By Mark V For 23 years, the 8-sp, Hyperglide cassette body was all you needed to run whatever cassette you wanted… In the beginning there…
May 2017
Issue 04: Building a Bike for Adventure
By Michael Pfaltzgraff “Welding is a violent activity,” he told me. I realized this summer that I have worked in the bike industry for twenty years.…
Issue 04: Ultra Racing and the Recreational Cyclist: Bite-Sized Chunks
By David Longdon The basic plan for most 4-person relay teams is to have two large vehicles (SUVs or minivans), with racers #1 and #3…
Issue 04: Trailblazer
By Zanne Blair Every time he opened his mouth, stupid came out. “All great adventures have moments that are really crap.” – Ellen Potter, The…
In Praise of the Solo Ride
By Rob Annis Twenty miles into the ride, I spy a tattered American flag atop a pole rapidly flap in the growling wind and adjust my…
Issue 04: Adventure Bikes, Same Story-Different Day
By Guitar Ted The fat bike, gravel road bike, and touring bikes have been proliferating and all to the same siren song tune of “the…
Issue 04: Adventures in Neurochemistry
By Patrick Brady The world can’t really slay a stoned musician with a smile like a crescent moon, can it? Or, the uncertainty of cycling…
Issue 04: Lezyne
In the jersey and the shop, Lezyne products are some of our favs. I’ve ridden with a Lezyne phone wallet so much, I wore out…
Saving Bruce Gordon Cycles
After reading that Bruce Gordon was done being Bruce Gordon the bike builder and shutting down his frame shop, a GoFundMe project has been started…
Downloading Your Flickr Photos
I ignored Flickr for the past two renewal cycles deciding it would cost me less to just renew, then deal with the thousands of photos…