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Framebuilding with Mark Barfield

by Julia & Sean Lally | Aug 9, 2021 | Uncategorized

In this week’s pod we have invited Mark Barfield back to discuss his framebuilding business and to look deeper into manufacturing standards in the bike industry. We also discuss the relative velocities of wild boar and eBikes!...

Olympic Special – Team GB’s track bikes

by Julia & Sean Lally | Aug 2, 2021 | Uncategorized

As the track cycling events for the Tokyo 2020 (sic!) Olympics start today we are releasing the audio from a CSA Membership webinar in late 2019. Sean speaks to Dimitris Katsanis about his revolutionary design for Team GB and the development of this bike with...

Tour de France Bikes with Dimitris Katsanis

by Julia & Sean Lally | Jun 28, 2021 | Uncategorized

As the Tour starts we catch up with our friend, Dimitris Katsanis from Metron Engineering ADDITIVE-ENGINEERING to find out about the intricacies in the design of the new Pinarello Dogma F bikes. PINARELLO. As ever, many mainstream media outlets will have missed the...

Inside Big (Bike) Tech with Mark Barfield

by Julia & Sean Lally | Jun 21, 2021 | Uncategorized

Who do you turn to when you want an insider’s view on UCI tech rules, life as a workshop and race mechanic and what people are saying in the Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry? Introducing Mark Barfield. The man with more hats than, well, Johnny Two...

Transmission Design and Sram AXS Rival

by Julia & Sean Lally | Jun 14, 2021 | Uncategorized

This week John Galloway rejoins Sean for a look at whether to buy the new Sram Rival AXS groupset for his bike. Rather than rehash press releases and a slew of in depth internet articles we decided to take a fairly in depth look at the design and manufacture of...

Introducing Northroad Cycles

by Julia & Sean Lally | Jun 7, 2021 | Uncategorized

Northroad Cycles have established a well loved and respected high end bike brand based in Manchester, England. We were interested in where a small, family bike company sits in the modern marketplace of internet only mega-brands and companies that employ 100’s of...