Now is the perfect time to talk about MERINO!

The main topic of this podcast and Blog post is  the equipment made of MERINO

Autumn has arrived, and soon winter will come... the astronomical and quite cold winter!

Personally, I'm a fan of riding outdoors 365 days a year, and I really enjoy it.

But to make cycling in a few degrees below zero enjoyable, good equipment is of utmost importance!

And now is the perfect time to talk about MERINO!

As I prepared for this podcast today, I took out most of my cycling gear.

Unnoticed, another 8 months of cycling have passed, and we are already so close to the new winter of 2023.

The only difference from the previous 8 months of cycling is that my old Garmin Edge 530 - Mando has a new owner, and during the last 8 months I am actively testing the new Garmin Edge 540 with the code name Bo.

The Nikname "Bo" is short for Bo Katan Kryze.

In short, because while I remember the full name, my efforts to pronounce Bo Katan Kryze correctly and faithfully are overwhelming. :)

The tradition is that my Garmin bicycle computers receive a Nickname related to a character from the series "The Mandalorian"

This tradition goes many centuries back to the battle against the Empire for the Force. :)

It started from my second Garmin bicycle computer model: Garmin Edge 130 with the Nickname Grogu.

You can read a detailed review of Garmin Edge 130 Grogu  in the publication in the Blog named: Garmin Edge 130 - Grogu Review by a randonneur - Part One

For TPU inner bicycle tires, I found out a little over few months ago.

It happened entirely by chance - I read about TPU tires from a comment by Ivan - a fellow cyclist, under a post in one of the cycling groups on Facebook.

I had just received my new set of Continental GP 5000 tires, and the post on Facebook was precisely about a topic that is extremely important for every cyclist - tires. :)

The colleague had posted a picture of two tiny, thin, green inner tubes and explained that he had recently gotten them and hadn't even tested them yet.

Later, another fellow cyclist, Dimitar, strongly recommended these new TPU tires to me in the Facebook chat. He said he had been using them for a year and a half:

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