New Bicycle Assembly

Her first grasshopper. Excerpt from Barnett’s latest newsletter article “Excellence, or Expediency?” http://bbinstitute.com When the bicycle leaves a factory, it has considerable potential, but if the right things don’t happen between the...

Classic Steel

Senor Polleck shares a Bicycling article of classic proportions. There is a niche market in classic steel bikes that includes baby-boomers, generation X-ers, and generation Y, a.k.a. millennials. Nostalgic baby-boomers will scrounge an old discarded frame and spend...

Tube Patch Video

Bill Pollock supposes one can always use more info on patching a tube, especially if one can look at a video at home when convenient. http://www.bicycling.com/video/how-patch-inner-tube?cid=NL_BIK_-_08282015_patch_tube Now from the blokes with big blades down...

Tread a.k.a. Q factor

What has become known as the Q factor, correct term is “tread”, is the distance between pedals at the inside of the crank arms. Tread or Q factor theory arises from anatomical studies measuring our stance distance when walking and running. Humans tend to place their...