Topeak QR RX Beam Rack With Side Rails Features: Specifically designed for sleek road bikes. Turn your road racer into a weekend tourer with this lightweight rack. It mounts to... more
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Topeak QR RX Beam Rack With Side Rails Features: Specifically designed for sleek road bikes. Turn your road racer into a weekend tourer with this lightweight rack. It mounts to your seat post with ease. 15lb carrying capacity. AL-6061 T-6 aluminium construction. Use with RX-type Trunk Bags only. Supplied with or without detachable side frames Includes shims to fit all seatposts Integral bungee cords Hinged seat post clamp with M6 stainless steel bolts Compact size; perfect for road bikes Weight: 380/390gms Available in: E-type for normal sized frames V-type for large frames.
Advantages: Price, Ride, Street Cred !! Disadvantages: Hard seat for long rides !
...Having used an MBK Raider hartdail for the last 10 years, and seeing all this new suspension technology coming in, I was tempted to purchase a new Mountain Bike. After looking at all the options :- hardtail, front suspension only, front and rear suspension, I decided to go for the Claud Butler Karve Full Suspension Bike. The price was £400, and for this you get an all alloy frame and rear swingarm, front Suntour MG81 with preload adjusters and disc mounts, rear RS-I alloy shock, Alivio 24 speed with Acera STI shifters, front Grimeca cable disk brake, rear Vuelta alloy 'v' brake, Tioga aheadset, Vuelta tyres and Airline 1 rims, Zoom stem, QR front and rear, QR seatpost plus Tioga Multi Control 2 seat with Kevlar sided panels (which can be a bit painful on long rides! ) (phew !!). The ride itself it very lively, giving great control...
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Advantages: Good variety of high quality tools in a compact and lightwieght package Disadvantages: Tyre levers are average, no ring spanners for older bikes
...Why would you want one?
Multi-tools have been around for almost ever - I have a turn of the century mutli-tool, complete with knives, a hook for doing up bootlaces, and amusingly a spike for removing stones from horses hooves.
The Hexus has a similar design to the ubiquitous swiss army knife, although rather than blades it has allen keys, and screwdrivers. The Hexus is your get out of jail free card when you need to carry out an emergency trail/road side repair.
What does it do?
While it is possible to use this for general maintenance, I generally prefer to use proper tools for this purpose. MInd you, popped in a pocket, I find it handy for tweaking when test riding the bike after an overhaul.
On modern bikes, you will come across 3 types of bolt/screw.
1) allen head - the vast majority of bolts.
2) philips/slot head...
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My sister has owned BeneFit’s High Beam for a while now and although she said how good she thought it was I never thought it looked quite so good on my skin as it is slightly darker. A few months back they had 3 for the price of 2 on BeneFit products in more
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