Cycling

I’ve got a Trek Mamba 29er - see my Trek / Fisher Mamba 29er (2011) page for more info.

Notes

  • Bicycle tyre and tube sizing - Bicycle tyre and tube sizing is ridiculously confusing. Sheldon Brown has a comprehensive explanation and comparison on his site at Tire Sizing Systems. Here’s a table of sizing from recent tyres and inner tubes I bought (Schwalbe AV17 and AV19 tubes,...
  • Bicycle seat positioning - Knees hurting? Perhaps you need to adjust you saddle position. Seat too high – or too low. Multiply your inside leg measurement in cms by .885 to get correct centre of b/b to top of saddle distance. Also important is saddle set-back. Roughly speaki...
  • Bicycle spoke sizing - So I had some broken spokes and thought I’d replace them. There must be standard sizing right?.. Wrong. It seems to be ridiculously complicated to determine what kind of replacement spoke you need. Even armed with the make and model of my hub and rim (...
  • Bicycle notes - Some notes I made while researching what bike to buy, so it’s a bit scrappy and probably out of date now. I got most of this info by reading over forum and opinion posts (like the Mountain Bike Review forums and the Bike Forums), so I don’t know for su...
  • Trek / Fisher Mamba 29er (2011) - I bought a 29er Specifically a Gary Fisher Mamba 29er. It’s served me well on my London commute (8 miles of roads and commons/parks), at least it has since I swapped out those chunky tyres for narrower ones, after losing the front end one too many tim...
  • All-terrain (hybrid) bicycle tyres - I’ve got a 29er which came with ridiculous off road tyres. Great for the muddy scrub and wet grass of the parks and commons in London, but entirely inappropriate for road riding - I’ve already lost the front end three times on this bike, which is more ...

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