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!How cool would it be to bike across China? Hmmm . . . how long would that take anyway?
One dude did China, plus a little more. [...]

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I am guilty of being a dork concerning a great many things. Bikes are at the forefront of my dorkiness but my obsession with Microsoft Excel is at the top of the list as well. So why not combine the two? If you are a hardcore Excel user, skip all the text [...]

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Via 1World2Wheels comes this great report of Ripon College’s new Velorution Project.
Ripon is asking incoming Freshmen in ‘08-’09 to sign a pledge that they won’t bring a car to campus during the school year. In return, each student who signs gets a new Trek bike, a helmet and a lock. Matt and I both serve [...]

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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 wheel, however, doesn’t have to be scary (though you’ll probably make your wheel worse the first time you mess with it. Tip: tighten less). You’re gonna need a [...]

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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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This was once a hack, but will soon become standard practice. Joe Friel points to an invention known as Active Spokes, which is an invention for racing wheels.
The idea is that heavier wheels are desirable in some situations while lighter wheels are desirable in others. The solution is a set of weights that slide [...]

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It’s never fun to leave your bike outside, but for some it is a necessity or part of the daily commute. There is always the risk of theft and if someone really wants your whole bike or a part of it, they will find a way. There are a variety of ways to [...]

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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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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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