only Cool Club members are allowed to find out 😎 Read more

buying the correct parts the first time! Honestly just buying tubeless rim tape isn’t any more expensive than gorilla tape, and the valve stems aren’t much more than a new tube! Would have saved me days (days!) of anguish. Read more

my GOD I forgot they made them in Aus! an icon. Corrected! Read more

whoa ... the brakes of kool-stop packaging fame Read more

those hubs are already a wheelset! just waiting on the frame to return to start riding them. I am also in the meantime futzing with trying tubeless on not-quite tubeless tires, so we’ll see how that goes! Read more

I did watch this whole doc and sort of expected that there would be more reckoning about his service in the armed forces being used to fight against democracy in the Dominican Republic. I sort of thought there might be more of a moral question about it, about the money and honor he gained from it that he himself might … Read more

I hate to tell you I drove one of the 1000 Lakes 142s and it was... maybe the best car I’ve ever driven. Read more

surprisingly, this bike is columbus tubing! not the fanciest of the fancy, but a tough old bird. Read more

This is 28-44-50, and amazingly my other bike has the full M730 group! (It’s cantis front and rear tho, no u-brake.) Read more

HHUMMER _EV H Read more

reassembly is NOT the same as assembly but in reverse!!!!!!!!!! this is why I always reach for my complaet idiot’s guide and not my haynes/chilton when something goes wrong Read more

I got u Read more

I do like these homages but the manufacturer is like... uh... maybe?? tubeless works???? but maybe not??? Read more

those were sold as framesets only, actually!

as a professional moron, I do periodically consider getting a bridge club frame and swapping the fork/headset for a threaded 1 1/8th but even for me that makes absolutely no sense: Read more

My last bike I had to cold set to go from 126 to 1355mm rear spacing, but since this one is getting new seat stays, the frame can just get set to 135 off the rip! Read more

I do believe it is a uniglide indeed! I have no real need to change out from it, even though six speeds of 14-32 seems a little hokey these days. But! my six-speed shifters have the secret 7th click. I tested a sram 12-32 7 speed from my other wheels and it shifted fine, so I’ll probably get that with a spacer on the… Read more

whoa, Tracker would be the right name for this! Read more

I have driven the Seltos and prefer it! Roomier in the back, but it doesn’t have as many USB ports. (dealbreaker?) Read more

The ronnie tires are on my girlfriend’s Crust! It’s a Romanceur that I spend a lot of time trying to copy—I ended up buying the same stem as she has and my new 26" bike has Simworks Homages, which I tell myself are like budget ultradynamicos. Read more