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Same as it ever was
You might ask yourself, what could possibly be more appropriate for sweetnourishingbikes than bicycle racks designed by David Byrne? Mr. Byrne just played here in Albuquerque, which has prompted me to start reading his web site. Â There is a veritable crapload of great stuff to be found there.Just to spoil the surprise about these bike racks: Â The City of New York apparently uses some standard size of square tubing to make its bike racks. Â Since David Byrne wanted his funky designs to still be recognizable as bike racks, he wanted to use the proper tubing. Â But it was too difficult to bend square tubing in contorted shapes... so they pieced them together out of small, cut, angled sections, welded it all together, and ground the edges down! Â Voila! Curved tubing.
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Drivetrain Challenge
We all showed up for a ride a couple of months ago with a new and different drivetrain. H brought the homemade singlespeed: jsn with the Nexus 8 speed: Eric with the 1 x 5 (custom stack, friction shifter):  Me with 1 x 9: After a couple of months of trial use, one bike stayed the same, one got upgraded, one converted (back) to the singlespeed, and one was never ridden again... Stay tuned!
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Civia Hylander Alfine
 I want one.The Civia Hylander city frame, decked out with a veray sexay black Alfine gruppo. And they are pretty cheap - only 2 grand from JensonUSA.Usually I'm all steel-is-reel and shit, but aluminum kinda makes sense for a city bike since it won't rust, so you can bang the paint off with your lock without feeling like you should apply nail polish.
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More Veen-Ho De Bicicletas
 Check out this sweet "Pannier" - or Bici-Boulangier, or whatever you call a French dude who sells bread on a bike.
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NYC Steez
Not sure when bmxers decided against rocking brakes...
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Bike Lift in Norway
I'd love to see other simple, elegant solutions to this very common problem.
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Veen-Ho De Bicicletas
Sometimes when you're shopping for a nice bottle of Veen-Ho, you cast aside bouquet, legs, nose, vintage and all that crap, and just buy the bottle that has a naked chick and a bike on it. 
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 Crazy ass motorized bike seen in Waikiki. Genius! OMG it's a fixey! Well actually it had a centrifugal clutch that is basically a freewheel, but still.
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Dinosaurs and Robots: Dispatch
 Those of you who frequent the whole Make:Blog sector of the bloggosphere have probably seen Hooptierides. That is the blog by the dude who made that drive-in theater projector trike thing. Remember that? Anyway. That same dude has a new project that appeals to all of us garage sale cruising, junk worshipping, tool obsessing, vintage hunting miscreants. He calls it Dinosaurs and Robots: Dispatch, and the first issue is really nice.
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Skibike on MAKE:Blog
I love MAKE:Blog. Today they feature the Boozhoundlabs skibike. Aw yeah.
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World's Most Dangerous Bike Birthday (Observed)
The latest project: dump-bike fixie. Custom J-B Weld track cog should keep everything in place. Right? What could happen?  The finished product. Welcome to the world. Please don't try to kill me like me your friends.
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Future Taco
Remember this? Bam! Thanks to jsn for not allowing me to make it a complete death trap... Now it just needs a maiden voyage to break it in. Note one-cross versus radial lacing. A considerable improvement in strength and reliability? Stay tuned.
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Sheldon Brown 1944 - 2008
 I hate to break the sweetnourishingbikes winter dry spell with bad news. More at Harris Cyclery.If you like bikes and you've never heard of Sheldon Brown, you absolutely must visit SheldonBrown.com.
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Buy Eric's bike
Eric is selling this kickass full-suspension frame, and he wants to buy more toys, so someone buy it.2004 Specialized Stumpjumper FSR Pro. Size XL (21in)Fox RLC Triad Shock w/Propedal and Lockout (Rebuilt by Push Ind. last year)Seatpost included (Sweet!) Small ding in the drive side of the down tube and usual wear and tear throughout. Shock and pivots are in great working order.   
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Rack Test 2 (Anticipation)
I was wondering how much weight you could put in a milk crate on the DIY rack featured here:http://sweetnourishingbikes.blogspot.com/2006/08/rack.htmlThis is too much: The rack didn't fail. But the bike was so unstable I was white-knuckled all the way home fighting the thing. The weight wasn't necessarily the issue - it was the wobbling. I think the rack needs more lateral rigidity or something, because the only way to keep the front wheel from trying to kick out to the side was to keep my own center of gravity as low as possible, eliminating any stand-up pedaling. But the uphill grind home paled in comparison to the urge to reach back and drink the center of gravity down...
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Catastrophic Failure
Behold the catastrophic failure of a hub:  About half of the flange on one side just broke completely off. Fortunately, it was right at a switchback, so low speed prevented a serious pile-up. Not so lucky was the resulting ~3 mile walk out of Guaje Canyon. I loosened the spokes as much as possible with the hopes of getting the wheel straight enough to turn inside the fork, but the best I could get was a really annoying rubbing sound every time the wheel came around. With the tire deflated, some persistent pedaling - even downhill, and a high tolerance for a nature-destroying racket for every tire rotation, some riding was possible. Most of the way, however, was on foot. At least it was a nice day.
