Citizen Rider

Some advice and a lot of first-hand anecdotes and observations from someone who accidentally had a career in the bike business.

Showing posts with label bike nerds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bike nerds. Show all posts
Friday, September 13, 2019

So many rabbit holes...

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A customer brought in her gravel bike, saying that it sometimes locked up when she was on the big chainring, and that the freehub sometimes ...
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Monday, May 20, 2019

Revenge of the nerds

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I've had a to do a lot of counseling in the past week or so, helping customers who had state-of-the-art ten speed drive trains and now f...
Friday, April 12, 2019

Not many people could do my job. But who would want to?

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On the Facebook page of a sort-of-young mountain bike rider, he made reference to the three whole weeks he spent working for a bike shop. He...
Thursday, March 28, 2019

Mettle fatigue

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This was the kind of winter that makes owls starve to death. It was not an epic snow year, but the snow we got was dense, and melts slowly. ...
Sunday, October 28, 2018

The latest and greatest!

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Bike componentry development reminds me of the joke about the two guys running away from a bear. One guy stops to put on his running shoes. ...
Sunday, September 02, 2018

Naive bike nerds

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At lunch one day I was leafing through a book that Specialized put out to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Stumpjumper mountain bike....
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I like to explore under my own power. I like to avoid using motor vehicles, but I'm not obsessive about it. Okay, maybe I'm a little obsessive about it.
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