Wheely good bike! (Giant Defy 2.5 Road Bike)

Advantages: Light, Great gears, Good looks
Disadvantages: Uncomfortable saddle, not the greatest wheels

...and I have yet to find a hill that can defeat the lowest gearing. The Tiagra system seems very reliable with shifts always finding their cogs. The lever system is based on the brake handles with a small inner lever being used to go up and the full brake handle being used for down (opposite on front cog). This soon feels very natural. Wheels The wheels provided are okay, I suspect that this is where the manufacturesrs have looked to save some money and they are the only part of the bike that I have since upgraded. For me they were a little on the heavy side and not quite free running enough. Pedals This bike was provided with toe clip pedals which I opted to have removed and replaced with some that work with cleats and proper road shoes. As I never saw the originals I can't really comment - however if you are...

thejazzyj 18.09.2009 · Read review
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Review of Giant Defy 2.5 Road Bike

Microsoft Official Xbox 360 Wireless Racing Wheel

Advantages: Very robust and firm wheel. wireless
Disadvantages: MAY STRIKE SOME AS "CHEAP" LOOKING

...This wheel comes extremely well packaged and may take you a few mintues to actually get into it but atleast this lends assurance that it will transport well when it was shipped. The packages comes in 3 separate parts: >Wheel >Pedals >Table attachement WHEEL: The wheel itself is covered in a highly durable rubber covering making it very easy to keep a grip on it, which is an important feature if like me yours hands can sweat in the middle of an intense race. The wheel also has all the buttons you would find on a normal controller and they are all intuitively placed. The X,Y, A,B buttons are placed in easy reach of the thumb so when driving they are easy reachablt. The trigger buttons are also present as large levers placed directly behind the wheel so as you can easily use them but with enough room between them and the wheel...

James.Egginton 25.12.2006 · Read review
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Review of Microsoft Official Xbox 360 Wireless Racing Wheel

GT Aggressor XC2. What a Bike for the Money

Advantages: Strong Frame and Wheels, Tyres do not let go
Disadvantages: None really!!

...Bought this bike with my work cycle to work scheme. A great buy from Halfords. Excellent speck for the price and a very strong bike. I'm 18st 10 (253 ibs) and in my opinion this bike can handle this weight easily. Great colour Black with like a Pearlesent White, Very good speck components, Shimano Deore derauillers and Sram Truvatic Crank. Hydrolic Brakes and Discs. These will stop you instantly and do tare a little time to get used to or a flight over the bars could come along. These sqeak when covered in Muck and Water for the first few occasions, but when used this disapates. Wheels are Alex DP17 rims, Strong, Maxxis Ingnitor Tyres Grip like hell. Suntour XCR forks are ok for Cross Country riding, Not a great Jump fork, but hey Im no Jumper! (I think that if yoiu are lighter than me you could have some safe landings with these...

damo1401 07.08.2009 · Read review
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Review of GT Aggressor XC2 Mountain Bike

On Yer Bike!

Advantages: Great fun, slow, Harry loves it
Disadvantages: Noisy, siren is a pain

...and says they are safe and fun for children but I was still very nervous about letting my tiny boy ride it last year. When my parents bought it into my sitting room, Harry's face was a picture. He was totally petrified of it, even more so when my dad pushed the pedal down causing the wheels to turn quickly and make a loud motorised sound! He wouldn't go near it, let alone sit on it so I was wondering how I was going to get rid of it without anyone knowing! Still, it sat in my front room for a couple of months, unloved and unused until in a fit of bravery, Harry ventured ever closer. The bravery obviously got the better of him because everyday he got closer and tried more things, and now, only a whole year on, he is a fully fledged Hells Angel. That's right, all he needs is the leathers and he's set. The bike itself is quite sturdy...

mummy2harry 01.12.2008 · Read review
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Review of Halfords Mini Racer Bike

Four wheels good.......Two wheels better

Advantages: Great stories/articles, loads of guest writers, great photography
Disadvantages: Too many adverts - but this is the case with most publications

...Two Wheels is a bike magazine aimed at real bike enthusiasts. It is a monthly magazine that is part of the visordown.com group. The Editor in Chief is Grant Leonard and columnists include ex racer Niall Mackenzie, ex racer Jamie Whitham and the Pitbull. The main features and articles of this magazine are as follows: ****Road tests**** A lot of this magazine is articles on specific bikes and testing them to their limits. The handling is tested, the comfort is tested, the acceleration is tested, the top speed is tested and, most importantly, what they are like to live with on a daily basis is tested. To keep it all legal and above board the bikes are tested on the track (for the speed and handling tests), on the drag strip (for the acceleration and top end test) and on the road (for handling and the ?real life? test...

yackers1 15.05.2009 · Read review
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Review of Two Wheels Only

Wonder Woman's Wheels. . .

