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A huge range of opinions and experiences in the comments on this article: http://www.southcoastbikes.co.uk/Dont-Buy-a-Cheap-Bike The one I found most interesting: ..I think that Halfords might be suffering from cognitive dissonance when it tries to sell bike care plans with BSO's. It's...

Can you pump running dropbars? My guess was that pumping works ok when you're using flared drops alla Phelan ..But that it doesn't really work with flareless road drops - the motion seems wrong with that wrist angle. And that that you'd need drops set up high, so that you're always riding in...

I think this picture explains the concept: ...You can have extremely low outer pressure for a huge contact patch and higher inner pressure to avoid pinch flats. Ride reports are extremely promising: http://www.pinkbike.com/news/Schwalbe-D ... -ride.html How this will interact with wheel...

I was going to keep my Zaskar all-rigid, but it's behaving so well I'm finding it hard to resist a suspension fork on. But: - I need to stay inside a one bike limit! So the Zaskar needs to stay rideable for commutes. Which means a lockout and a fork that doesn't need too frequent servicing - at...

So GT made 900 different models with the same geometry - some from one sort of aluminium, some from another, some from steel made by Zen monks, others from fossilized mammoth bones and a few from a composite material made out of pressed ferns. Kona wasn't quite as willing to experiment, but they...

I've been going a bit crazy trying to work out what size middle chainring an old Alivio crankset needed, then crazier trying to work out how the ring was held on... Then I began to have a suspicion, but I didn't dare believe it until I googled... the rings are riveted together so you can only...

The Almotion is Schwalbe's new top-of-the-line fast-but-wide tyre, going in above the Marathon Supreme (a long term darling of the CTC set.) It's supposed to keep all the good parts of the Supreme (speed combined with durability, protection and grip) but to be even faster and a somewhat decent...

However dedicated a retrobiker you think you are, this guy has you beat. At least he does if you're not not Jacqui Phelan. For he has been a bike messenger for over 30 years and used the same bike all that time. That's 60,000 hours racked up on one frame by my calculation. Maybe even the same...

Shimano have decided that they're the future of road racing: http://velonews.competitor.com/2014/09/ ... ure_343690 They're liked for the great modulation plus the clearance for wider tyres (up to 30mm - that probably would be a Godsend on the cobbles during a Roubaix) that future road...

There's more technical stuff here: http://janheine.wordpress.com/2011/10/0 ... stiffness/ http://janheine.wordpress.com/2011/02/2 ... stiffness/ ...Does this make sense to anyone here and have they noticed any frames that seem to give an extra boost to pedaling? I have a suspicion that the GT...

That's it, really: can a bike like a Zaskar with a 1 and 1/8" threaded headset take a modern threadless of the same size instead? (I don't want to do this - I've just been reading up on headsets and can't find the answer..)

A friend tried out my Mary Barred Zaskar to get a feel for said bars. He's on the fence about the Mary Bars (and hates my DX thumbshifters, so there's something very wrong with him) but wanted to buy the saddle off me because he said it was that comfortable. And I have no intention of selling...

They all look the same - BBB, Profile, etc - but are they? I'm having some trouble with the last one I bought (which was neither of those brands.) (I'm looking for something to fit a 1 1/8 headset, but I suppose I could use a shim.)

I've never really been interested in road cycling, but......... just "Gosh!" Really. All the following stories are from cyclopunk.blogspot.co.uk Garain became a professional that same year, and did so in typically unusual fashion: having turned up for a race in Avesnes-sur-Helpes, he was...

Look closely at the brake arm on the left. But you don't have to look VERY closely. And this is an advertising, presumably of unused randonly selected brakes...

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This is my attempt at a complete True Zaskar Identification Algorithm. For now "True Zaskar" = American Zaskar, because Taiwanese Zaskars used different tubing. I was motivated to create this because all the rules I found while googling were incomplete, and - much more importantly - I'm stuck in...

Hans Reye's team first team Zaskar: Zan - I mean "can" - someone explain the problem with welding???

If you use highschool physics to analyse the performance of slicks on the road, you'd expect narrow slicks to grip as well as wide ones. E.g http://www.stevemunden.com/friction.html But they don't, because the physics of really pneumatic tyres is bloody complicated... I.e. if you imagine a...

It looks completely at home with the different wheel size too: