 | Christian Rodriguez on Boston to Montreal 2008 |
 | cstandley on Ashley’s Bianchi |
 | bah on Ashley’s Bianchi |
| fully loaded touring on “Ultralight” … | |
 | Adam Rice on Berunes |
Here is Ashley’s “city” Bianchi Volpe all finished. $250 of new parts resurrected it. It’s going to be used around Boston for shopping trips and commuting to work. I’m so glad that my old Bianchi frame is seeing new life and is being appreciated and riden!
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As a schoolboy I tinkered with bikes, and as a middle aged man I’ve continued my amateurish fiddling. My cheque book is now considerably larger so I can mess around with more bikes and buy bits and pieces for them, but I’ve never had any formal training as a bicycle mechanic and generally just use [...]
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There are three basic ways of transferring the motion of the chain to your bike’s rear wheel; the fixed sprocket, the freewheel and the cassette. The Fixed Sprocket This is as simple as it gets, just a sprocket screwed onto a hub. If you pedal forwards it rotates anti clockwise, and if you pedal backwards [...]
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Once I’d decided on a red De Rosa Neo Primato I had to actually go out and buy the frame. It was available on a few websites, but all the forks had non-threaded steerers and I wanted a traditional threaded steerer tube. The threadless steerer is the modern standard. It extends above the bearing, or [...]
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A non-cyclist friend of mine described this blog as “geekified to the nth degree”, and now I’ve made it even geekier by referencing “The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” in a post title. But I have no shame as the number 42 actually is important to me and my approach to cycling. All will [...]
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