.

Great day at the British Gravel Race Series today, organised by #gloriousgravel. Pretty exciting race to watch, and got to try out some pretty special bikes from #reilly titanium bikes and #seka bikes. Titanium frame are light, and extra comfortable to ride for long rides. It was great to try one out around the race track! What are people's thought on Titanium frames? Seka are a chinese brands, entering in the UK market, on track to get UCI world race licence for 2028. Though

Sometimes we need something a little more comfortable and manoeuvrable than a van! So we can introduce our new Skoda Octavia. Able to transport lots of bikes, and carry all the tools and rider kit we need on our tours and when supporting on races.

Now, I must admit I have never tried electronic gear shifting. But whilst I had the option to put it on my bike I decided to go for mechanical XT 8100. I am not an electrical engineer and I don’t think I would find it so easy to fix electronic derailleur on the side of the road, plus, I already always forget to charge my phone, my earbuds, and my music player before a ride, adding shifter batteries would be the end of me! So the horror when the MTB press announced that XT mec

#MakeMountainBikingChillAgain has started to appear on my social media recently, and I must say, it is awesome to see. For years now all my algorithms have been filled with perfectly curated man-made trails on hard packed earth and huge wooden obstacles, jumps, drops and tight boardwalks; Giant, busy bike parks full of £10,000 bikes and full face helmets. YouTube is full of crazy downhills and massive back flips in the air. Don’t get me wrong, I am in awe at the skills and de

When I was still competing my bike of choice was a 2010 Trek 8500. Back then, for the grand sum of £1500, it was considered a very high end competition alloy hardtail. Shimano XT 770 groupset including hydraulic brakes (although weirdly, but actually not that weird for Trek, a SRAM cassette), carbon seat post, Fox 32 forks, and Bontrager XXL components all around. With its Bontrager XR1 tyres, it was one very light aluminum bike. I loved it. My Trek 8500, kept original except