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!We won’t be advertising group rides all the time, but since this one’s in my hometown and sponsored by a fellow bicycle blogger, why not!
BikeHugger is sponsoring [...]

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Via expertvillage.com comes this great little video on the features of a touring bike (Time, 3:09).

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I saw this biked locked up the other day and admired the job the rider did to “ugly” it. We have talked about this before in previous posts: 8+ Ways to Ugly Your Bike and Ugly Your Bike #2: A Case Study.

Dude also gets an “A+” for a good job of [...]

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While you can buy a Kickbike, you can also make you own hacked scooter. This comment was posted to the Kickbike post:
Weekend warrior in Manhattan on a scooter; I sold the kickbike and now I ride a 16″ wheeled scooter; just about as fast and nimble ; a bit smaller for getting on [...]

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The post last week on the Kickbike garnered quite a bit of attention. Many people left comments and I exchanged emails with a few of them, resulting in a news scoop. From the smoky back room of FBUSA I was told that the following information (and pictures) is yet to go public, but [...]

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On my daily commute a few times over the past months I had seen someone riding what appeared to be a hybrid bike/scooter. Dude was always coming at me so I never really got a good look at what he was riding. While walking around the other day I found the mysterious contraption locked [...]

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Cool article on a German dude who builds really crazy bikes. And lives on his wife’s salary. What a life!
His name is Didi, though he goes by El Diablo (who wouldn’t), and he’s a bike freak who holds a bunch of Guinness World Records. This, boys and girls, is a standard to which we should [...]

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In case you’ve got credibility issues when you stop in at your local bike shop, have a look at this video from Quickrelease.tv. It’s got everything you need to know about the anatomy of your bike!
Bicycle Anatomy for Beginners from Quickrelease.tv on Vimeo.

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I ran into  this older article on PopSci about a homemade rocket bike. I was intrigued so I bumped around looking for a video of the bike.
I got lucky and found it! This rocket runs on nitrous oxide and roofing tar, and is capable of a 200 pound thrust which rockets (sorry) the rider down the [...]

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Sorry, just couldn’t help myself… (thanks Richard)

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