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!Truing wheels isn’t the same as building wheels. Similar equipment is used, but wheelbuilding is more labor intensive. And requires some specialized stuff. Truing up an already-built [...]

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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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As much as we would all love a product to work immediately as advertised, this is not always the case. A great example are bike fenders. The whole point is to keep road splash off of you. Thus, the fenders should be as close to the tires as possible. The bigger the [...]

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There are those who dabble in bike hacking, then there are those who take to hacking with a blazing hot blow torch and a Mad Max mentality. The Black Label Bike Club takes hacking to a galaxy far, far away. I had the opportunity to attend the Black Label feature event, Bike Kill, [...]

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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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