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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It’s not always necessary to buy parts. Sometimes a little creativity can save you some bucks and give your ride a little style. Plastic water bottles are getting a lot of flack for taking up space in land fills, but they can also be used to keep road grime off. With a [...]

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You know all those election signs and real estate signs you see stuck all over the place? They’re all made of some stuff called coroplast, or corrugated plastic. Coroplast is to corrugated plastic as Kleenex is to tissue. That is, it’s trademarked, but because of its success it has become a genericized trademark. Ok, enough [...]

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