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So in Part I of fork rake, I explained just what it is and how it affects a bike's handling. In Part II, we looked at common fork rakes for different kinds of bikes and a…

On Christmas morning 1976, I woke to find a Big Wheel parked in front of the tree, the one with the skid brake. Because we lived in Rhode Island at the time and climate…

When I first went to work in a bike shop, other mechanics stressed to me how important it was to "stretch" the new cables on a bike during assembly. In the course of…

This morning (as I write this, not the morning you're reading this), as my eyelids fluttered me into consciousness, I had a flashback to the shop where I developed my…

Let us dispense with pretense. I am Welsh. Though I grew up in the States most of my family live in the green, hilly central part of Wales that the English sometimes refer to…

In Part I, we looked at how fork rake is determined and how it affects the way a bike steers. That's most of what you need to know about fork rake, but not quite all of…

So far we've hit bottom bracket drop and head tube angle in the Angle. It's a good start on understanding why a particular bike handles the way it does, but as I mentioned in…

It doesn't take much. Really. Two mostly round, mostly true wheels. A hop is ok. Oscillations can work, the brakes all the way out, whatever screws they have unscrewed to…

Selling a bike seems easy, right? Bikes are awesome and anyone we speak to needs one/another one. So working in a bike shop, where people walk in to buy one of our favorite…

I know it's the end of summer, but there's not much I like more than a bad idea taken to its furthest logical extreme. Say you live in a cold weather clime, but you're…