Sometimes it takes the words of a 13-year old to put what it is about a bicycle that I love. Henri Boulanger, son of Gary and Jean wrote this. Ride on, Henri! Holy cow was today busy! Had what was supposed to be a simple Dura Ace triple install finalize on a Somec cross frame. […]
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I’ve know Chris Watson for over a decade. Chris knows bikes. And he also knows bottle cages and seat bags. The company he co-founded, Arundel, made one of the first (the first?) carbon fiber water bottle cage. I’ve had one on my bike for many years and a bottle has never been ejected – even […]
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I am a stickler for detail on a bike. Bikes have to look “right.” And for a road bike, that means that looking right starts with the bar tape. I finally got around to reading the newest issue of VeloNews this morning and within the first bunch of pages saw two ads where the poor […]
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Pt. Reyes used to have some public porta-potties set up next to the shop. Cyclists knew about them and used them all the time. It was a pretty good deal for me as far as exposure goes. No not that kind of exposure. Groups of cyclists would stop for the one rider with TBS (tiny […]
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This homemade looking bike came in to get some 90mm comfort riser bars, slick tires, Gripshift MRX shifters, wicker basket… Okay, not really. It did get dropped off so I can send it to its new home with my friend Noah, Cunningham afficianado. It’s pretty freakin’ cool. The model is the Wombat and was pretty […]
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I’ve wanted to start this for quite some time. “Things I Like” – self-explanatory. “Things I Don’t Like” again, very self-explanatory. And “Things I Want To Like” – this category contains things that I want to like but due to various circumstances fail in my expectation or in their ability to work/please/last. Because this thing’s […]
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This old Ibis road frame came in to have an (almost) complete 8-speed Dura Ace group installed. The frame was virtually NOS. It had had a bottom bracket threaded into it at one time and the headset was already installed, but it didn’t appear that a rear derailleur had been threaded into the dropout as […]
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…or yesterday. This bike will be traversing the California Alps during this weekend’s Death Ride. Its owner did a final, long 95 mile ride through Sonoma County’s back roads last week. After that ride, he felt like the 50/34 coupled with a 12-27 might not be sufficient to get him over all the five passes […]
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A few days ago, I had someone in the shop with a, um, saddle related issue. He would go for a ride and then have lingering pain for the next couple of days. Not good. He brought in two saddles that he’d tried that did absolutely nothing to ease the pain and provide comfort. I […]
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A week ago, a group of over 100 cyclists rolled through Point Reyes. The Almaden Cycle Touring Club’s annual Sierra-to-the-Sea ride came through Point Reyes on their way from the foothills of the Sierra’s down to Golde Gate Park. A bunch of them stopped in through out the day. The last couple of guys through […]
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My friend Gary B’s interview with Swobo’s Sky Yeager on bikeradar.com is a good read…especially the last question/answer. While you’re at it, read his bit with Grant Petersen too. (What’s playing: R.E.M. I Believe)
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According to an on-line post from Bicycle Retailer and Industry News, Giant has proclaimed it The Year of the Road Bike. Didn’t that already happen? I’m sorry, but I would prefer that they, and others, proclaim it the Year of Getting People Off Their Asses Out of Their SUV’s Off Their Cell Phones and On […]
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