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Cheers everybody
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…
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Like pigs in shit
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,…
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At speed, at ease.
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…
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Brooks Factory Tour
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…
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All the gear and absolutely no idea.
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,…
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Dumb apes with Hands®
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…
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Meeting Bambi
Midway through summer last year, my girlfriend (Ellie) went to visit her Nan and Grandad for the weekend. There was no space for me to stay with her so I stayed at home – no biggie. I had no plans, the weather was looking alright and I needed to nurse the remnants of an xtra-lite…
