Category: Bicycle
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Use Your Head
I went on a Damndemic bicycle ride the other day. It was a beautiful day, 68°f, and sunny. It was the first day this season I had bare knees. There was a bit of wind, though. 10 to 20 mph coming out of the Southwest. I use the wind’s whims to direct my bicycle rides.…
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Fat v The Finest
This post was perpetrated by what went on in the movie Ford v Ferrari. There was fierce competition between two different factions. They had different approaches and they both wanted to win. You’ve got the same kind of thing constantly going on in the world of bicycles. It’s suggested by many, that you would get…
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My New Fat Bear Bike
What triggered this particular verbiage assault is the new fat bike I bought in January. I really don’t know why I waited so long to tell you about it. My new ride is an Otso Voytek. “What is this crazy thing you just mentioned?”. Well, Otso Cycles is in Burnsville, Minnesota. They make a whole…
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Coffee, Bicycle, & Breakfast
When the weather permits, I like to ride my bicycle to a spot for some coffee and a treat. I can hit two places when I ride around Lake Minnetonka. If I feel ambitious I can do the 50 mile, 3 coffee shop ride. It entails riding to the J&S Bean factory in Saint Paul…
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Tubeless Redux
It seems like every 5 minutes there is a new product guaranteed to make your bicycle riding experience better. In 2001 a man named Stan Koziatek got sick of getting flat tires while mountain biking. Stan came up with, and marketed the thing that today we call “Tubeless”. Stan’s NoTubes, and Orange Seal products have…
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Rever MTN1 to the Rescue
In the world of bicycles today, disc brakes are the present and future stoppers. Calipers, V-brakes, Center Pulls, U-Brakes, and Cantilever brakes may never go away. These oldies but goodies, are being run over by all kinds disc brakes. Just like anything else, there are many flavors of disc brakes. You’ve got your hydraulic ones…
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Wednesday’s Orange Revenge
Last Sunday was like every other Sunday when I don’t have to go to work. The day usually starts with breakfast involving smoked salmon and bagels ( Pop’s favorite, not mine ). Maybe I get to do a bit of yard work, then some grocery shopping gets done while Pop stares at stuff at the store. She Who Must…
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Plastic Fantastic Luber
Ever hear the one about a man who walks into a bike shop and gives the mechanics some bike lube made out of plastic? I didn’t think so. Nor did I. There is quite a battle out there involving bicycle lubes. This one is organic, another one is au natural, and this one plant based.…
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Baby Got New Shoes!
Last winter at Frostbike, Some orange colored fat bike tires caught my eye. These orange delights are made by Vee Tire Co. in Thailand. I talked to the nice folks at the Vee Tire Co. booth and told them that Ms. Wednesday, my Surly fat bike, would go out of her mind if she saw…
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Global Fat Bike Day 2015
Yesterday, Tonka Cycle and Ski hosted a Global Fat Bike Day Ride again this year. 30 plus Men, women, and children met at the shop. 10:30 am arrived, and the riders broke off into fast, faster, and uber-fast groups, and then we all rolled out of the parking lot. Wednesday and I rode with the middle…