- Blast from the past
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Lubricating your chain with paraffin wax (complete with an excerpt from the 1992 Bridgestone Bicycle Catalogue).
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Wow, I haven’t done that since the 80s! I used to have an old can filled with wax that would get reheated and reused exactly as described there. I wonder why I stopped doing that? Maybe it’s time to go back to those old ways…
- Vox populi
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Adrian has produced a short documentary on the recent Ride to Work Day.
- Rings true
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Spotted on the BV Forums: The 3 Phases of Riding in the City:
Each phase lasted about one year, for me:
Fear and Timidity
Anger and Aggression
Equanimity and Caution
- Flattening the flatland myth
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Cycleliciousness debunks the flat country/bike country myth—it’s not just Copenhagen and Amsterdam that love bikes you know!
- Don’t ask why
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Just say, “Cool!”—DIY Wooden Mudguards. (Cedar is better than redwood, apparently.)
- Holiday reading, anyone?
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The Lure of the Open Road: Wartime wandering through the Eastern states by bicycle, truck, and riverboat.
[Photo credit: i need a hacksaw by faster panda kill kill on Flickr]
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