GolfChick Rides Bikes

So I was lucky enough to travel to Whistler at the end of September for two weeks, to cut a long story short my best friend 'Buly' was planning to go and rather than go alone he invited me! It's not somewhere I'd ever really planned to go despite it being a mecca for biking, probably because I knew it was out of my reach to ever go and why hope/plan for the impossible!? I've done Les Arcs before in the French Alps but that was some years ago and I just remember concentrating on braking the whole time but I was fairly new to biking back then and I'm sure it'd be a different beast now! I'd of loved to do some other trips in the meantime but due to some circumstances, owning a dog mostly, I've not done another trip...until now! Hopefully this blog post will fill people in about some of the mistakes I made, as well as things I learnt along the way and also providing a general review of Whistler! I don't want to come across as knowing everything o...

I read a thread the other day on a forum I frequent about wide rims and whether there was any justifiable reason for the poster getting them and I read a lot of mixed opinions and a lot of debate so thought it was about time I chipped in my opinion and wrote my long term review of my setup. A little bit of background, I've previously had mavic rims before the rise of tubeless and I then converted to stans rims and have ridden on arches, crest and flow setups. Just over a year ago I read another thread (what would we do without the internet right?!) about wide rims and the reason we should all have them and frankly the video and the writing made sense to me and I started to research the rise of these carbon rim setups. For me, ignoring the stiffness and every other carbon benefit, I looked at carbon rims purely because I wanted wider rims but I was not prepared to gain the weight for the extra width. Enve rims were out straight away, every biker with the internet has probably seen ...