I've just published a 30-min interview on YouTube with a bit more insight into my crazy life! You'll hear my backstory, why I cycle with panniers, what my favourite memories are and more!
I've timestamped the whole thing so you can pick and choose the questions you want to hear answered.
1:51 How long are you currently...
The most efficient bicycle chain runs in a perfectly straight line, in fact, a drivetrain without gears (singlespeed) can operate with 97% efficiency. The result is that 97% of the power that you put into the pedals goes into driving your rear wheel. When we add derailleur gears to a bike, the chain has to bend in a number of ways as it...
I've spent the last few months writing a new book on bikepacking bikes! The Bikepacking Bike Buyer's Guide takes a close look at the best bikepacking bikes, including their frame features, steering speeds, tyre widths, gear ratios, weights and more. It's designed so that the front section of the book informs you about the key bike...
A good seatpost is the key to achieving a comfortable ride. That's because along with your tyres, seatposts actually make up the bulk of your bike's comfort - in fact, a well-designed carbon seatpost flexes at a rate 7x greater than a steel frame!
The Ergon CF3 carbon seatpost requires 69N of force to flex one vertical millimetre...
This month was the toughest yet! I rode through snow on the equator, along aqueducts, up river roads, down insane hiking trails and across the Colombian border to the Death Road.
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