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These FWD MBB bikes teach you how to pedal! If you are pedaling strongly with your dominant leg, you may need to concentrate on your other leg's performance. Even power, even pedaling circles and good technique in general is required: These bikes will teach you to pedal smoothly. Are your legs...

"If your frame came from the factory with the lower stud mount already installed would you purchase an accessory like this that allowed you to easily push the bike around via the headrest without worry of the boom swinging around and slamming your brake into the frame? It makes moving the...

RojoRacing is way faster than I ever used to be, so what seems fast to me probably has very little to do with what is actually fast in the real world. Here's my input on fast wheels, which matches LarryOz carefully measured experience.... One day while poking around a local bike store, I saw...

Waxing chains is a real time consumer for me. Removing the white waxy residue with a toothbrush from all of those crannies and buffing the side plates inside and out by hand takes me forever. Sure, the waxed chain gleams in the sun, but it's just not for me. Happy April 01....

Just a gentle little reminder... powerful U.C.I. sprinters get up out of the saddle, rocking and weaving their bikes while yanking on the handlebars when they work very, very hard. The Vendetta is a little different. It too responds well to 'bridging', rocking, weaving and handlebar input under...

The narrowest bars I've seen mounted on MBB FWD bikes were Tom Traylors unique folding handlebars which, when folded, put his hands together in front of straight arms and the Sofabike, another handmade FWD MBB bike which has short stubs welded on the top of the TFT which puts your hands together...

A little nervousness is probably a good thing... keeping yourself aware of the abrasive nature of the surface you're riding on and of how little protection you have between the road surface and all of the pain receptors on your skin!

The tyres got aired up yesterday.

As you know, when you change one thing on your bike it affects the whole system. In other words, move the seat back and the handlebar will need adjusting which will change the angle between the chain stay and the TFT which will, in turn, require you to adjust the front derailleur. Now, with...

Yes: Laziness and inertia keep it where it's at. Everything is working so well together, at the moment. If it ever gets relocated, it will live under the big boom in the wind shadow of the boom and head. The bottle bracket mounting points ought to make this easy.

My girlfriend gifted me the alien squeeze toy horn. When I stop to confront aggressive loose dogs, the squeaky toy sounds the alien makes befriends almost all of them. Kids say stuff, but the noisy slipstream swallows any comments... grinning back always works. I like my alien riding buddy!

The local weather -Chattanooga, TN.- is mostly nice now, with wet stuff every other day or so. Since most of my life were lived in central California, this still seems too wet to me. But yes, I know how lucky I am. Much of the Southern Gulf states are flooded, for example, so things could be so...

Last week, March 3 or so, was my first ride of the year. Over 70 F., lots of Sun and no wind. The V... well, it sure is nice to be pedaling outside on roads, working the bike into my own headwind.

Cruzbikes are like D.F. bikes, kind of, when stopping hard: Stoppies! My original Sofrider V1, with its tall seat, short wheelbase and powerful V brakes generated stoppies easily. (A "stoppie" is when the bike is braked hard enough to lift the rear wheel up off of the ground.) My modified...

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On my Vendetta 1.5, the headrest tubes are clamped to the back of the aluminum seat pan. On this bike, I lowered the headrest with shims which accomplished the same thing that Trplay, John Dorlon, RojoRacing and now Snilard have done by cutting sections of tubing: Lowering the headrest. The air...

...or just snap your femur and reset your leg to the optimum angle for your bike? Seriously, while you're busy measuring things, please measure your legs ... those things that make your bike move. One leg will be a bit longer. If the difference in length is large enough, you'll feel it and if...

The Kervelo makes perfect sense and looks like it would work well. It has the same appeal and almost the same simplicity as my first-ever bike... a fixie front wheel drive steel tricycle. However, the Kervelo's not even withing shouting distance of any Cruzbike ever made, as far as efficiency...

"Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun." ~ Alan Watts Religious quotes? Seriously?

Makes you look like a WW1 flying ace! Good job and thank your wife for me, would you please?