The Bike Lab is all about upgrades. You know, anything and everything that makes your bike better. Percieved or real, upgrades make you “faster”, lighter, stronger, or just make you feel better. It’s fun to “tweak out” your ride for what ever reason, and we all do it at one time or another. So, what […]

I often hear Guitar Ted go on about the good ole days of mountain biking when you couldn’t buy a nice mountain bike stock off a shelf. In those days you had to build your bike from the ground up and you could mix and match parts to make the bike your own.
Then it […]

Back when, you know, in the early days of mountain biking, you had one “real” choice in handlebars. “Bull Moose”, and then flat bars were the norm. Then the 90’s came and the flat bar became “the broomstick” bar. Three degree bend, 23 inches wide, and bar ends maybe. That was standard issue until the […]

Titanium is a word that makes my skin tingle. I don’t lust over carbon or ever have. Sure I have carbon bars, or a carbon road bike but it doesn’t get me too excited.
Titanium I lust crave. I’ve had a Boone titanium cog and spacer kit on my bike for almost two […]

Turn it into a cool bottle opener/key chain. Sent to me via a friend that works in SRAM land with a care package. There were tons of cool things in the box, including new X-9 shifters, candy and a jersey but the carbon derailleur cage turned into a bottle opener beats it all. […]

While brainstorming for articles regarding the new Bike Lab I had to retrain my thinking. Being one of the main contributors to Blue Collar MTB I am always trying to figure out a way to get by on the cheap, or to make that part last a little longer. I realized that […]