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Carbon Fiber Counterfeits
I know I've written about this before (Fakes and Forgeries), but I've been seeing more news in the last couple of months about "fake" or "counterfeit" frames on the market. The latest news I've seen...
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Bike Safety 101: How To Protect Your Bike
In the Bike Safety 101 series, I've looked at a lot of old educational films about bike safety and following the "rules of the road," but this next film is one of the few I've seen to tackle the...
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7 is the New 11
With bicycle gearing going to 10 and then 11 speed cassettes in the last few years, I never thought I'd see the gearing trend go back the other way. But suddenly, 7 is the new 11.SRAM's X01 has a...
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Sharing The Road Electronically
Bicycles are best when they're simple. All the electronic gadgetry and other car-like technologies being applied to bicycles only serves to make them more expensive and more complicated, but not really...
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Hardshell Helmets: A History Through Advertising
In my list of Top 10 Bicycling InventionsĀ posted back in January, I listed at number 10 the introduction of effective bicycle helmets. Like a lot of people, I credited the Bell Biker as the first...
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Vintage Helmet Ads
When I was going through all those old issues of Bike World, Bicycling, and Bicycle Guide from the '70s and '80s to find helmet advertising, one can imagine that I found and scanned lots more than I...
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A Break in the Cold: March 8th Ride
Could it be? Is winter finally starting to release its icy grip?I got out today for (I'm almost embarrassed to admit) my first ride of 2015.I have a self-imposed limit of 25 degrees (American) for bike...
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More Press-Fit Bottom Bracket Madness
Back in 2013, I wrote about press-fit bottom brackets, and all the various "standards" that have been introduced in recent years. I summarized it by saying essentially that the only thing "standard"...
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Axles of Evil
Decisions, decisions. Don't ask the bike industry to make them. And agreeing on standards? Forget that too. Bottom brackets and headsets are both in such a state of flux that there's a good chance that...
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Eric Clapton - Bicycles and Rock & Roll
I was listening to Disraeli Gears by Cream the other day and it got me thinking about bicycles.Bicycles? Really?Yep.Granted, lots of things get me thinking about bicycles, but it's probably already...
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NAHBS: Objectification Is Not Dead
A bicycle built by Allan Abbott and displayed at the recent North American Handmade Bicycle Show (NAHBS) has been the center of a fair amount of controversy around the net. Built in the form of a naked...
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Cars, Bikes, and Distorted Risk Assessment
If you spend much time riding the roads, you'll hear it a lot -- from friends, family, co-workers, and often from complete strangers."You ride on the road? Aren't you afraid of the cars?""I'd ride my...
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Must Have Item: CeramicSpeed Hollow Titanium Pulleys
Just think how much of your pedaling effort gets wasted by derailleur pulleys on a typical bike ride. All that weight. All that friction. Sapping your energy, and as a result, your speed. I know I...
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Gokiso: Ultimate Wheels. Ultimate Price.
So, once you've bought your $1000 titanium derailleur pulleys and you still haven't captured all the KOMs on Strava, where else can you turn to blow ungodly amounts of money seeking those elusive and...
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Whatever Happened To Rebecca Twigg?
I don't know if there is any male cyclist of my generation who didn't have a full-out crush on Rebecca Twigg at some point in their life. Twigg was one of the most dominant American bicycle racers of...
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Bike Safety 101: Drive Your Bike
It's hard to imagine a more car-centric bicycle safety film than Drive Your BikeĀ from 1954. It's also one of the most incredibly dull and stilted films of the genre, and believe me, that's a crowded...
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My New Bike: Specialized Tarmac Di2 Disc
I recently took delivery of my latest and greatest bike: a Specialized Tarmac Di2 Disc. The bike retails for just under $10,000 -- and that is a serious bargain -- especially when you consider that it...
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Mandatory Helmet Use - Coming Soon To A State Near You
Many of you probably wear a helmet when you ride, at least most of the time. Great. Good for you. A helmet may protect your head in the event of certain types of falls or impacts.But should helmet use...
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Home - or Stay Home. Hollywood Hates Bicycles
I took my kids to see a movie today -- Home, from DreamWorks Animation. The film is about an invasion of Earth by colorful, vaguely cuddly-looking aliens called the Boov -- one of which, named Oh, is...
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10 Most Beautiful Bicycles?
I love articles like this one from BBC Autos: The 10 Most Beautiful Bicycles. Or rather, I love to make fun of them. It's pretty clear to me that automotive writers and editors have very different...
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