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Tuesday Training: Instant sprint Smash

There are times on your bike when nothing short of immediate delivery of maximum sprint power will get you up or over a particular section

Tuesday Training: Instant sprint Smash
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Monday maintenance: Living with discs

One of the big advantages of hydraulic disc brakes is their relative lack of maintenance requirements

Monday maintenance: Living with discs
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Tuesday Training: Turning up the heat

If 9 weeks still sounds like a long time, then break it down to two more 3 week on, 1 week off training sets...

Tuesday Training: Turning up the heat
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Monday maintenance: Brake bleeding

What on earth is bleeding when it refers to brake bleeding and not the holes in your knees and elbows?

Monday maintenance: Brake bleeding
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Tuesday training: High holidays and turbo boosts

This week though we’ve got another informal clinic to answer a couple of questions that have popped up in forum threads from previous training articles.

Tuesday training: High holidays and turbo boosts
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Monday Maintenance: Fitting your discs

Now you’ve chosen your disc brakes it’s time to fit them to your bike

Monday Maintenance: Fitting your discs
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Tuesday Training – Post resurrection rev up.

I’ll apologise in advance for a very quick Tuesday Training this week.

Tuesday Training – Post resurrection rev up.
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Tuesday Training – No easing up over Easter

Easter weekend falls slap bang in the middle of our second training week so we’ll tell you how to make the most of it from...

Tuesday Training – No easing up over Easter
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Monday maintenance: Disc brake basics

We reckon it’s time to take our basic maintenance series on to cover that other often fluid filled frightener – disc brakes.

Monday maintenance: Disc brake basics
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Tuesday Training - Spring into action

It’s time to open the training hutch of another of our guinea pigs as we meet forum lynchpin Pimpmaster Jazz.

Tuesday Training - Spring into action
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Monday Maintenance: VII Custom tuning forks

What happens when you've twiddled your knob sore and your forks still aren't doing what you want?

Monday Maintenance: VII Custom tuning forks
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Tuesday resting with Coach Potato

Anyone following the plan will be delighted to know that this week is the rest week of our three weeks on – one week off,...

Tuesday resting with Coach Potato
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Monday Maintenance

If you're at all squeamish about maintenance ask someone who knows what they're doing, or just get some rigid forks. I know I'm certainly very,...

Monday Maintenance
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Coach Potato’s Tuesday training No. 8

Don’t worry if you don’t have anything in common with this week’s rider though, we’ll be keeping you on line with the basic schedule in...

Coach Potato’s Tuesday training No. 8
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Monday Maintenance: Putting the dampers on it.

Suspension forks are almost universal on mountain bikes these days, but just leaving them there as they came is a waste of their potential. After...

Monday Maintenance: Putting the dampers on it.
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Coach Potato’s Tuesday training part 7

Don’t worry if you've nothing in common with this week’s rider, we’ll be keeping you on line with the basic training in the second half...

Coach Potato’s Tuesday training part 7
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Monday maintenance: Basic suspension fork set up:

Suspension forks are almost universal on mountain bikes these days, but just leaving them there as they came is a waste of their potential.

Monday maintenance: Basic suspension fork set up:
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It’s all in the ride planning – part 2

While last week’s tips concentrated on planning and riding as a group, this week we’re talking more about individual issues and responsibilities.

It’s all in the ride planning – part 2
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Coach Potato’s Tuesday training No. 6

We’re carrying on sorting out our guinea pigs one by one, and we’re also putting a growing spurt in the training plans for the rest...

Coach Potato’s Tuesday training No. 6
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Maintenance Monday 4

For this week's Maintenance Monday we're giving your chain a bath...

Maintenance Monday 4
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It's all in the ride planning: Part 1

A comprehensive guide to planning your ride...

It's all in the ride planning: Part 1
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Tuesday training: Part 5

Having already established the base building training sessions for this time of year we’re now taking a look at our guinea pigs.

Tuesday training: Part 5
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Maintenance Monday: Part 3

This week's Maintenance Monday focuses on how to look after your cables...

Maintenance Monday: Part 3
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Tuesday training 4

As soon as we started our regular Tuesday training feature we had a string of people on the forum wanting a training plan for one...

Tuesday training 4
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