As promised last week, here is a full review of the Mango single speed I have been riding for a month now. Mango was started in 2012 by two uni friends who wanted a bike that was fun and easy to ride, but was affordable. They acknowledged that ...
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How to Lubricate Your Bike
Keep your bike in great condition by lubricating it properly. This is especially important in the winter when you bike gets wet frequently and the roads get even dirtier than normal. The question often asked is how frequently should someone apply ...
£300 or less: Three of best single speed bikes
Single speed bikes have a certain allure to many riders in London and beyond. There are people who love them and take great pride in their bike set ups. They feel that riding single speed, or even better: fixed, is true cycling. Then there are those ...
Do you need cycling clothes?
Reading this blog or many other bike blogs, you will have inevitably come across talk of "essential" clothing and accessories for cycling. Is this all just hokum to sell things? Well, that depends. What one person deems essential is going to ...
How to do a bike safety check
Completing a safety check helps diagnose any maintenance issues before they affect you while you are out cycling. Depending on how much time you've got you may want to do the 10 second check, or if you've got 5 minutes then the M-Check is far more ...
Lumo Herne Hill Harrington jacket review
Lumo, a new British company on the cycling clothing scene, has two types of jackets out of both men and women. These are no normal jackets though, these are extra snazzy. The company went live on Kickstarter a little while ago and has just had ...
Joyfully riding a cargo bike in London
Guest post by Sylvia Gauthereau The first time I rode a bicycle on a proper road was liberating - finally I was doing something that only grown up, or bigger kids did. I remember the wind on my face and through my hair, the excitement of riding ...
Why can’t we be friends?
Increasing the number of cyclists in London is not solely reliant on better infrastructure. For there to be more cyclists, there needs to be more people that are happy and comfortable on the roads. They need to want to give it a try and then want to ...
The ultimate guide to bike types
What type of bike do you ride? Do you judge other cyclists riding different bikes (don't lie, we all do it). How much do you really know about the benefits of other types of bikes? It is easy to get set into a specific riding style, but switching it ...
Arc’teryx A2B reviewed
Arc'teryx is well known in climbing and hiking circles for producing very high quality, well fitting clothing. They have had a commuter line for a few years now but it seems to have attracted very little attention in this country. With the opening of ...