Citizen Rider

  A regular seasonal customer wheeled his bike in last week to leave with us because the rear hydraulic disc brake has gone squishy. He'...

  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...

  A rider brought in his fat bike because he had accidentally burped out one of the caliper pistons in the SRAM G2 Ultimate front brake. So ...

Like rising sea levels, a steady tide of brake fluid, shock oil, and tire sealant laps higher and higher. On it float the carbon fiber fusel...

 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...

 Being forgotten by the technological world for decades was one of the best things to happen to bicycling. The machinery evolved very slowly...

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...

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. ...

A cartoonist and art teacher whose work I admire recently posted a piece in which he reveals that making art -- even making funny art -- fo...