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Building a bike tool kit is fun. In fact, it’s a bit more than fun; it’s kind of addictive. It’s

The clocks have changed now, so it’s time to get those bike lights out. There’s nothing more important while riding during autumn and winter than making sure you’re visible on the roads, and a solid

We might have said it enough times that it's becoming a tired phrase here on Freewheel, but dont cheap out on your

We know it’s not what anyone wants to hear, but we’re in October now and those 20-degree sunny days are definitely behind us, which

If there’s one skill that it’s fundamental to master as a cyclist, it’s the ability to fix a puncture. That’s because, just like death and taxes, punctures are one of life’s inevitabilities when you ride bikes. You might go for months without one, maybe even years, but eventually misfortune will catch up with you and

When Shimano debuted their Digital Integrated Intelligence (Di2) system back in 2009 it really changed the game in terms of shifting on a bike. It also started a great debate like all new things in cycling - disc brakes on road bikes, anyone - because there’s nothing cyclists of all varieties like more than to have an argument about whether

The Tour de France is one of sport's great spectacles. Three weeks where cycling fans everywhere spend days glued to the TV, desperate to see what's going to happen next, punctuated by visits to every online bike shop to covet the latest and greatest kit as-used by the best road riders on the planet. But the thing is, those pros don't pay for their

Want somewhere new to ride? We asked some of our ambassadors about their favourite places to ride in the UK. This is what they had to say. 

As announcements go, this one has us at Freewheel pretty excited: Vittoria tyres are now available on the site. Vittoria make some of the very finest tyres in the world with huge wins to their name in races like the Tour de France, Giro d’Italia, Vuelta a Espana, Paris-Roubaix and Milano-Sanremo to name just a few. They’ve also hoovered up