Pedalling past the pain

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When confronted with back pain, the only way forward is to go back to basics, finds Iain Treloar.  For the first hour or two of a ride, all seems well. Then, like a thread unraveling from a jumper, the first ache appears and soon enough I’m undone. The early twinge spreads from the mid-back and
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Fitting outside the norm

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Iain Treloar searches for the perfect fit for the perfectly imperfect. With a heavy heart and aching body, I rode toward the clinic. As my pedals turned over, I mulled over my physical flaws; pronounced scoliosis that developed in my childhood, poorly-knit broken ribs and a chest covered in a patchwork of scars, knee pain.
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Customise your bike

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It only takes a few small adjustments  to increase your comfort and improve your bike’s performance, explains Rowan Lamont.  You and your whizz-bang off-the-shelf bicycle have already shared a few adventures: bonding as you rode into that killer head wind, agonising over the first scratch from leaning your bike against a wall, and sharing a spill negotiating wet tram tracks. It
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Which bike fit is right for you?

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Iain Treloar gets tested, prodded and probed in his search for the perfect bike fit. The bicycle is a highly accommodating machine. From a configuration of tubes and a few different sizes, it’s capable of being adjusted to more or less fit basically any rider, allowing them to pedal away in moderate comfort for as long
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Size matters

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When it comes to sizes, bikes seem to have their own mysterious rules. Jon Miller unravels the complications of sizing up a bike. In the frame It used to be simple. Traditionally, with limited choice, complicated measurements were never a problem when sizing a bike; you’d just stand astride the top tube, and if three
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