It‘s been almost 3 weeks since I came back from Geneva where I took part in the 4th edition of Hells Belles European all female bike polo tournament and all this time I have been dreading the moment I will finally have to sit down and try to word my Read More
Wonderful Wheels
A varied wheel selection for your inspiration… Left to right; SP dynamo laced to H Plus Son Archetype rim Alfine 8-speed re-laced into a single speed Surly CrossCheck back wheel and a wheelset for a Surly Ogre – Rohloff Speedhub and Son dynamo both laced to Velocity Blunt 35’s for Read More
Bog Trotting the Bearbones 200
So this year the BB200 was to be a different beast. After 30 people managed to get black badges last year it was time for the bar to be raised the course made tougher. And it was… 67 people set off from the start- and 3 seconds in we Read More
Jones Bikes – new stuff coming
Some of you may have seen Jeff’s blog post about his up and coming new stuff. If you haven’t check it out here – Jeff’s Blog We’ve just got off the phone with the UK importer and we’re chuffed to say that the Jones Plus framesets and carbon Loop bars Read More
Trolls in Scotland
After a tough few months at the Keep Pedalling Headquarters we all (well, the 3 of us, or 4 if you count Olive the terrier) decided that we needed a break. Olive was packed off to a relative for her own special quality time and Sylwia took herself off to Read More
Surly Travellin’ Trolloff
So we decided to build the ultimate on/off road tourer. With an off road excursion in Morocco in December planned it was time to build up the bike for a shakedown trip in Scotland. We chose to use a Surly Troll as the foundation for the build, when the cockroaches Read More
Bristol Bikefest
We’re back from tandemeering at this Sundays event. Battered, cut, bruised and broken. After bending our front timing chainring for the second time on the second lap we called it a day and grabbed a fat bike instead. Way to go is a smaller 32 chainring for better clearance and Read More
Fatties on the beach
It’s always good to get out and ride our bikes and catch up with some customers at the same time. So a ride organised by John (one of said customers) on Sunday proved to be the ideal opportunity. We left Oldham and headed out to the coast and to clearer Read More
Riding the Welsh Ride Thing
So we decided to take a well earned break last bank holiday and get out and ride our bikes for more than a day. At fairly short notice we decided we’d go and do the Welsh Ride Thing. The WRT isn’t a race it’s more of a challenge that can Read More
Riding new bikes in the sunshine
It was the begining of April again and time for a little celebration. It was around this time 3 years ago that we opened our little shop. For the second year running we’ve invited a few customers and a couple of guys from Surly Bicycle Corporation have come over to Read More