Brother Cycles Mehteh, blue fade, This Brother Mehteh running the all new hydro / mechanical 12s SRAM Apex1 groupset. That’s a 40t upfront with an Eagle 10-52 cassette #spintowin Hand built with WTB 650 rims on Hope Pro5 hubs and some relatively chunky 2.1 Mezcal tyres under those 56mm SKS Read More
Brother Mr Wooden, first out the door!
Our first Brother Mr Wooden complete build went out the door over the weekend and that was an experience. With some superb component choices and some classic stuff that just happened to be stacked up just in case this came out super sweet. The frame colour is just great and Read More
Sparkle Magenta Surly Ogre
Well, this was a fun one. Medium Surly Ogre re-coated in Magenta Sparkle ( once more by our friends @cyclonepowdercoating in Sunny Stockport ) Matching Widefoot Cargo mounts too 🙂 1×11 Shimano SLX drivetrain with Middleburn RS8 cranks, the original modular set up, gotta love a bit of future proofing. Read More
SRMR – the short version.
So, we’re back super early from the Silk Road Mountain Race 2019 in Kyrgyzstan due to an incident involving Shona’s head and a staircase in a guesthouse. The cut was pretty deep and swollen so helmet wearing was not an option. Racing over. As we were 6 hours from the Read More
Crivets!
We saw these when we visited the Angry Catfish bikeshop in Minneapolis – replacement rivets to bling up your Cambium. £40.00 and in stock now! Made in the USA in Upstate Utah Includes: 5 coloured Cambium rivets – red, blue, orange, gold, green, pink or turquoise 5 screws with threadlock Read More
Silk Road Mountain Race 2018
It took us 14 days to cover the 1700 kilometres to complete the first Silk Road Mountain Race. Four days longer than we had originally anticipated. That seems the going rate for the under-estimation for all 97 riders that toe’d the line in Bishkek on that Saturday morning. Of those Read More
The 2nd Torino – Nice rally.
After seeing and hearing about last years inaugural Torino – Nice rally we decided it was definitely on our ‘to do’ list. We managed to be organised enough to book our flights to Italy and our first nights accommodation in January and then we promptly forgot about it. Fast forward to 2 Read More
Dirty Reiver 200 #1
Dirty Reiver 200 Personalised plates. We first expressed an interest in a Salsa Powderkeg around four years ago. Prototypes came and went, we couldn’t get our hands on anything small enough. There was obviously a lot going on Stateside that helped to produce the amazing bike we have just got our Read More
Winter Highland riding – Top loop of the Highland Trail 550
It’s been a while since we’ve been this far North in Scotland. Once we’d closed up the shop on Christmas Eve, dropped Olive the Dog at the minders and had a chip supper we headed 431 miles North to Oykel Bridge. We arrived reasonably early and grabbed a couple of Read More