A car-free couple of friends were turned down by a provincial government's child welfare agency They'd applied to be foster parents. They were told they're not...

Today, at Our Community Bikes!, I was scrounging for a trashed tire to trial fit for frame clearances and to buy some cable housing ferrules. Jay was busy with...

Thanks for asking. Kettle...

Shortly after I started posting to these groups in the late summer of 2000 I wrote that I wouldn't be satisfied until "everybody" was riding leather, wearing...

Seattle's new "Bicycle Master Plan" sounds a little like the old "Final Solution". 48.3% of respondents to the Seattle Post Intelligencer site's poll want to...

Some people love me, others hate me. BFD! I'm not going away any time soon. I am reborn with every new generation and looking forward to my next twenty...

Turning scrap into scratch. Since mid-November, I've been searching and scrounging some LBSs' recycle bins to gather tires, sprockets, chain and spokes. As...

Still lacking words to express the grief we're all feeling over our loss of a good friend I turned to the man himself. As usual, "Sheldon Has The...

There is nothing like having a winged escort of aerobatic corvids with a bad rep covering your butt. Riding a mile to the grocer today there were at least 30...

26 Apr 2005 11:04:52 -0700, , (Frederick 'Fritz' Weihe) wrote: I assume out there...

Sat, 07 Aug 2004 20:33:26 GMT, , "S o r n i" wrote: Bill "and a jerky one at that" S. But...

rec.bicycles.* will probably always remain my Usenet fix though lately the groups have been lacking the activity they once saw. The OT and x-posted crap...

I've never been caught by this stunt before. An intersection I negotiate daily is a bit weird in that it's off-set by about 50m (~150'). The east-west...

This story, sappy as it sounds, genuinely depicts the spirit of cycling folk as I know them. ---- There was a bike shop in small Quebec town that was usually...

I have Trek 1000 which has shimino sora. I want to have STI shifter, like 9-speed model. Somebody tole me to get a old model of Shimano Upper level of...

Hi, Just curious if anybody else went through the same recovery issues. On January 1 I t-boned a dog on my bike - fortunately I was going between 10 and...

Sorry, but it just has to be said. FIRE MILLEN

I'm shopping for a trunk-mount bicycle carrier for Daughter's car. It's a 2009 Pontiac coupe and it has a little spoiler on the rear deck. (not sure if the...

See what I did there? I got your attention. ;-) Anyway, I have a 15 year old mountain bike that I use to commute to work a couple of times a week. 5 miles...

I have an old 7 spd Ultegra non-cassette hub and I would like to change the rear wheel to a 6 spd disk for time trialing. Is it possible to make the drivetrain...