The London Bike Show

I went to the Bike Show today, as I'm sure that a number of others did.  Plenty of fancy stuff there - Boardman was launching his SLS Disc Road bike, which looked a very good piece of kit, £2000-£3000+, depending on build.  Good value, as ever with Boardman, but still a pricy ride.

But the thing that particularly struck me was on the Pinarello stand ... wait for it ... Axiom Axle Runners, at about a tenner for four.

They fit under the quick release and provide a threaded mudguard mount for a bike that hasn't got one.  So you can have proper mudguards on your race bike.  Pinarello had fitted a set of SKS mudguards to a Dogma with 25mm tyres.  Pretty tight, but decent clearance and a good fit.  The fitting at the bottom of the rear guard was very neatly fabricated by drilling a couple of small holes in the mudguard and running a thin zip-tie around the seatpost.  Hard to see, at first, but the whole arrangement was very solid.

So there you are - just what you need for Spring in the Surrey Hills!

Mark