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Having just recently sustained an injury, a dislocated middle finger to be exact, I am in the process of injury rehabilitation. As an athlete training for the world championships in November, being injured has been a mentally challenging experience. In saying that, I’m not alone in my experience, but I wanted to share the tools and strategies I have used to manage my situation for anyone else in a similar position.Injuries carry with them a lot o …

This is a question often asked, with lots of different answers. To some people, your helmet should be replaced after a big crash, to others, when it is wrecked, or even when it starts to fall apart. The fact is that every time you crash and hit your head your helmet has done its job, so it depends how many times it can do that job again. To best check that it will do the same job next time it is very important that you check the type and conditio …

The Kask Infinity is one of the most aerodynamic helmets in cycling. I purchased one of these helmets a few months ago and it is the most comfortable helmet I've used. It's great for road racing and track because of the little sliding bit on top of the helmet, the mobile aerator. This helps you control the amount of ventilation where needed, for example, when you are climbing up a hill you would have the sliding device open, then when you descend …

They say things happen in threes and this was certainly my recent run of luck with flat tyres. You get pretty good at something when you're doing it that often, but you also become acutely aware of whether the tools you are working with are good, or not so good.I’ve been seriously frustrated with inflators for my CO2 canisters in the past. They don’t puncture the canister properly, they go off before you can even press down on the valve, etc. In …