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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And now it hits home. Model years, huh. What are they good for. Absolutely nothing. Listen to me. Okay, so I took a little liberty from Edwin Starr. But really, model years are a bane to the bike industry. Maybe not “model years” per se, because some form of identifying production by specification needs to […]
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No, that’s not what this is about, although one might ask what those engineers and designers were smoking… What that is, is the tolling of the bells signaling the death of the cleanly designed, polished silver road component group – and crankarms specifically. Shimano’s Dura Ace was the last hold-out. Some would claim that the […]
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