North Yorkshire Cycling Blog

REVIEW: Ay-Up lights. How the Aussies do it!

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Bike lights. Let’s be honest, they hardly feature high up on your list of kit you want to buy. In fact for us at least they are firmly on the list of things you ‘need’ rather than things you ‘want’ and not in the same way that you ‘need’ a new Colnago!!  However we need to put a small caveat in there as about 3 years ago we came across Ay-Up lights whilst out on a ride with some friends and these Australian beauties have remained elusive to us until now, but very much on our ‘want’ list.

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Posted in Reviews | Tagged bikelights, helmetlights

New cycle event supported by Yorkshire’s oldest bike retailer

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All Terrain Cycles, which dates back to 1907 and has superstores near Bradford and in Wetherby, has announced that it will be one of the main sponsors of one of the region’s premier cycling events, Ripley Castle Cyclocross, which, following the success of the inaugural event last year, will again take place on New Year’s Day.

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Posted in Events & rides | Tagged allterraincycles, harrogatenova, ripleycastle, yorkshirecyclocross

REVIEW: More great lights from Knog

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Regular readers of our blog and reviews will know we are huge fans of the Australian brand Knog. For years they’ve been providing simple yet highly effective products all wrapped up in quirky but highly effective designs.

 

Last year we reviewed the Blinder Road 2 and Road R lights and we loved them. In fact the Blinder R remains our favourite rear light of them all.

 

So naturally we were keen to get our hands on some of the newer products in the range and this year we’ve got the Blinder Road 3, Blinder Arc 1.7 and Blinder Arc 5.5 in for review. So let’s get cracking starting with the Road 3.

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Posted in Reviews | Tagged bike lights, knog lights, night riding

Cycling Cafe in Thirsk

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Whilst the Tour may have been and gone from our region in 2014 there are no signs of the cycling buzz slowing down (here at least). As result there are more and more cycling themed cafes opening up, places where it’s acceptable to be sat in lycra and where piling your bikes up outside isn’t treated with the sort of contempt usually saved for vandalism!

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REVIEW: Ox Pasture Hall – Scarborough

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Here at North Yorkshire Cycling we have to admit that we probably spend the lion’s share of our riding time in the Yorkshire Dales purely because of convenience and the constraints of work week to week. So when the guys over at Ox Pasture Hall just outside of Scarborough invited us to come and stay a night in their luxury 4 start country house hotel we took it as a chance to do some more exploring over by the coast.

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Posted in Reviews | Tagged hotelyorkshire, oxpasturehall, scarboroughhotel

REVIEW: Shutt VR Isobel (ladies) Jersey

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More often than not new clothing comes in from season to season, typically with a few extra features that may or may not have a dramatic effect on its performance and with some minor design changes very much in keeping with a particular brand. Because of this (again) on most occasions when out in a new jersey for example, it goes un-noticed.

 

Regular readers will know we have always favoured Shutt VR products in previous views so when we received the new Isobel Ladies Jersey in the post our female testers started to get excited.

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Posted in Reviews | Tagged cycling jersey, ladies cycle clothing, shutt

REVIEW: Actif 6.0 handbuilt wheels

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What’s more exciting (bike wise) than a new set of wheels? Aside of getting a whole new bike, a new set of seep section wheels is probably the most desired upgrade and as a result the ‘which wheels should I buy?’ is probably the most contested post on cycling club facebook pages across the country.

 

So when our friends over at Baldwin Titanium Bikes gave us a call inviting us to come over and test their new ‘Actif’ range of wheels we jumped at the chance.

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Posted in Reviews | Tagged actif, carbonwheels, deepsectionwheels

REVIEW: Multipower Fruit Power bars

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Let’s face it, whilst we are all too happy to spend thousands each year on bike related stuff that really has little to no impact on a Sunday club run or sportive, the one area that promises the biggest performance gain – Nutrition, is still often the most overlooked. We’ve all been guilty of stuffing our pockets with whatever we have available at home or simply going for whatever energy bars the local bike shop sells without any real consideration or testing to make sure it’s what our bodies actually need. After all, we are all different and just as we all have our preference with regards to bikes and kit, our bodies naturally have a preference to certain foods and we owe it to ourselves to find what’s best for us.

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Posted in Reviews | Tagged cycle nutrition, energy bars, sports nutrition