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!It takes all kinds of cyclists to make the world go around, and all kinds of cyclists eat it from time to time. I’m generally not a [...]

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Alex over at BicycleTutor.com keeps the good stuff coming with this text-and-video tutorial on overhauling your threaded headset. Do it once a year, whether you think you need it or not. Never can tell what kinda gunk is in there.

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Gah. I’m never going to get this song out of my head! On my scraper bike, on my scraper bike… (via)

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Over at back2dabike, Jason goes into excellent detail on how to build your own alcohol stove that’s perfect for touring. There are a fair number of instructions floating around for these kinds of stoves, but Jason’s are super-detailed, with the added benefit of being hilarious. And he’s got a video of the stove in action [...]

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There are a gazillion ways to mount your camera on your bike. Most of them require more than a few “spare parts” laying around your genius workshop. If you don’t have the spare parts, you’ll be hitting up the hardware store.
Forget the hardware store and just go to your local megamart’s electronics section and pick [...]

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I tell you what, it’s great to be a cyclist in the Portland area. Jonathan Maus has been running BikePortland.org for several years, and during that time it has become the online hub of Portland area biking community. I had the opportunity to sit down with him in his Portland office and talk about the [...]

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