Timma on Trek Portland
Spencer,
As a Trek dealer (in canada) did you try to warranty the wheels before sinking the money into them? From my experience Bontrager wheels have a fantastic warranty that generally cover such occurences. Just a thought ... ... [Keep Reading]
vaccinefiend on Dynamic Bicycles Sprint 7
I owned a Dynamic Bicycles shaft drive bicycle. The Sussex shaft drive was not built to specifications that could handle the torque generated when pedaling uphill, or pedaling hard on level ground. The result was that the shaft drive was not mainte... [Keep Reading]
spencer1 on Trek Portland
I now have 4100 miles on my Portland now. See earlier post. Wheels have definitely been the only weak point on this bike. In the last two months, I have sunk $70 into truing wheels and they are already out of true again. I looked yesterday and no... [Keep Reading]
Arleigh is building, documenting and writing out her build up of a Salsa Ala Carte mountain bike with 650b wheels and a Xtracycle Free Radical Kit. This is an on going series so stay tuned for more installments.
Late this past week I took delivery of an Xtracycle Free Radical Kit at the shop. The Xtracycle [...]
Here at Commute By Bike we focus primarily on utility bikes designed more for practical transportation rather than fast sport recreation. I know many of you, however, like the fast road bikes.
My good friend Ken Conley in Silicon Valley is a fast bike fanatic who rides his bike to work. He recently had an [...]
Do bike boxes help? Have you ever used one? Do you even know what a bike box is? Here is a picture to help understand:
Pic is from the Seattle Times, who published this article on the subject. I also came across this video with a bit more of an [...]
Just some random and unorganized notes and links about utilitarian cycling and the Tour de France and racing and controversy.
Bike Hugger says he expects Interbike 2007 will focus on “comfort bikes, SUBs, cargo bikes, and the like” instead of racing bikes.
Great article from Grist on Bicycle Shame
To be a successful adult, apparently, you have to [...]
There’s a lot of misinformation going around about the “attack” of a family in a minivan during San Francisco Critical Mass last Friday night. It started when San Francisco Chronicle columnists Matier & Ross (who are anti-cycling) wrote this very skewed editorial, claiming that a mob of crazed cyclists attacked an innocent family of vacationers [...]
Reported variously in the Times of India, DailyIndia.com, Mumbai Newsline, Daily News and Analysis and Sahara Samay comes this whopper of a tale:
Vinod Punamiya is an unusual sports lover. Last week, he made a world record by covering 140 km — from Mumbai to Dombivli — on his bicycle in 2 hours 20 minutes. That [...]
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