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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.
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You know all those election signs and real estate signs you see stuck all over the place? They’re all made of some stuff called coroplast, or corrugated plastic. Coroplast is to corrugated plastic as Kleenex is to tissue. That is, it’s trademarked, but because of its success it has become a genericized trademark. Ok, enough [...]

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Lee Valley Tools (great catalog, btw) has an article about a 16 year old student who made a fully functional wooden bike as a school project.
He notes that the chain was the toughest part, but he actually made the whole thing out wood, using different types based on their particular properties. The article isn’t very [...]

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Personally, I think cycling caps are goofy looking. But maybe that’s the point, I dunno. I’d really just rather wear a skullcap or beanie or something. I’m kind of a dork, though.
Over on Flickr, user Panda Face has uploaded a very nice pattern for making your own cycling cap. You gotta know how to sew, [...]

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Of course the easiest way to make a waterproof bag liner is to put your stuff in a plastic bag. Then put another plastic bag over that one, with the opening facing the opposite way. Then shove the whole thing into your backpack/pannier/whatever. Works great.

But maybe that’s too easy for you. Maybe you’ve got more [...]

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:: Guest post by Handsome Ryan ::
These hardside panniers cost just under $30 to build but they are super rugged and, although weight weenies need not apply, they hold a lot of stuff.

The idea for these ‘bags’ began after purchasing my new bike. It had a rack, but a rack is only as good if [...]

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I don’t rock drop bars personally, but I understand they can be tough to wrap. All those curves, you know.
Over at Stupid Hurts, Court has a nice illustrated tutorial to wrapping bar tape on your bars.
Doesn’t look fun to me. I think I’ll stick with my flat bars. I just push new grips on [...]

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Here are plans for an excellent low cost bike trailer. The plans are free to anyone that asks for them, but the organization distributing plans takes their mission very seriously and asks for a little something in return. They ask that you:
1. Tell them what you are using the bicycle trailer for
2. Send [...]

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We’re in the thick of winter now, though here in the Pacific Northwest that mainly means rain, and lots of it. Other parts of the country aren’t so “lucky” though and there’s definitely a market for studded bike tires.
Over on the mountain biking forums, ZeCanon posted an awesome tutorial on building your own studded bike [...]

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Well, these panniers aren’t quite entirely made of duct tape, but they sure use a lot! Kent Peterson put up a great page detailing how to make these duct tape panniers. The concept is pretty simple and definitely hackable–there ought to be tons of variations on this same design.
The basic idea is to acquire a couple of [...]

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