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!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 [...]

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If you’ve ever had to lock your bike up out of your sight in a publicly accessible place, you are probably familiar with the gnawing feeling in your gut that makes you wonder if your ride will still be there when you return. There are ways to help alleviate the gnawing, not the least of [...]

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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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