Reviews & Guides
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January 25, 2019
Winter can be pretty depressing, especially for a cyclist. All that cold weather really sucks! But fear not, because Tweeks are coming to the rescue with a boat-load of indoor training goodness! Turbo trainers, bicycle rollers – you name it, we’ve got it! Besides which, indoor cycling be fun at any time of the year so read on if you want to find out what it’s all about!
What are the benefits of indoor cycling?
Indoor training is great – not just because you won’t get rained on (which in the UK is of obvious importance), but also because it can help with techniques like high intensity interval training (HIIT).
With HIIT you’ll
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January 22, 2019
Riding through the winter can be pretty grim. It’s often
cold, wet and even snowing – and that’s just the weather! Roads and trails can
turn into sheet ice or complete mud baths, making it difficult to even stay
upright on your bike, let alone get up to a decent speed. While it might sound
more appealing to just grab the duvet and stay in bed, with the right cycle
clothing and equipment riding in can, believe it or not, be fun!While there’s not much you can about conditions
underneath your tyres, you can get kitted out in the right cycling clothes that
laughs in the face of extreme winter weather. To help get you on the right
track, we’ve put together a guide on what to look for, as well a few personal
staff favourites to help get you out through the cold winter months. -
January 11, 2019
Over the last few weeks we’ve looked at how to keep your bike running and looking like new through winter, as well as our top clothing picks and our favourite lights. All of these things will help get you through winter, but what about the bike itself? Take one look at your “summer” tyres or go for a ride sans mudguards and tell us it was fun. It wasn’t fun,
was it? You got covered in muck, slid all over the place, possibly crashed and your brake pads turned to mush and didn’t really slow you down much, if at all.Oh, and if you went out on your road bike, you perhaps
didn’t think about the effect the conditions would have on your gorgeous carbon
wheels. The less said about the better, as given the price the consequences can
be wince-inducing to say the least… In this guide -
January 03, 2019
Tweeks’ very own Ali has been busy scribbling again – and this time it wasn’t on a plaster cast! Ali has been debating the benefits of going over to the clipless side for a while, and well, he finally took the plunge! Read on to see what he thought of it – here’s Ali:
From the very first day I swung my leg over a bike, I have always ridden on flat pedals – and I always swore that I would never in a million years contemplate riding in clips, SPDs, spuds or whatever else you would like to call them. I feel a change coming on though – as I am getting older (26 :) ), wiser and have taken up trail riding (with a goal of Gravity Enduro laser-sighted in my mind) and recently donned the Lycra and joined the masses on the roads. This means that I am now toying with the idea of breaking this lifetime promise and going clipped-in on the mountain bike.
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December 06, 2018
Keeping your bike safe and secure from would be thieves
isn’t something any of us like to think about, but the fact of the matter is
many unscrupulous individuals see a bike as an easy target that they can
quickly move on. As such, they’ll go to great lengths to try and prize your
bike from your possession when you’re not looking.To combat this it’s important to make their life as
difficult as possible whether your bike is stored at home or out on the street
and it’s a task worth doing to keep your pride and joy in your own hands. By
investing in the right cycle security measures for you, and thinking long and
hard about where you choose to store and secure your bike, you can deter these
would-be criminals from pinching it.Before you rush out and buy the biggest bike