Long Termers

Kinesis XCPro3 build project

June 1, 2010

There’s nothing like the excitement of building a mountain bike up from the constituent parts. The satisfaction from having carefully spent hours pouring over catalogues of bike parts and making decisions, taking the plunge and ordering components, with no real idea whether all the individual parts you’re about to assemble onto a naked frame will [...]

Trek Top Fuel 9.9 SSL update

May 26, 2010

Fresh from 24-hours of racing I’ve been finding it difficult to ride any other bike recently, in fact since I received the Trek Top Fuel 9.9 SSL some months ago. After spending eight days in the company of the bike during the South Africa Cape Epic stage race in March, I’ve come accustomed to the [...]

Old dog, new tricks

December 9, 2009

Look along the trail, not at the trail, along the trail Next year will be my 20th of mountain biking. That’s a long time, and makes me feel even older than I do already. Like most people, I just kind of learnt to ride off-road, making it up as I went along with input from [...]