On The Riad - Where to Ride Marrakech

The idea to ride in Marrakech came to me quite by accident. I’d always been interested in the place, ever since I met my future wife back in 1989. She had a travel brochure of Morocco on her bedside table. I’d never really considered going there before, having more of a preference for India and South East Asia. Nevertheless the pictures of deserts, the minarets and the people wearing their traditional jellaba robes were enticing in the extreme and I determined to visit it one day.


A Touch Painful on Re-entry

Uprooting your existing life and relocating anywhere takes some degree of readjusting, as you find somewhere to live, get your bearings in your new surrounds, find the essentials, such as the closest and best coffee shop, settle into a new job and meet new people. It’s not an easy task, but one that you take in your stride as you embrace the challenge of the new and undiscovered.


Why We Support One80TC

If you’re looking to combine your love of cycling with a worthwhile cause, you can chose from a lot of great charity rides these days. New rides are being started all over Australia.


The Write Stuff

 Fancy yourself as a bit of a writer? Well here's your chance to get yourself into print! We have $360 worth of cycling books to give away to the best creative writer we can find.


DIY Training

Want to improve? Want a training program that is tailored especially for you? Damian Grundy shows how to structure your own basic training schedule.


DIY Bottom Bracket Overhaul

There is an alternative if you want to breathe new life into your existing bottom bracket. Modern external type bottom brackets rely on commonly available industrial bearings (get them from any bearing/ engineering shop). A pair of replacement bearings will cost around $30—less than half the cost of a new bottom bracket. The tricky part is removing the bearings from the alloy cups that they are pressed into.


Why Go 1x9?

A good 2x9 set-up lessens the chain angles and related problems while providing a gear range that can be very close to that of a triple. A 1x9 drivechain goes further again, leaving just a single chainring—say goodbye to chain suck and never get stuck in the big ring half way up a hill again!