Picked up a new toy today (yes, I was the guy that made that comment about "one decent bike") anyway this one has 27" wheels with a 6-speed freewheel, and...

My Utopia Kranich has much lower torque ratings than my other bikes. None of my torque wrenches went that low but on Friday I bought a bike specific BBB Torque...

Sheldon writes of frames being large, medium, small in reference to changing seat tube only. Until proportional frames were introduced from Japan wherein top...

I've got a TREK city bike with 26 1.95 Tioga City Slicker tires on it. Looking at other tires. Anyone have experience with the Michelin Pilot City tires?...

This isn't a tread vs no tread question for performance. That's been done to death. I'm more curious how different treads throw off water. I took the fenders...

Is there any way to pull crank arms from a square taper bb without a crank puller? I know it's cheap, but I hate buying tools I'll use only once. Thanks.

Hello, I was changing a shifter cable recently on my Ultegra equipped road bike. when looking at the cable housings I noticed two different types of metal...

Is there any risk of warping a rim or such if I'm removing spokes from a wheel, completely? I need to swap rims between wheelsets, so the bad rim I don't...

The plain plastic version in either black or white for $50-75 online. Probably thanx to the fixed gear hipsters, gawd bless 'em as I can't. I've never had an...

This is bad: http://i1.tinypic.com/505ukc2.jpg Two steps (color and model) toward good: http://failblog.org/2009/09/08/off-road-rig-fail/ Cheers, Carl...

I have a Vista laptop and an oldish Polar S610 HRM. Can I easily get these 2 to talk to each other? I've downloaded the free Polar Precision software. I...

I have the opportunity to buy a used Park TS-2 truing stand, when I look it up online the description says something about "auto centering" does that mean...

On Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:49:08 -0400, RonSonic wrote: At some point you've got to give up the idea that every single thing Bush...

OK, after actually playing with all the stuff I have laying around I have come to the conclusion that I might as well just go 9-speed on my new bike. Won't...

Building a 27s mtb using these parts: front: 22/32/44 rear: 11/34 f & r derailleurs: m900 (early Shimano XTR) Rear derailleur says "max 32T, total 33T". Why...

From "Vintage and Classic Cars" by Ralph Stein, published by Bantam Books, 1977: *** "The first American car was sold to an American on April Fool's...

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/28/who-causes-cyclists-deaths/ Old study, but one I hadn't seen. The author of the referenced paper (David...

On Mon, 07 Sep 2009 09:47:30 +0100, Keitht KeithT wrote: Tom Sherman °_° wrote: Edward Dolan wrote: There are many Christian sects which posit...

Shimano SG-X. The chain ring looks a little asymmetrical (it's got a raised ridge running the circumference just under the teeth on one side). What's the...

My style of riding is mostly two fold: commuting and day touring. I do both of these on a mtb with slicks, fenders, racks and all the rest of it. This is...