Citizen Rider

This stem, custom made in the early 1990s for a guy who is about 6-foot-14 1/2 inches tall, has been abandoned by its owner as part of a w...

Dredging around on the interwebs for a certain specific mutant mountain bike from the 1990s, I found a site depicting bikes of that period, ...

Someone dropped off a pile of back issues of Bicycling. One of them included a special section devoted to ebikes. Check out the Buyer...

A bike mechanic should do more than absorb and repeat the industry's latest technical information to keep pushing the wave of product ro...

I needed a hole punch for some shim material, so I ground down an old axle. Later I realized I could try it as part of a noodle bender t...

The next version of shifter noodles is ready to be tested. A 4mm ferrule does fit over the metal pipe of a brake noodle. I replaced the ju...

While I was replacing the air spring O-rings in a customer's early-21st Century Cannondale F600 I noticed that the fork boot had a rip i...

The Serotta tri bike on which I installed the shifter noodles   in April came back for some adjustments, including shifting problems. The ju...

Here's a short exploratory video of the shifter-noodle arrangement and some better pictures of the final version. It's on its way to...

Head-tube cable stops are one of the stupidest things ever put on a bike. Only a few misguided builders are still putting them on some road ...

Two or three days at 50 degrees got rid of all that pesky snow we were planning to use to earn a meager living for a couple of months. The...

On the bike that kills front derailleurs we installed a Shimano Sora 9-speed compact crank. Brand new. Fresh start. The bike now shifts per...

Moving from approved and tested treatments to experimental therapies on the Bike that Kills Front Derailleurs , I wondered if the 9-speed SR...