And how to bag those elusive KOM and QOMs I love my Garmin Edge 500. It’s a fantastic bit of kit, logging my every move on the bike, recording my speed, heart rate and cadence. I’ve enjoyed charting my progress across the wrinkled profiles of Google Earth and seeing real improvements in my performance over set courses. It’s all good stuff, but after a couple years of uploads, that initial wow factor was sta ...

If, like me, you have ever sold a pair of road wheels or MTB wheels on ebay or a cycling forum, and have been asked to ship them via courier you will have been faced with the dilemma of how you pack them. Ring any bells? Essentially you have two fragile 'flying saucers' that don't fit together and have their widest and most vulnerable point at the centre. They don't stack & they don't balance. I've lost ...