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Cycling in the Ocean – It’s Just Corroding Salt Water
Sea Grass in the Axles Bicycle in the ocean. Turns out to work pretty well on this cheap mountain bike. One gear in the back, three in the front…no shifters needed. No shirt, no shoes, no pro kit....
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The Pen is Mightier
So we’ve got a lathe in house to do some machining. It’s a good one, and it provided us with a great variety of items that we can make rather that stock thousands of different kinds of parts and have...
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The Humble Bearing Ball
By: Jonathan Gennick with Garrett Walden One of the best things you can do to rejuvenate an older bicycle is to put in fresh bearings. The joy you get from steering the bike to pedaling to just...
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Dura Ace MF-7400 Uniglide Freewheel Gear Rules
For MF-7400 Freewheels here’s how it works: 7 speeds have 4 cog types. The smallest cog is a unique threaded type with 36 mm threads. The 2nd smallest is a threaded type at 40 mm threads. This...
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Supermoon
Wikipedia tells us that a Supermoon is when you get a new moon or full moon when the moon is closest to earth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermoon While I still have some learning with digital...
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Replacing the Rear Derailleur B-Screw
By: Jonathan Gennick Recently I yanked the B-screw from my bike and gave it to a friend in need who had broken his during some hard riding on local freeride trails. Now I need to replace the one I gave...
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The Cool White Shimano Exage Components of the 1980’s
There’s plenty of fantastic group sets that Shimano has made over the years. The 25th anniversary Dura Ace was fantastic as was the Dura Ace AX of many years before. In between there was a very nice...
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Eroica California 2016 Opens for Registration
Brooks even made an Eroica California saddle for the 2015 event. We have them in stock and have found the ride and style to be nothing short of worthy for Eroica 2016. They even came in this cool box...
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Unsticking Quick Releases
By: Jonathan Gennick with Garrett Walden Every now and then I or a friend gets a little too exuberant with our quick releases. We over-tighten. Then we can’t get them loose. I used to go at them with a...
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Nuvinci N380 Hub Now at Loose Screws Bicycle Parts
We got in our first batch of Nuvinci N380 Continuously Variable hubs today from Fallbrook Technologies. Fantastic hubs and we wanted to get them on the site right away. I’ve had a good amount of...
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Chain Guards
By Jonathan Gennick with help and inspiration from Van Ouellette-Ballas, Danny Holmes, Chris Shelly, Dalton Walden, and Garrett Walden Kids take a delightfully simple approach to cycling. Jump on the...
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The Loose Screws Beast of a Rear Rack
It is ever so slightly higher in the rear than the front in this mounting, less than what the picture conveys. The reference points go flat when loaded and someones on the bike. We’re still balancing...
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