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!Answer: lose weight. You can shave ounces from the weight of your bike with tweaks and upgrades here and there, but you can shave POUNDS from your [...]

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Great news! You’ll remember that a short while ago I posted a pointer to Robert Hurst’s new site. You might also remember that I, and several commenters, whined about the lack of RSS on The Industrialized Cyclist.
Well, this evening Robert hooked us up! His minty fresh new RSS feed is available right here. It’s also [...]

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Robert Hurst, of The Art of Urban Cycling fame, has a new bloggish site called The Industrialized Cyclist. I’m super stoked to see Robert blogging because I loved his book. It’s chock full of great history and tips about riding in urban and suburban wastelands. Seriously, it’s really a great book. If you’ve been riding [...]

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Matt’s got some good tips on winter riding. ‘Course, here in the PNW we’ve got winter, but we don’t have Winter. Some of you Midwest and East Coasters have totally got us beat. But still. 30° is 30°, y’know?
Anyway, Matt’s tips are worth checking out, and be sure to scroll through the comments for a [...]

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There’s perhaps nothing more important in cycling than making yourself seen. Cars rule the road and they weigh a heck of a lot more than a bike. There are plenty of safety lights for sale and I have tried my fair share. One of my favorites by far is this baby:

You have [...]

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Okay, maybe that headline is a little hyperbolic, but the truth is that my oldest son learned to ride a two wheeler nearly instantly when he was four years old. My boys are currently 6 years old and 3 years old. Next year I’ll teach the little one how to ride a two wheeler the [...]

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As much fun as it can be to come up with your own hack solutions, every once in a while it is nice to have a company do the “heavy lifting” for you. Backpacks and panniers have positives and negatives. Panniers are great because you don’t carry the weight on your back and [...]

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It is estimated that there are 600 million passenger cars in the world. The automobile industry dominates the realm of television advertising and modern society is built around the internal combustion engine. Perhaps you did not know that there are an estimated 1 billion bicycles in the world! That’s right, bicycles far outnumber cars, but [...]

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