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!I’ve been disenchanted with our old generic bike trailer’s hitch. It’s a clamp-style hitch that’s a total PITA to get tight. I was ogling used Burley trailers [...]

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Astoria Bike recently posted an entry about the purchase of a kick back hub. The hub provides coaster brake functionality, but with two speeds. The genius? You shift gears by braking, or by slightly back pedaling. Apparently this kind of hub was invented in the early 60s.
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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 when you pull on them, the plastic tube that protects the tensioner spring may have disintegrated. Bloodhound used an electrical connector to replace the tube and give the [...]

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I am discovering that wine corks seem to provide solutions to a variety of bike related annoyances. I stumbled across this cool hack on Kevin Kelly’s site. It’s a simple yet brilliant idea for an age old problem.
I know some brakes have the ability to be engaged when the bike is [...]

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