Spin All Star Triathletes: Matt Fisher
Fleshing out our roster of top triathletes, and helping to balance the gender equality in the current SAS line up is our newest member, Matt Fisher. Matt’s a go getting sort of chap who likes nothing better than to jump off a gruelling long haul flight and get straight on his bike. And then go […]
Vintage Cobbled Classic
Koppenberg op de Kemmelberg: How the Quick Girls Spin in Flanders.
Last Sunday in Flanders Fields we were lucky to be part of a vintage edition of the Gent Wevelgem cobbled classic.
We got frozen, soaking wet, delayed by level crossings and blown clean off the road by the brutal cross winds. But we weren’t even the ones […]
Spin All Star Climbers: Sol Oliver
As we’ve already shown in our SAS feature on Neil Ronketti //#002, we’re not just a bunch of incredibly young, talented and upcoming athletes in the Spin All Stars. Another of our founder members is Simon Oliver and he’s so grown up already that he even built a modern glassy extension to his quite enormous and […]
Spin All Star Riders: Jenny Crouch
For the 2015 season, we’re really pleased that we’ve been able to significantly step up our support of women’s road cycling.
Along with Flanders based road racer Dani Christmas we’re delighted that the superfast ladies of Team Velosport Montegrappa are spinning our X-Series carbon Fat Boys at elite women’s races across the continent and back at […]
Spin All Star Climbers: Neil Ronketti
The Spin All Stars aren’t just a bunch of incredibly talented and determined young athletes in their prime. Some of the very earliest members of the crack team of riders, racers and customers that we know as the SAS are a bit more, er, experienced. Maybe less fit. But members of the SAS nonetheless, and […]
Spin All Star Triathletes: Catherine Jameson
For the 2015 season, we’re really pleased that we’ve been able to significantly step up our support of women’s road cycling. Along with Flanders based road racer Dani Christmas we’re delighted that the superfast ladies of Team Velosport Montegrappa are spinning our X-Series carbon Fat Boys around the UK elite women’s scene.And we’re truly delighted that we finally get […]
Spin All Star Racers: Chris Dymond
In 2014 we began a partnership with our very own tame racing driver, Chris Dymond. Being fast for a living means it’s never easy to catch up with Chris, but recently I managed to spin around a few laps of the wet and windy Silverstone F1 circuit with him. Whilst there I quizzed him on just what […]
Spin All Star Riders: Dani Christmas
Since the start of 2014 season it has been my personal pleasure to be able to help former Commonwealth Junior 800m running champion Dani Christmas (@Dani_Christmas) in her quest to become a full time bike racer.
Spin has supported Dani as both bike and wheel sponsor, and it has been truly rewarding to follow her progress from virtual […]
Anyone can build wheels
I’ve heard many
people claim that building wheels is an art. As someone who has built a few, actually I don’t
think it is.To me, building wheels is all mathematics and craft. And
when you build to pretty tight tolerances and high tensions it can also be quite
painful. If you can count to 4 or 8 and […]
Great Wheels: Why the headlines never tell the whole story
Headline specs don’t tell the whole story – not even half of it!
In the crowded high performance wheel market it’s all about the attention
grabbing headline specs.
The weight of a pair down
to the gram, the depth, the spoke count, the price. Carbon or alloy? However
these headlines are a lazy way to define a pair of […]
