GMBN Meets the Starling Spur
Loads of travel, high-pivot suspension and a gearbox all make the Starling Cycles Spur an absolute monster through technical terrain. GMBN’s Doddy popped in to Starling Cycles HQ to learn
Loads of travel, high-pivot suspension and a gearbox all make the Starling Cycles Spur an absolute monster through technical terrain. GMBN’s Doddy popped in to Starling Cycles HQ to learn
What’s that, ANOTHER new Starling breaking cover?! Joe joined Jonesy for a chat about the new Starling Cycles prototype. More info coming soon!
Introducing the all new high-pivot, gearbox equipped Starling Spur. Quite simply the best descender we’ve ever made.
Anyone who knows Joe and has talked about bikes with him will know he talks a lot about CushCore.
Reece Richards. What a guy! Commonly known as BoostedBryn, Reece is from Bristol in the UK and I’ve been meaning to try and shoot something with him for a while
Joe tackles the fork offset debate and doesn’t reckon that there’s much in it.
Joe wades into the wheel size debate and reckons it doesn’t make too much of a difference bar one key element.
Bike weight vs wheel weight. Which one really makes the difference? Joe weighs in.
Joe considers the pros and cons of brazing and TIG welding steel tubes for his bikes.
Joe runs you through how his philosophy of ‘fast’ has created the Starling bikes you ride.
Joe recommends you move and regrease your seat post regularly to save it getting stuck via galvanic corrosion.
Joe talks why you’ll never see any standards he doesn’t feel are the best for the job on any Starling bikes.
Joe McEwan explains why he won’t be selling any unpainted Starling Cycles frames any time soon.
We often see comments that our seat stays are too thin and likely to snap. Let’s explore why that’s not the case.
We often see comments saying that flexible swing arms damage rear shocks. Let’s explore why that’s nonsense.
Confused about low mountain bike bottom brackets and worried about pedal strikes? Read on to find out why the two might not be as linked as you might think.
Unsure about how to choose the right Starling Cycles frame? Here’s how.
Starling Cycles started making bikes when the “long, low, slack” geometry movement was in its infancy. With early prototypes, we experimented with a range of geometry configurations. We tried super
