Here’s my new Hed Stinger 9 front wheel. It’s really deep profile: 90mm! When you put your Velocity Deep-V wheel into your bike’s dropouts, does…
Mark V
Wheel Designs I Hate: Nipples in the Hub
For some reason the past month I’ve been dealing with wheels a lot. I’ve been building a lot of custom wheels and repairing a lot…
My Favourite Hub of All Time
The most beautiful bike part in my mind has always been the high-flange Dura Ace track hub. This is a painting I did a while…
Mavic jumps into the tire market
Mavic, traditional purveyor of rims and wheels, has decided to enter the high performance tire market with the K10 tire to go along with the…
Fillet Brazing This Week
I like fire. I like setting fires. In high school, I used to steal chemicals from the lab so I could colour the family home’s…
Laundry Day
When the rack of bikes is covered in cycling laundry, it’s a good sign. It means that I’m riding consistently.
Tiger Balm
Sure there are a lot of embrocation products on the market, but for years my favourite product is good ol’ Tiger Balm. It’s cheap, I…
Cool Dyno Wheel & LIght Mount
Recently I’ve been thinking about dynamo (generator) hubs as an alternative to light systems with rechargeable batteries. Though Shimano makes several popular dyno hubs, the…
The Marginal Way
It’s odd when bicycles are classified on the city’s infrastructure as play toys so that automobiles can conveniently be driven irresponsibly. That’s what I was…
Elvish Steel apparently not the same as mithril
As a fan of bicycles, you’d have to be completely oblivious to not know that there’s a renaissance of sorts for steel bicycles, particularly at…