bikes

who says bikers can’t have a little comfort? maybe not what you think: this is not an additional suspension component (don’t let the looks fool you) but a height adjustable seat post. why? – so that i don’t have to get off my bike before that difficult / fast downhill section & move the seat…

i’ve finally been able to re-arrange my cockpit. my hope mono m4 brakes arrived yesterday, and of course i had to install them right away. i love the feel of the mono lever. should i get the red anodized master cylinder caps? nah .. i think that would be a bridge too far. the proceed…

i was not in the market for a new bike, but when some guys ‘borrowed’ the proceed i had no choice. sticking with the ideas behind the fst light i wanted something with long suspension travel to allow me to cruise down hill comfortably, while being light enough to let me pedal uphill easily. well…

unsprung weight is bad. because it is unsprung. more specifically? it is the stuff that rattles the wheel of your car / bike / etc even though all these expensive suspension components are doing their very best to keep the wheels where they are supposed to be, i.e. on the ground. the reason is that…

what were you thinking, specialized? seriously! you can call it titanium all you want, we know brown when we see it. i don’t mean to say all bikes should be painted – or anodized – black or silver, or pink if it is a woman specific bike, but brown should be banned from any designers…

natalie, kris and i spent the last 2 weeks in melbourne. i had to go there on business, and the girls came along with me. as usual they saw more of the city than i (probably) ever will (we will post pictures in the coming days). however, we had to cut our visit short when…

since kris & natalie went up to queensland to join kris’ parents for a week i was free to go up to the watagans again. we went on a similar loop as last time, but in reverse – which meant we were doing tunks uphill (last time i did it downhill with philippe & jeremy;…