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Bike Touring and eReaders Nook, Kindle, Sony PRS-T1 Sync and Annotation Review

2012-06-18T23:17:50-07:00

Bicycles and ereaders, cats, it's summer time! If you plan to read for fun or research in the sun while bike touring, and you don't want to carry extra paper weight in your panniers, consider an...

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Interbike Vegas 2011 New Bike Mechanic Tools by Park Tool

2011-10-21T09:12:00-07:00

I spent a while in the Park Tool booth at Interbike in Vegas 2011 to take a look at bike mechanic tools Park Tool plans to release. This is one of a few videos. The pegboard was large and covered...

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Car Companies Collaborate and Brand Bicycles

2011-10-19T09:00:00-07:00

You probably already saw this posting about car companies branding bikes. But in case you were working on your Halloween costume for the past several days and missed it, see what you think.

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Oregon Manifest Modern Utility Bike Challenge and Creative Collaboration Bicycles

2011-10-17T09:00:00-07:00

See the bikes constructed by those who took up the Oregon Manifest's challenge of building the ultimate utility bike for modern living, Check out the creative collaboration bikes created by Ideo and...

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Interbike Vegas 2011 Kryptonite Bike Shepherd Lets You Use a Cellphone to Recover Stolen Bikes

2011-10-14T09:08:00-07:00

At Interbike 2011, I took a bunch of video of the lovely wooden bikes decorating the Kryptonite booth and talked with Kevin. Bike Shepherd is a product by Kryptonite that allows you to view...

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Interbike in Vegas 2011 Get out! There's a wooden track by the snackbar?

2011-10-12T21:30:00-07:00

I'm going to start posting a bunch of random (and somewhat chaotic) videos I created at Interbike in Vegas 2011 a month ago. In 16 hours, I tried to visit as many of the 1000+ bike vendors as...

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SF Bike Expo This Weekend at Cow Palace, Look for Wheelgirl in Rohloff Booth

2010-11-03T17:53:03-07:00

Go to the Cow Palace on Saturday Nov 6th for the SF Bike Expo. Wheelgirl will have a bunch of choice cycling drive-train and build components, bike accessories and bags, and bike clothing at great...

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Pink Rohloff Speed Hub and Components

2010-07-12T09:32:41-07:00

You are not going to see too many of these pink Rohloff Speedhubs with matching anodized pink Chris King, Hope, and Velocity components decorating a Lynskey Performance titanium frame this summer....

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Phil Wood ISO Extra High-Flange Track Hubs With Bolt On Phil Cogs

2010-06-12T10:29:01-07:00

The Phil Wood ISO high-flange track hubs have wider 3.5-inch flanges. Phil's current high-flange track hubs have 3-inch flanges. The news is that just like a disc rotor, you can bolt on your rear...

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Spring is Here, Bike Touring, Velo Orange, Soma Stanyan Frameset

2010-04-20T16:34:19-07:00

Your hours have been cut. You are out are out of work. Four-hundred people are competing for one really boring, poorly paying job. My cats, don't despair. It's time to go bike touring! Go fill...

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Foot Straps from R.E.Load, A Twist on Power Grips, All-In-One Toe Clips & Staps

2010-04-14T17:12:33-07:00

For you cats who break toe straps and like to ride wider BMX pedals on your fixies R.E.Load has come up with a toe strap design that is going to please your destructive selves. They're called...

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Spokeless Bike Wheel Star-Trek Style

2010-04-09T09:08:00-07:00

An engineering class at Yale decided to prototype a spokeless bike wheel as a class project. They prototyped the rear wheel only, given the one-semester time constraint and the rim manufacturing...

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Tool of Angel or Devil, U-Lock with 15mm Fixie Axle Nut Wrench Built In

2010-04-07T17:12:54-07:00

Maybe I am just a bit too urban in my initial ponderings. When I saw this u-lock my first thought was some wicked cat is going to use his/her u-lock to take off my back fixed wheel; do a switch...

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Lynskey Now Making A Titanium Fixie Frame

2010-02-02T18:16:33-08:00

OK, my urban cats, tired of hauling your decent but boat-anchor heavy steel fixie up and down the BART, apartment, and workplace steps at least twice a day? Want something as light as aluminum that...

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Wheelgirl 2009 T-Shirt Design Contest Winner

2009-10-11T10:59:25-07:00

We received fewer designs this year, but deciding on a winning design was not an easy task. There are a several designs that would make really great t-shirts. In the end, the judges chose Stephen...

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Paul Racer Brakes Let You Convert 27-inch Bike Frame to Accept 700c Wheels

2009-10-05T16:41:06-07:00

You have an old vintage Raleigh, Roberts, Dawes, or Peugeot steel frame with 27-inch wheels. It has semi-horizontal dropouts, and you decide to re-purpose the frame into a single-speed or fixed gear....

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Plemon's Leather Double Toe Straps, the Hand-Made Ones with the Birds

2009-07-20T06:00:00-07:00

Ok, you cats who feel like you are going to fly off of your fixies into space if you are not double strapped into your pedals, Wheelgirl Bike Shop just got in another great looking choice in double...

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Gripping Tales of Cloth Bar Tape

2009-07-09T08:42:36-07:00

Many fixed gear riders like the positive feel of cloth bar tape. They feel more connected to their handle bars via the thin layer of cloth with an adhesive backing versus a thicker layer of synthetic...

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If Forced To Visit Relatives on 4th of July, Pedal ID by PedalMafia

2009-07-03T06:30:00-07:00

Eat some grilled food, talk about the economy, kiss your great aunts on the cheek, and sneak a hand-held, web-browsing device to your 4th of July gathering. I started playing on this site after...

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Adrian and His Comic Book BMX Components

2009-06-30T14:21:31-07:00

A guy on a light blue BMX stopped at the bike shop. And I couldn't help but notice his ride. Creative cyclist Adrian had covered his stem, seat, and crank arms in comic book pages. Adrian told me...

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