Category: How To’s/Tech Tips
Here’s a little project that cost practically nothing, plus you can even use it to impress family and friends. Bicycle handle bar stabilizer from RL Policar on Vimeo.
Is your loose chain bugging you? Are you eccentric? Then read on… Loose chain blues…. The Cure [not the band, sorry RL]: 1st: You put the lime in the coke… and make sure your eccentric bottom bracket’s [EBB] set screws are loose. 2nd: Rotate the EBB to adjust the chain tension, a spanner wrench is…
So one of the things that I noticed with super fast XC riders was this…they are on their big ring as much as they can. Heck I even saw a Pro-Racer at the Fullerton Loop not too long ago climbing a steep hill on his big ring (42T) and the granny gear in the back.…
Do you struggle with wanting to go faster, but you can’t? Here’s a simple tech tip that will get you moving in no time. Don’t do this… Let go of your brakes! Check out Pro KHS Racer and Team Director, Quinton Spaulding, not one finger is on his levers…and I bet he’s going super fast!…
One of my favorite things to do is come up with inexpensive ways to do things. In reality I’m cheap and most of the time broke. So that forces me to rely on my meager resources of a few bucks in order to do something. So with that in mind, one of the things that…
Here she is, a few tweaks here and there, soon she will be ready for racing. Some of the tweaks had to happen for me to be willing to enter this rig in a race. The V-brakes did not play nicely when jamming down some regular single tracks that I know like the back…