Hey, thanks for stopping by! If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to the RSS feed. You can also subscribe to BikeHacks by email. Thanks for visiting!Over at bike to work to live to bike, Bloodhound has a nice tip for fixing rough sounding sidepull or dual pivot brakes.

If your brakes feel rough [...]

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Wooden fenders are so cool, but they can be kinda spendy. And it can be tough to find just the right size if you’ve got funky clearances or geometry.
This tutorial on making your own wooden bike fenders is awesome (thanks, Anthony!) The thing that’s always thrown me was the curve of the fender. His technique [...]

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Here’s a nice little project for the weekend, provided you’ve got access to your cubicle. These are pretty decent instructions for building a bike rack for your cubicle.
The end result is a 1×3 board with a wall-mount bike rack screwed into it. The board is secured to your cubicle wall with standard 1″ backpack [...]

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It’s not always necessary to buy parts. Sometimes a little creativity can save you some bucks and give your ride a little style. Plastic water bottles are getting a lot of flack for taking up space in land fills, but they can also be used to keep road grime off. With a [...]

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Crickey, there are a lot of ways to map your bike route! This list focuses on freely available versions. I’ve caught a lot of them, but I’m sure there are more. If you notice that I missed your favorite free bike route mapping tool, drop it in the comments!
There are plenty of places that’ll [...]

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Awesome bike hack pulled directly from the bowels of the BikeHacks Flickr group (thanks, Nick@cheaphack)!
Click on the picture to get the full-size version, with annotations from Nick.
Step 1: get some shoes
Step 2: get some old inner tubes
Step 3: sew the tubes to the size of the shoes
Step 4: slip the sewn tubes around the shoes
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This was once a hack, but will soon become standard practice. Joe Friel points to an invention known as Active Spokes, which is an invention for racing wheels.
The idea is that heavier wheels are desirable in some situations while lighter wheels are desirable in others. The solution is a set of weights that slide [...]

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You know all those election signs and real estate signs you see stuck all over the place? They’re all made of some stuff called coroplast, or corrugated plastic. Coroplast is to corrugated plastic as Kleenex is to tissue. That is, it’s trademarked, but because of its success it has become a genericized trademark. Ok, enough [...]

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If you are not satisfied with the paint job on your steed or want to take it to the next level, there is a tutorial on bike painting posted on Instructables.com that provides step-by-step instructions. With the aid of some tape and stickers you can let out the artist buried deep inside you.

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I love all the uses people come up with for the energy created by bikes.
The idea of pedal powered television is killer. It’s the opposite of couch potato, since you’re literally paying for the TV you watch with your own sweat.
Be sure to check out the video linked at the top of that page. [...]

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