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I'll be honest. I'm not sure whether this creaking sound is real or just in my head. I'm pretty sure it was real at some point. I'm also reasonably certain I have heard it in…

The way I got the nickname Robot was from riding to work on the coldest winter days. My incredulous officemates would ask, "Don't you get cold?" to which my brother, who…

Last night, I logged into the site editor to make some TCI magic for you and discovered that we had 90 new, unapproved comments, just waiting to be released onto the live…

Rabbits, by design, hop well. They have short femurs wed to long tibias via a reverse, spring-loaded knee, which makes them great hoppers. They have extra-long metatarsals,…

The collar bone is an S-shaped, structural member of your upper-thorax. Some people call it the clavicle, which sounds like a meeting of priests pre-Reformation, e.g., "the…

Have you ever been not riding bikes and suddenly realized you were washing dishes or doing your taxes? Even the 1040EZ fails to approach the simple pleasure of riding bikes.…

We express ourselves through our clothing, that we are a cat lady, or a tough guy, or a style maven, or a firefighter. Whole genres of t-shirt are dedicated to communicating…

There are better things to degrease your chain with than Skin Bracer by Mennen, although it is a sort of solvent. Few other solutions will leave your chain smelling better,…

If you are sitting at the bar end, you are probably in the way. That tends to be where the bartender puts the drinks going to the folks not sitting at the bar. If you're the…

The counterpart to chainstay length in a bike's design is what's called front center. Unlike chainstay length, which relates to the length of the tube, there is no tube that…