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!Bicycling Magazine has an article that breaks down the top 10 questions they receive from readers about buying a bike. Some of the questions remind me [...]

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Slatev has a video claiming that LA boasts America’s Stupidest bike lane.
The stupid thing about bike lanes in New York City is that cars just use them for parking . . . and I have never once seen a car ticketed for doing so.
If you have a stupid lane in your community, [...]

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If you live in New York City you can take advantage of a photography exhibit that started yesterday. If you don’t live in the Big Apple, well, sucks for you. The show is called New York Bike Dreams. A brief description of the show comes from hypebeast:
In the upcoming exhibition, New York [...]

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Cyclicio.us points to this fantastic tutorial on making your own rack-mounted hydration system.
The strength of this system is that it keeps the water off your back, the bladder is easily replaced and it’s easy to clean. The tutorial shows the system mounted to a rear rack, but a front mounted rack would probably work [...]

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Man, I remember being a kid and biting it hard on my bike after trying some epic jumps. But I never had the cojones to try a backflip (last one)…
This dude gets cleaned by his own back tire.

This kid needs to work on his timing…

Ah, summertime…

Derek needs to learn to bunny hop first:

I think being [...]

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Reader Jim sent us a great front rack hack (say that three times fast) that involves a hacked milk crate. The full Flickr set with annotations can be found here, and Jim’s blog is over here. Thanks Jim!

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It takes all kinds of cyclists to make the world go around, and all kinds of cyclists eat it from time to time. I’m generally not a mean spirited fellow, but I gotta be honest here: I find crash videos to be endlessly entertaining! And I tell you what: the web is full of entertaining [...]

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I have seen tall bikes, but this one takes the cake for sure. It seems to have a built in “ladder frame” for climbing up. Dude is sure brave, I’d hate to see what would happen if a car cut him off. That would be a wicked dismount for sure. Having [...]

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Alex over at BicycleTutor.com keeps the good stuff coming with this text-and-video tutorial on overhauling your threaded headset. Do it once a year, whether you think you need it or not. Never can tell what kinda gunk is in there.

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In case (like me) you’ve missed it, there’s a nice little resource site out there on teh Intarwebs called Free Bike Tools. The tools are the online kind, not so much the kind you can hold in your hand. But still, a great resource. (via Cranked)

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