I have been riding my Topstone for 6 months now. It has been my ‘do everything’ bike. Commuter bike, road bike and gravel/adventure/cross bike (whatever you want to call it!) and it always brings a big smile to my face. Read More
Andy & Sammy’s Tour Divide AdventureNormally a difficult and demanding task on a standard bike, some brave it on gravel bikes, others on mountain bikes, Andy and Sammy have chosen to make the adventure even harder for themselves by doing it on their Cannondale tandem and riding it South to North, self-supported! Read More
Last Tuesday we headed down to Leicester to visit Giant’s impressive UK HQ to learn the ins and outs of their Powerfit bike fitting system. Read More
Riding mountain bikes to me is about fun, riding with your friends, keeping fit, being outside in the mountains and switching off and getting back to nature. Read More
Last week I was lucky enough to be invited to SRAM’s R and D headquarters in Schweinfurt, Germany for an exclusive product launch preview. Read More
Thinking about buying a cross bike? You don’t necessarily need to be planning a CX race season to warrant owning one of these bikes. Traditionally the Cannondale Caad X has been purchased for that reason, but in the last few years attitudes and riding styles have changed. If you want a bike to do a bit of everything on including some really fun offroad riding, leafy rooty forest tracks, rough back lanes, cobbled streets, gravely cyclepaths, as well as some tarmac miles, whatever you throw at it, Read More
Ever wondered whether an expensive bike is really worth the money? So have I! Having recently purchased a beautiful Juliana Furtado (from £3000 – £5000 price bracket), and invested in their C carbon frame, with S spec build kit, which to me is a pretty ‘posh’ bike (having always ridden aluminium frames), at the back of my mind I had always wondered whether the upgrade to Juliana’s CC frame would have really made that much difference for the extra money? Read More
Cannondale have long created bikes that push the boundaries of conformity, what’s sensible and sometimes what’s commercially viable. Read More
uliana Bicycles is a relatively new women’s brand for us here at Alf Jones Cycles for 2016, the first time we’ve had a top end carbon women’s MTB brand in the range, so an exciting progression for the shop. Read More