Citizen Rider

  Back in January or thereabouts, I changed a headlight bulb in the Ford Escape. That proved to be as annoying as working on any modern mach...

  After finishing the e-bike stretch cruiser it was time to replace the shifters and crank on a beautiful late-1990s Dean. The bike might ac...

 Two local beer joints are run by mountain bikers. Both of them have toyed with the idea of starting a shop to cater to their specialty here...

 The invigorated mountain bike crowd around Wolfe City has been dreaming hard about the perfect shop, while, for the most part, driving out ...

Hard to believe that anyone in the technical mountain biking community bothers to read any of my rants, but apparently some do. Hey there. ...

Once again I spend a couple of hours chasing down weird issues in disc brakes. The customer came in with his Giant Revolt gravel bike. He ...

Danger is all around us. An almost infinite number of things could go wrong at any moment. Some computer program might be able to measure th...

Shimano's latest mechanical shifting systems seem designed to make you hate mechanical shifting systems. Weird cable routing in the...

In a recent laudatory puff piece on Pinkbike , about his visit to Shimano's factory in Japan,  Richard Cunningham  used the expression ...

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

As I was picking congealed grease out of a Shimano Rapidfire shifter pod dating from about 1991, I actually appreciated how solidly it wa...