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Dave's commuter
Photos of The Commuter.   Dave sez:I found this frame at the now-out-of-business Albuquerque Bicycle X-change. They mostly sold a lot of fixed-up used bikes. There was aside room full of crap that you could barely get into, and this framewas hanging from the ceiling-- no wheels, seat, or seat post -- witha tag that said "$30 AS IS." Given that this place made its moneyfrom fixing up old bikes, I had wonder... as is *what?* But it was apretty tall road frame, so maybe it wasn't worth their time to buildup. So I bit.A few months after I got it, a loud clicking noise started comingfrom the bottom bracket. I took it to the shop for a new bottombracket. The repair guy called me later and said that the bottombracket was fine, but the grease had hardened! It was probably theoriginal grease. But the bearings looked fine, so he just cleanedand repacked.I included a crappy shot of one of the pedals. I put these on thissummer. When you're crossing a lot of intersections, its nice not tohave to think about where your foot is going to go. Its hard to tellhow big the pedals look, but its like a guy in a suit wearing DocMartens.The Carradice saddle bag is awesome, but I've decided it really needsa quick release of some sort. You have to buckle it to your seat.I'd also like to modify the pannier rack with some fuel lineextensions to get it up higher.Currently, the brakes are fairly sucky and need an upgrade. Also,the wheels are on long-term loan from my road bike. I'd like newwheels with fatter tires for better cush. Black spokes might lookgood with this frame! Also, I'm very tempted to get an internal gearrear hub. Something you can shift at a stoplight.
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rack update
 Originally one idea for the supereasy DIY rack was to pit J-B Weld against PC-7 Epoxy in a no holds barred deathmatch of destruction. The J-B Weld died a quick and painless death. Perhaps PC-7 will do better... The consistency of PC-7 is very different - more like roofing tar. Pasty, but kinda stringy too, and without the nice surface tension that makes the "fillets" look nice. Definitely lumpier. It also takes way longer than J-B Weld to dry/cure. Overnight at least, and 2 nights would be better.Stay tuned for the stress testing... Can it hold a 30-pack? On the trail?
posted by jsn at 6:01 PM
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supereasy DIY rear rack
NOTE: Before building this rack, scroll down and read the postscript.So you want a rear rack for your bike - or any kind of rack for that matter - but you don't have the tools to weld or braze or whatever. Well never fear, comrades, J-B Weld is your friend! Before we get into the actual rack stuff, let me just introduce you to J-B Weld properly, in the words of their own website: "My pickup threw a rod and tore a hole in the block. I plugged the hole with large washers bolted together and sealed it with J-B WELD. That was over 50,000 miles ago; still with no loss of oil. Thanks for a remarkable product!" There are hundreds of awesome testimonials like that, but not all of them are as sublimely redneck!So here is what we need to build a rack, and it is all available at your local Autozone or other auto parts store. You want 1 package of J-B Weld, and 2 lengths of 3/8" rigid steel high pressure line. This is the stuff you can use for brakes, power steering, etc. It is soft steel so it is bendable. You might also want to pick up a tubing bender for this, and a tubing cutter if you don't have one. You will also need a round "rat tail" file, and auto parts stores usually have pretty good deals on tools, so why not get one there too. The first thing you want to do is cut the two main pieces of the rack that will go from the seatstay rack eyelets to the dropout eyelets. Crimp one end of each. I used a bench vise, but a hammer would work. So would vise grips if you are truly desperate or one of those sickos that enjoy using vise grips. Once you have a nice crimped section, drill a hole in it to accept a standard M5 allen head bolt. You don't want a lot of play here, so try to use a bit that is just barely bigger than the bolt. I think I used whatever size is just smaller than 1/4". Now bolt that sumbitch to the seatstay eyelet. You will have a long straight piece of tubing to work with at this point. Begin bending it to the shape you want the rack to be. Note: A milk crate is about 13" square. Use a tubing bender or some sort of v shaped round thing, like a swamp cooler belt pulley, to keep the tubing from kinking. You will see an example of kinking later in this article. Try not to do that if you can. My goal was to get the rack level, and leave about as much clearance between the rack and the tire as there is between the brake bridge and the tire. Since you left the tubing long, you can get it where you want it than mark it for cutting, crimping, and drilling for the dropout eyelet. Once you have the two main pieces done, you can make the little struts that join them and for the platform for the rack. Just cut 3 (or 2 or 4 or whatever) pieces the same length, and use your round file to "fishmouth" them so that they form a nice fit with the main rails. Remember that your file will stay sharp much longer if you only drag it across the metal in the cutting direction, never backwards. It is now time to mix up a batch of J-B Weld! Awright! Just mix equal parts of the steel and the hardener. I like to use a nail or something else disposable so you don't have to clean it. Spread J-B Weld on the end of the tubing, put the pieces where you want them, and use bungee cords to hold it all in place. Next go back and make "fillets" with more J-B Weld. This is easier that it first appears because J-B Weld has a cool surface tension property that makes it self-smoothing. Just get it to stick where you want it, and it will slowly pull itself to a smooth finish. Let it harden overnight, remove the bungee cords and you have yourself a rack. Paint it so it won't rust, and you are ready to roll.POSTSCRIPT: This rack broke almost immediately. It turns out J-B weld is not as cool as I thought it was :(
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plenty-six miles per hour
(Either JavaScript is not active or you are using an old version of Adobe Flash Player. Please install the newest Flash Player.)This is the best thing I have seen in... maybe forever. It's a birthday card that Fat Cyclist's son made for him about a ride. Classic.[via]
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