Welp, it’s going home…

Was lucky enough to have this hanging around the shop for a few weeks. Now it sits packed up in a bike box waiting for UPS to pick it up and bring it to its new home in the concrete jungle. It was pretty neat seeing people who recognized it and appreciated it. Most recently […]

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Reason #1 why you need to gease your seatpost…

I picked up this old Merlin bike recently. Full complement of WTB Grease Guard bits (hubs, headset, rollercams, bottom bracket) and size XL made the decision pretty easy. Not often in find such a rare bike and even rarer parts in my size. After I cleaned it up a bit, I went to raise the […]

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Supersize me…

Big is in. First VeloNews had a review of big, cushy sew-ups just after Paris-Roubaix. Now, in the issue I just got today (I wrote this a while back…), Greg Bagni, marketing guru, was asked “What’s the coolest product you’ve seen recently?” His initial reply was the CrankBros. wheels. When asked if there was anything […]

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Trust me, I’m a bike mechanic…

This was a saying we were fond of using in many situations back in the ’80s. It has roots in Jeff Spicoli’s famous line, “My old man is a television repairman, he’s got this ultimate set of tools. I can fix it,” after he totals a car. We used it in many cases that had […]

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