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Yes, that apostrophe is correctly placed and no I'm not cursing. 'Cept maybe under my breath. Non-cyclists frequently ask me why bikes cost so much. I've got a dozen…

I saw this video over on All Hail the Black Market, where Stevil flagged it as inspiring and heart-filling. Stevil is an old softy, but he's not wrong on this one. It makes…

There's a paradigm-changing bike on Kickstarter right now. It's a brilliant re-imagining of how an engineer can increase air volume in rear suspension and make a suspension…

The first bike shop I worked for had a reputation for being a no-nonsense place that provided quick turnarounds on race bike repairs. We unofficially prioritized repairs for…

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…