Assembling a Mountain Bike

Hoorah! Today my new Mountain bike arrived. It’s been 2 weeks since ordering and I’ve waited patiently for it to come. I wasn’t in any particular rush but once it came today I couldn’t wait to get home and get it assembled.
5 stars to Wiggle. The bike was packaged very well in 2 boxes. The [...]

Buying a bike mail order – Lessons learned

Anyone who reads this regularly – if indeed there is anyone who reads this regularly – will know I recently bought a new Focus Raven Expert from Wiggle.
The Focus range aren’t available yet in Australia and certainly not in Perth, so I didn’t have a local price to compare the deal against, but it felt [...]

New bike

Been pondering getting a new mountain bike for some time. I have an old one bought in 2002 when to be honest I knew nothing about bikes at all. I just knew I NEEDED full suspension. I bought a GT i-Drive 3.0 and then rode on paved roads. Ho Hum.
Now, I live in Perth and [...]