Every day I wake up and think my Bike Thoughts. I think about handlebar wrap colors. I think about about reach and…
Every bike curmudgeon on the internet will grumble “steel is real” if you trot out an old frame. Steel frames last…
Less than a mile into the trail, I crossed over a little plank bridge, over a small hump and then KERSNAP. I knew…
I did buy my 1987 Schwinn Cimarron with the intention of riding it. It’s a bike. Riding it places is the whole…
I was surprised to find myself riding my $150 Schwinn just one day after it arrived, half-disassembled, in the mail.…
After months of searching, I sent $150 to a guy I had never met, for a bike I had never seen with my own two eyes,…
If you’ll permit me a brief digression in this story about threading a heavy metal rod through my $220 bicycle and…
I have had this 1982 Honda MB5 for quite some time. It has a special place in my heart because I commuted on it daily for a year in the metro Atlanta, Georgia area. Sadly it has been sitting idle for almost a decade, as I’ve brought it with me through four different moves, including two moves of more than 1,000 miles.
The idea was simple: Get a cheap, old steel bike and bring it up to date with modern components, good enough to hang…