I have a Traveler III also! I had initially considered trying to make that thing into a gravely tourer like Big Green in this article, but that it has all of zero braze-ons to mount stuff to, I went looking for something that did. And thus Voyageur days began. Read more

Bike fit might be the subject of another blog, as my thoughts on the issue have gotten, well, very in-depth. I went so far as to do some side-by-side-by-side photos to see exactly what each fit looked like versus felt like. Read more

I have a full cost spreadsheet from a few months back that I need to bring up to date! Read more

my god Read more

this is pretty much exactly how it went Read more

I WILL die for rotary Read more

tell me more! I always liked these. Same designer as the AE86! Read more

The hemmings article (here) actually just cites BMW Blog as its source. I didn’t see any Texaco-branded cars for 1973 myself, as much as I looked. They did get Esso tho! This is from the ‘73 Le Mans:

Oddly it’s hard finding good pics of the Persona online. There’s the one brochure I’ve seen that pic from (often watermarked) but I haven’t found much else other than pics from Russian owners driving the shit out of them. Read more

Lol I was thinking of the Mazda Persona! Yes, it’s the Mitsubishi. Read more

cut for time was that I had looked at buying a car with that Poncho OHC six because I loved it so much. I had also considered buying a four-cyl rope-drive Tempest which I saw while on the drive over to see the Bug I eventually bought in California! I still think about those super early Tempests. Read more

The Rivendell connection is not lost actually! Rivendell is an offshoot of old Bridgestone staff, and this bike would have been made in the same Panasonic factory! At least that’s how Voyageur nerds stronger than myself have reckoned it: https://bikepacking.com/news/readers-rig-bens-schwinn-voyageur/ Read more

ol’ sheldon is linked in the blog, indeed, and the bike is currently running a modern 135mm hub with a SRAM 12-32 7 spd cassette on it! fits fine thus far Read more

Wise words! (Also my buddy in CA keeps sending me links to Niner frames. He’s building one up at the moment!) Read more

The VERY first thing that happened to my current Bug was the drums left the fronts and I swapped in discs. Bug brakes are nooooo fun. Read more

this week was a real dawning point for me that this is just who I am Read more

I’m not sure if this listing is useful for you but wow I feel for you on those brakes Read more

I meant to put in here that if anyone reading this ACTUALLY wants to know more about cantis as opposed to listen to a guy kick himself repeatedly in the shins over them, Sheldon’s site is where to go Read more

looks amazing! love those Pugs. Always cracks me up when I see All-Citys riding around in the knockoff colors. Read more

Given that it’s a steel frame, there’s some built-in flex to the tubing. A more modern wheel with a cassette wouldn’t be hard to find and your center-pull brakes probably have enough adjustment built into them. Test fit it and see what it looks like! Read more