Category: Denton Cycles
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Washing a bike – My Bike Cleaning Process
Washing a bike… how difficult can it be? I deliver a lot of bike maintenance training sessions and this is a question that I’m asked all the time. Like every subject I teach during these training sessions, bike washing, just like gear adjustments for example, is just a process; follow the process, step by step,…
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A New Booking System for my Mobile Newcastle Bike Repairs, Servicing & Training
As the owner of a business that is rapidly going from strength to strength, I’m finding it more and more difficult to get time for admin, answering messages, organising calendars and bookings, among all the other tasks you need to do just to keep a business running. I always strive for ways to make things…
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Bicycle Servicing – Five Simple Signs Your Bike Needs A Service
Riding your bike should be all about the enjoyment of the wind blowing through your hair (under your helmet of course), hearing the birds singing in the hedgerows, and the smoothness of the bike underneath you as it rolls along the perfect tarmac. While I can’t do anything about the riding conditions, I can help…
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A Week Spent with Dave Yates Learning the Skills of Framebuilding – A Complete Bike
A few weeks after receiving my frame back from Dave, and I’ve finally assembled the kit to build it.
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A Week Spent with Dave Yates Learning the Skills of Framebuilding – Frame Painted and Ready to Build
I was very excited to receive a frame sized box from the courier today and couldn’t wait to open it.
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A Week Spent with Dave Yates Learning the Skills of Framebuilding – Day 5
I started every morning by pulling my boots on and going to have a lovely cooked breakfast. The boots didn’t hurt so much now, the Elastoplast on each heel and big toe were doing their job well!
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A Week Spent with Dave Yates Learning the Skills of Framebuilding – Day 4
Bikes are not much good if you can’t attach cables for brakes and gears, it would also be nice to carry a water bottle or two. That means that day 4 was all about ‘braze-ons’ – those little guides that you pass cables through!
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A Week Spent with Dave Yates Learning the Skills of Framebuilding – Day 3
Bicycle forks… how hard can they be to make…
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A Week Spent with Dave Yates Learning the Skills of Framebuilding – Day 2
Day 2 started with a plan, more pictures, sore feet, a huge blister and a tube box still full of tubes yet to be worked on…
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A Week Spent with Dave Yates Learning the Skills of Framebuilding – Day 1
This is a little off topic, I normally keep this blog just for my SBDU Ilkeston bikes. However, I’ve just spent a fascinating week in Coningsby, Lincolnshire, with Dave Yates learning how to build a bike frame.
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A slight diversion down memory lane
While I’m saving up the pennies and trying to source more parts for the Raleigh build, I thought I would reminisce a little. One of the best memories from the many I have while working at Denton Cycles was building the Salsa bikes for Jason Mcroy.