Advantages: Great for cleaning them.
Disadvantages: Expensive.

...Well known, and used by the motor industry as the professional cleaning product, also recommended and approved by the majority of motor manufacturers, as well as AutoTrader, What Car, and AutoExpress. In fact, speaking of Auto Express, the Wonder wheels product is the number one selling and multiple award winning alloy wheel cleaner. Wonder wheels has won the Auto Express product honours for eleven consecutive years! OK that sounds like an advert, it is actually. I lifted it from the CarPlan site, have a look for yourself http://www.carplan.co.uk/index.cfm?page=1 Contents of cardboard box are, 500ml wheel cleaner, 1 application bristle brush and a dispensing container. This stuff is now also available in a "trigger bottle". Instructions. To use, firstly I suggest doing this just after washing the car, that way a lot of the dirt...

smudgeybabes 29.07.2008 (07.02.2009) · Read review
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Review of Wonder Wheels Cleaning Kit

The big wheel keeps on turning!

Advantages: A great attraction for Windsor
Disadvantages: none

...A few weeks ago it was the bank holiday weekend and we had friends staying so we thought we would take in some of our local attractions. Windsor is only half an hour away from where we live so we decided to head over there with the intention of taking all our children on the Royal Windsor Wheel - which was a first for us all. I had looked up the details on the website at www.royalwindsorwheel.com We could have booked our tickets in advance but I decided that, because my four year old daughter is sometimes a bit unsure of things and may well take one look at it and decide that she wasn't going on it, to risk not booking. As it was, on a Sunday lunchtime it was not busy, my daughter was quite happy and we virtually walked on straightaway as soon as we had paid. The Windsor Wheel is probably best described as a smaller version...

kingfisher111 22.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of Royal Windsor Wheel, Berkshire

"Look at my fancy newbig boy bike!

Advantages: great customer service, great quality
Disadvantages: Matching accessories not available

...a subtle steel grey with silver and black accents. Even the stabilizers and wheel rims were co-ordinated to the rest of the bike with a matching black opposed to the usual silver metal. It truly is gorgeous and my boy is so proud! One of only two suggestions I would have for Isla bikes is it would be nice to see a range of accessories such as helmets, bells etc available. Having said that, maybe that would take the focus away from just creating great bikes. ***Cost*** These are exclusive bikes and you very much get what you pay for. My 3 year old's bike cost £119 (including stabilizers) which may be more than many parents expect to pay for their kids bike. Having said that, the price tag not only comes with a safe, stylish, adaptable and sturdy bike, it also comes with a 5 year guarantee on frame and forks and a 2 year guarantee on parts...

ally2kc 30.03.2007 · Read review
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Review of Isla Bikes

The wheels on the Wii go round and round

Advantages: cheap
Disadvantages: see review

...This is a funny old product because, of course, it's not really much more than a circular piece of plastic, yet it feels so good! The Wii Wheel is a driving wheel for use with Wii games that, erm, require you to drive. The way it works is you insert the Wii remote into it (it fits very snug), and then use the whole thing to drive. The Wii remote is not included in the purchase. There is a 'B' button on the back of the wheel, operatable with your left pointy finger. The wheel cost me £6.99 on sopto.net and is the same price in Game stores around the country. Although the price seems very reasonable, it should be pointed out that standard Wii remotes are not at all practical for driving games, and really it's an additional cost that you pretty much HAVE to spend to be able to play racing games and the like, so it would have been...

bruffyboy 24.03.2009 · Read review
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Review of NINTENDO Wii Wheel - wheel

..... Or Fish On A Bicycle

Advantages: Engaging thriller
Disadvantages: Dissapointing final ending

..., more to the point so was most other people that saw it. Butterfly On A Wheel is an incredibly superior thriller, that's only weakness is its ending; and even then it's a double edged sword which is initially more impressive than you expect, and let down by the final 30 seconds, but I'll come back on this in a bit. The movie is mean and moody, with great texture to it; its multi-layered storytelling tells up to three simultaneous story strands; without being confusing. Better still this is a film that not only needs, but keeps your concentration. Within three minutes of the movie starting you get a really good vibe that everything is going to be ok, and you know you're going on the movies journey with its participants. Brosnan is incredibly intimidating, the Irish accent is a touch annoying; but he holds it together very well and is...

sghawken 21.12.2007 · Read review
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Review of Butterfly on a Wheel DVD