Cyclist Magazine

Pete’s custom-built Legend

As the man who dreamed up Cyclist and launched it as editor in 2012, Pete has long been a champion of cycling innovation – so long as it involves making bikes more comfortable for his ageing body parts.

I am a bike-fitter’s nightmare. Whenever I have been for a fitting, the fitter has started out confidently enough by making a few adjustments to their jigs, but then they emerge from my inside leg and can’t believe their goniometers. The problem is my proportions –

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