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!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 [...]

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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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In a post a while back I wrote about how I love the concept of bike knickers, but I do not love the thought of departing with massive amounts of money to acquire them. I did not go into great detail about how I made my knickers and have been meaning to return to [...]

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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 of when I was a kid and it was just common kid knowledge that a certain brand of bike was obviously faster.
Back in the day a [...]

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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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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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I love the internet. There is really no end to what you can find. Don’t ask me how I got there because I could not tell you, but after a fruitless search for China bicycle blogs in English a few weeks ago I finally ran into one. Chinamtb 08 seems to be [...]

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