Category Listing: Bikes and accessories

You may already know there are several CTC members on the committee of the Cycle Hayling campaign group. Cycle Hayling exists to promote cycling on Hayling Island and to help bring about changes to the cycling infrastructure.

You can read more about the Cycle Hayling projects here.

We've written some articles you might be interested in. In particular:

• Articles about overcoming obstacles to cycling
• Articles about basic bike maintenance

If you'd like to support Cycle Hayling's activities - you don't have to live on Hayling - then please register your support. In return, we'll send you an occasional newsletter keeping you up-to-date with what's happening.

The bike I ride through the warmer months is a road/race bike with drop handlebars. You can see a picture of it on the right.

The bars came wrapped in white bar tape. That's a pretty daft idea because they get grubby really quickly. You can see they are pretty bad in the picture, but they got worse.

I'd not replaced bar tape before but, having read a few articles on the web, I decided I could do it myself. This article describes how I got on.

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