Category: Blog
-
For the Heads. The pre-order for the HBC logo caps is now up on the store. Hope you enjoy ’em. We made a promo vid too to gas you all up.
-
Surprise. Easy everyone – It’s been a minute. The Hands® Artistic Research Department (also known as H.A.R.D) has been back it again. More details and images are coming down the pipe but we thought it’d be nice to pique some interest. The pre-order details will be up soon so stay locked.
-
Hands® turned 1 today – officially, not publicly. It was the day the first lot of stickers arrived and we’d decided to go for a little ride around the city as i’d just quit my job, it was my birthday and my best mate had come up for the day to get some coffee/beers. I…
-
I’ve spent so long deliberating over what to write alongside photos from this trip, and I honestly have no idea why. It’s not like it wasn’t fun or hard to recount, but more of a ‘why bother you with the detail’. The images do enough of the work that I thought the writing would do,…
-
A guest post by Ellie Brown. A couple of weeks ago, I overcame something of a bike riding hurdle that I had come up against over the past year: cycling at speed. For the first time since getting a bike last summer, I found myself going faster than I had before, cycling at speed but…
-
Before I’d figured out the name for what you now know as Hands®, I knew that whatever it was going to eventually be called had to be human. I felt that there would be no sense whatsoever in it existing as a bike club, if I didn’t acknowledge that it was hand-built by some imperfect…
-
Good morning class, and welcome to Biker Basics 101. Today’s lesson will be more Hands® on than previous – taking notes is encouraged but not required. Today we will be covering the basic gear, equipment and kit that you might find useful as a Bike Rider©. None of this stuff is essential in any way,…
-
“What do you mean I need a ticket?!” Panic in the group chat. Uh oh, that’s our ride gone. “Jack joined the waiting list this morning and got one within the hour, just try it” Anyone would have thought we were off to see Oasis. “Why would you need tickets for a bike ride? I’ll…
-
Hello everyone. Welcome if you’re new, welcome back if you’re not. I’m writing to you from the comfort of my bed – was on a big ride round Cambridge and its surrounding hamlets yesterday with Brooks, the saddle makers. I’m knackered but had a lot of fun, blog post incoming. I had to get up…
-
Green Space® based caffeination . There was always going to be something a bit mentally ambitious about trying to convince your friends to stand around a gas stove in the woods with you at 8:00am on a Sunday morning. And considering we’d never done this before, I think we struck gold. – Coffee outside is…
