the beat bike blog

Before: My bike was oh-so-sleek. It seems my heavy hoisting ways have caught up with me, in the form of a pair of inguinal hernias. Thi...

The Bread Cycle Works project will be having their inaugural event tomorrow, Saturday, March 27 (rain date Sunday, 3/28) from 10:00 AM to 3:...

Today, I present to you one of my least favorite bike components ever: The welded-together triple crankset. I hate these for a couple of rea...

So, with rare mechanical skill, I installed some Deore XT Dual Control lever/shifters on my Stumpjumper and ran new cables. I didn't thi...

I have been wrenching on a lot of vehicles lately. A few good friends of mine have had parts fail or wear out on their bikes and cars in the...

This is not my wheel as Webshots currently won't allow my pictures to load into the blog!! So I picked up a new road bike recently. Due...