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Well, what a year it has been. Things started off as usual, and then nothing was normal. The lack of travel proved a blessing in disguise as I took to my local trails and roads with greater frequency than what I’d managed in recent years, and similarly I found myself spinning spanners more often, too. …

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Removing a cassette from a wheel isn’t a difficult task, but it does require two specialist tools. First, you need a tool to undo the locking, and then you need a tool to stop the cassette from freewheeling backward. Most commonly that second tool is a chain whip, effectively a piece of bicycle chain mounted …

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Gosh, has it really been a year since I last wrote one of these? As expected, 2019 was the year of disc-equipped racing bikes, gravel bikes that blur the line with what an MTB does better, and the if-it-doesn’t-have-a-motor-or-connect-to-a-TV-it’s-dirt movement. However, amongst the obvious industry-led trends, there are also a number of products that stood …

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Your bicycle’s chain is put through hell every time you ride. For every minute of pedaling, approximately 44,000 chain pieces are in motion, creating 320,000 separate instances of sliding surface friction. And all of this is on a component that sits near to the ground and is exposed to the elements. Just like your tyres …

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