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!Possibly the most important thing about cycling that people may not pay necessary attention to is bike fit. There is a lot of opportunity to make [...]

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I’ve seen a few implementations of a bike-on-a-bike rack, but the Xtracycle really does seem to be made just for this kind of application. This thread on BikeForums has some great shots of a couple of Electras, one with a homemade Xtracycle-mounted bike rack holding the second bike.
The owner of the bikes, Derek (blog), is [...]

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Via 1World2Wheels comes this great report of Ripon College’s new Velorution Project.
Ripon is asking incoming Freshmen in ‘08-’09 to sign a pledge that they won’t bring a car to campus during the school year. In return, each student who signs gets a new Trek bike, a helmet and a lock. Matt and I both serve [...]

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A recent temperature spike in the Big Apple sent me rummaging through my closet looking for warm weather gear. Although I’m a huge fan of Lycra bike shorts from a comfort in the saddle standpoint, I am not a huge fan of putting my super tight shorts on display. As a commuter this [...]

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Brendon wrote a few days ago about ways to “Ugly” your bike. Because I have to lock my commuter bike outside a great deal I have been practicing the art of deceit for some time. It’s not that my commuter bike is all that wonderful anyway, I only paid $100 for it. [...]

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If you commute a lot a good bike rack can be a huge bonus. A backpack or specially designed messenger bag can be great ways to haul stuff around, but it often turns into a sweaty and uncomfortable circumstance. A particularly heavy bag can also cut off circulation to your hands which can [...]

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Okay, I admit it, I can compete with any woman who carries a huge purse when it comes to carrying stuff around with me. Wallet, keys, ChapStick, gum, MP3 player, camera, phone, etc. When I first started bike commuting one of the most frustrating things for me was having to repack all of [...]

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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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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
Step [...]

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