Pretty historic day today. There’s a lot of hype, for obvious reasons, surrounding this election. From my perspective, though, I see the election of 44 as the best man for the job and not the election of someone simply because you don’t want the other guy to win. The only thing this election was about […]
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A group of seven vintage bike kooks met up in Fairfax to take advantage of a holiday and the incredible weather we’ve been having. I spent the prior day getting my Ibis SS ready to ride. The one thing I wanted to do was get the Suntour XC Pro rear derailleur and right side Suntour […]
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You know when you’re working on something and a small part falls? You train your eyes on the approximate location where it’s going to fall, listen for it hitting the ground, and then, hopefully, your eye notices movement making it easy to find? Well, sometimes it doesn’t happen quite like that. I’m adjusting a first […]
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We’ve been having unseasonably warm weather. The thermometer topped out at over 70 degrees yesterday. I set out on a ride to take advantage of the weather and my day off. I had set up the Rawland with the 700×45 wheels for the mixed-terrain ride I was planning. The burly knobs of the Panaracer Fire […]
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Like Dr. Hook proclaimed, “gonna buy five copies for my mother.” However, there ain’t no buying things that are posted on the internet. Regardless, there’s a photo of three good lookin’ guys at the end of a nice interview with Sean Walling of Soulcraft on bikeradar.com. I happened to be out in Petaluma for a […]
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If there is any bike that is going to ride as nice as any bike can today, tomorrow, or 10, 20 years from now, it’s the WTB Phoenix frame. There’s nothing “special” about the ride of a Phoenix. The incredible ride of the Phoenix comes from it’s ability to disappear underneath the rider. In the […]
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It’s been busy. Not busy with foot traffic, but busy with various repairs, restos, and projects, so here’s a little catch up post. I had both a very nice old Bontrager Road Lite bike and Petaluma Salsa La Raza in for some work. Both bikes are owned by women which is not really a big […]
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Sorry, this is about seat bags and how they attach to seats. Why is it that some folks can’t figure out how to install a seat bag? When the bag is purchased, the straps are pretty much in place according to how the strap should wrap around the bag. But yet, the new bag owner […]
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I had fairly high hopes for the 2008 holiday season, but coming into December 23 a couple grand under last December’s sales, I was a little bummed. I’m not one to constantly monitor sales reports and fret because I’m not “where I need to be” and I’m certainly not going to get down because of […]
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This one was many months in process. The owner wanted the old Manitou suspension fork replaced with a Steve Potts built Type II with roller-cam brakes to match how the bike was originally built up by Point Reyes Bikes many years ago. The frame is a first generation Klein Pinnacle that was originally delivered in […]
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This older mid-70’s road bike comes in recently. It’s got a Campy NR crankset with 52/47 gears (from a time when men were men and rode man-sized gears). Pretty nice old road bike – a Swiss Super Mondia. The first time it was in the shop, I steel-wooled the rust off the chrome stays and […]
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If the first ride on the Rawland dSogn did not disappoint and the second ride put a stamp of authority on how well this bike rides. A small group of us headed out in the pre-dawn cold for a dirt ride. It had rained overnight so a set of SKS mud guards were in order. […]
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