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2009-03-17

Double Flat

Today was a beautiful day for a bike ride. It was a warm, sunny day, so all the fair weather cyclists were out. Half way home I had a double flat. A thorn from some brambles cut all the way through several threads in the tire. My first patch didn’t stick. My rubber cement was [...]

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2008-10-03

Gas prices and world car and bicycle production

[Update 2011-11-28] These statistics are a bit old, but I haven’t been able to locate good numbers that are more up to date. I’d greatly appreciate any pointers to more recent numbers. (This is a re-post from last week. The original post disappeared in the server change.) I saw a graph of car and bicycle [...]

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2008-09-28

Sturmey-Archer S3X

Sturmey-Archer is introducing the S3X hub this winter. The S3X is a fixed-gear three-speed hub. This will be about perfect for commuting and winter riding around here. This is one product I have been wanting for several years. I have an old touring frame sitting around begging for this hub. Sturmey-Archer hasn’t made a three-speed [...]

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2008-06-03

Music and bikes

This weekend I was able to go to a Bill Mallonee concert in Zionsville. This time it was Bill Mallonee with Muriah Rose on the keyboard. It was a good concert with some good new songs. Some were so new he needed lyric sheets. The coffee house crowd was quiet and the sound system was [...]

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2008-06-02

Dura-Ace 7900

Shimano just officially announced the new Dura-Ace group. Shimano is finally putting the shift cables under the handlebar tape. It looks like a huge improvement over the old Dura-Ace. I still think Dura-Ace is competing against SRAM Force and Campagnolo Chorus, not Red and Record, but it will be a lot closer now.

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2008-05-15

Bike commuting

Yesterday the News-Sentinel ran a bike commuting story. Dean Koehlinger says that Fort Wayne needs bike lanes, not just trails. This is a very good idea. The Rivergreenway bike paths follow the three rivers. This is not an efficient way to get around. There need to be a few sections of trails and bike paths [...]

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2008-05-13

Bike to work week

May 12–16 is Bike to Work Week, part of the League of American Bicyclists’ Bike Month. I have been peddling to work frequently since starting grad school. I have only driven on a few workdays since September. Yesterday I rode my bike to work. After work I rode an extra 72 km. For about a [...]

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2008-04-08

Bamboo canoe

Last night I received a link to a story about a canoe built of recycled chopsticks. This is an interesting idea, but I wonder about the durability. Granted, that isn’t the point of a project like this, but I like paddling canoes, not just looking at them. It seems that all the extra joints are [...]

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2008-04-07

Bike for sale!

I’m selling my Vitus 979 on eBay.

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2008-02-21

Sheldon Brown

Sheldon Brown died on February 2. I learned most of what I know about fixing bicycles by reading his website.

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