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The Indy Cyclist Bike Bros, the 13 time winner of “Canada’s best bike shops” award is now closed. Thanks Cochrane for 23 years of business .

Graham is now a YouTube celebrity reviewing bikes and talking about bikes at The Indy Cyclist. "One of Canada's Best Bike Shops", every year since 2013 (CanadianCyclist.com). This award sums up the effort to provide great bikes, great advice and follow up with great service. Big City Selection with small town personal service.

10/10/2026

Wow! Godzy going god mode!

I’m loving the messages from people who are shocked to see me on E. It’s something I never would have imagined either. W...
10/06/2026

I’m loving the messages from people who are shocked to see me on E. It’s something I never would have imagined either. While running the shop, if I was able to ride 6 hours in a week I was thrilled and there was no way you could pry me off my bike for those precious rides..
Then as “end of pro deal days” approached, I figured I’d grab an ebike with a vague idea that it might be useful for access to trail building areas that would be pretty brutal dragging Macleods or chainsaws to on my mebike..
Then after the ebike sat for a month because I had zero interest in it, I tried it and realized how much of a training tool it could be. I’ve struggled to do base miles: can’t stand the trainer and even on a gravel bike to fight the urge to push hard on climbs is impossible. My fitness suffered. Great VO2 from bouncing my heart rate of the limit multiple times per ride, but FTP sucked from my riding habits and getting worse because of age. I have no durability so ride days over an hour and I’m suffering: especially with cramps: don’t get me started on how full of s**t I think the electrolytes myth might be..
Now that I can imagine a wide open calendar to ride bikes, I can also imagine digging a deep hole where my fitness goes to s**t because I don’t get any recovery time, and no sub anaerobic rides: enter the Emtb..
When I realized I could go for a 2 hour ride, get 3 fast descents, work on my descent skills and my highest heart rate would be reached during the descents: that was exciting..
So, ironically, the ebike may play a role in me finally improving my fitness to be able to imagine racing enduro or BCBR again (and not on an ebike) without it being miserable… the ebike will hopefully help me get fit enough to not need the ebike.

This thing is a piece of art shaped like a bicycle. I honestly bought this because I was in love with the polished raw a...
09/30/2026

This thing is a piece of art shaped like a bicycle. I honestly bought this because I was in love with the polished raw aluminum… so I justified purchasing it as my freeride/park bike. I don’t suspect the dudes at Esker Cycles designed it for that, but chuck a Ride FOX Bike 38 fork at it, Race Face Performance Products Turbine wheels, MichelinBicycle enduro/dh tires and the new Shimano MTB XT brakes and drivetrain and and it really does turn this into a short travel freeride bike ready for whatever hucking a 145/160mm travel bike can handle…
I guess I’ll have to start practicing for Redbull Rampage 2027 and hope by then they have a 55+ Pre Beginner class.

Have I mentioned my love of wheel building? How’s about my love of fine quality bits like Industry Nine hydra hubs, Garb...
09/13/2026

Have I mentioned my love of wheel building? How’s about my love of fine quality bits like Industry Nine hydra hubs, Garbaruk Bike Components cassettes, Maxxis Tires, GALFER BIKE - Official rotors, Stan's rims & Sapim spokes..
These are for Andrea. Hope she likes’em.

I’ve been feeling the pressure… get a video up on the YouTube machine to show I’ve doubled me effort from 1% to 2% in cr...
09/12/2026

I’ve been feeling the pressure… get a video up on the YouTube machine to show I’ve doubled me effort from 1% to 2% in creating something worth watching. Go check out my Great Gazoo head talking about this Giant Bicycles at www.YouTube.com/ Giant Bicycle Canada

This is going to be a challenge for a non-techy person. A strategy to self film to add more visual interest (and illustr...
09/06/2026

This is going to be a challenge for a non-techy person. A strategy to self film to add more visual interest (and illustrate some ride impressions) to bike reviews and other content… today was trying things with the GoPro and quite the letdown… that’ll be relegated to POV footage. On the bright side, I got multiple laps of some favourite sections of trail and turned a 1hour loop into 2hours and got some trail running in ;)

Well, Bike Bros is now closed. Thank you to customers, staff and suppliers over the last 23 years of business. Being abl...
09/04/2026

Well, Bike Bros is now closed. Thank you to customers, staff and suppliers over the last 23 years of business. Being able to make a living while being immersed in the bike business has been a dream come true.

As many have asked what I'm up to next... officially we're calling it retirement but... I feel like I've got a pile to share with people about bikes so I'm carrying on and hoping followers of the shop want to follow along too.

I will be focusing on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/) but will also carry on with the other Social Media (like Facebook & Instagram) under this new name.

I'm not trying to sell anything. Just offering bike reviews, bike industry thoughts and general cycling information I think is interesting.

Don’t mind me… just over here building personal dream bikes..This is my Freeride bike… because I’ll never freeride anyth...
08/31/2026

Don’t mind me… just over here building personal dream bikes..
This is my Freeride bike… because I’ll never freeride anything requiring more than 145mm rear, 160mm front of squish.
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Otherwise, piles of new Shimano bits including Saint Pedals… which look amazing. Shimano Bike the Cane Creek Cycling Components kitsuma shock should be fun to play with too. I already know I like the Esker Cycles Orion suspension design from my time on the Rowl. This is gonna be rad!

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