Archive for January, 2008
Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Found this article over at Speedgoat earlier today. A good write up on the Crank Brothers Joplin, adjustable, fly by the seat of your pants, seatpost. Which originally was the Maverick Speedball. I’m sad to see the sizes are limited still and they haven’t figured out how to cram all that technology into a [...]
Posted in Bike Lab, Parts, upgrade | 15 Comments »
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
My mail man brought me a sweet present in the form of a brown envelope. Inside taped to a piece of cardboard was a couple new cogs from TomiCog for GTed and myself. As bikes have changed purposes since I purchased these cogs 2 weeks ago I’m not sure what wheel/bike this will [...]
Posted in Bike Lab, Handmade, Parts, drivetrain, single speed | 4 Comments »
Thursday, January 24th, 2008
For once someone made an over priced bar end plug that has a use! Maybe even good enough to cough over the cash for. Using technology that has been used with carbon steer tubes they created a expanding plug that works by tightening a bolt which turns in and pushes out [...]
Posted in Bike Lab, Handlebars, Parts, carbon | 5 Comments »
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
There are a pair of Juicy 7’s that have floated between 5-6 bikes in the past 3 years. They have been re bled, needed new hoses a couple times and keep on kicking as if they were new. As mainly a single speeder there are few things I obsess with and brakes [...]
Posted in Brakes, Colorful, Opinion/Rant, Parts, upgrade | 3 Comments »
Monday, January 21st, 2008
This past Wednesday was my first night ride with the Ay Up lighting setup. The ride is a 6 mile loop that is either done 2 or 3 times depending on the weather.
As normal I did a lap on my own and outfitted with only the bar mount light as the sun was just [...]
Posted in Opinion/Rant, electronics, future technology | No Comments »
Thursday, January 17th, 2008
With bicycles it seems to be one way or the other. Either no one touches your sweet rig but you, or no one touches your rig but your trusted mechanic. Who does your upgrades? It isn’t as easy a question as it sounds like at first.
Take for example the special tooling required for some jobs, [...]
Posted in Opinion, upgrade | 18 Comments »