The French high cycling authority has, controversially, solved my dilemma of whether to upgrade my basic cable subscription for the month of July. Bikeradar reports that the barring of the Astana team continues with their exclusion from the Tour day France after they were denied entry into Italy’s tour. What are they thinking? For sure […]
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We’ve had spectacular weather here the past 4 or 5 days. Beautiful clear skies. Temps approaching and into the 70s (depending how close to the water you are). Not much wind… So when my wife says yesterday “why don’t you go for a ride.” I know enough to not argue and I’m on my way. […]
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Just got the latest copy of Bicycle Retailer and saw that my friends at B&L Bike and Sports garnered a T0p 100 bicycle retailer nod. Good job guys. I’m telling myself my 5 months there had to be a major factor in making the list ;-). I’m shootin’ for next year’s list…
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Well, it’s that time of year again when frame builders from across the lands converge on one common spot to show off what they’ve created. I didn’t choose to go this year. At one point, I was a little bummed I didn’t go – not necessarily for the bikes, but to hang out with old […]
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A four mile descent, duh. I finally got out for a ride this morning. Took the cross bike down to Five Brooks and climbed Stewart Trail to the ridge top and then headed back home. The climb up Stewart trail is a 4.1 mile climb to Fir Top at the top elev. 1324 feet. The […]
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I remember listening to records on an old record player that was similar to this. The first records I remember owning were Beach Boys Endless Summer and Kiss Alive! I still have them, although they are probably totally worn out. Well, now it’s about 35 years later and my son listens to music on his […]
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I’ve visited Sheldon Brown‘s website (I don’t know if what he compiled can be called a website – website seems too small for what he made available to bicycle hounds) hundreds of times. It is such an incredible collection of bicycle history, references, information… I know that Sheldon’s website is the go-to place for just […]
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I don’t know exactly why that oh so influential magazine of the mountain bike so dissed rollercams in the late 80’s, but it seems that once MBA proclaimed they didn’t like the rollercam, manufacturers were afraid to spec it for fear that their bike would get a poor review. That was a prevailing fear among […]
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This sweet old Otis Guy was in for a triple conversion a while back. It’s here now to get a wee bit taller stem. The problem getting taller stems for these old bikes is that there ain’t a lot of options, especially when the parameters are: 1″ quill and it’s got to be the same […]
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Project #2 involves building myself a new fixed gear bike. I’ve decided to retire the ole Bridgestone RB-1 from fixed gear duty and built it back up into it’s previous and original build with a mix of Mavic, Campagnolo, Shimano…stuff that works well in it’s own right. So, project #2 will be a fixed gear […]
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This is just a test. If it had been an actual emergency, what the heck would you be doing here? Seriously, working on getting things compiled for my website and wanted to see if this google map image embedded here. Thanks for your paitence and back to your regularly scheduled programming. View Larger Map Hey, […]
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I don’t think too much about Spam. Don’t eat it, don’t like it in my inbox, might like it fried and on a piece of toast. Within the past two days, Spam has been thrust into my life in the form of a post that no longer exists on mtbr and in Dave Moulton’s blog […]
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