Jim’s Tech Talk By Jim Langley Last week on April 17 – 21 the Sea Otter Classic bicycle expo and competition took place in Monterey, California. The event’s been happening for 40 years and has become one of the largest cycling festivals in the world and most-important early season competitions with races of almost all…
Jim’s Tech Talk By Jim Langley Apparently a lot of cyclists experience crazy calamities like Mike who shared his stick in the wheel disaster last week: https://www.roadbikerider.com/mikes-wheel-collapse/. We received some great comments on the subject and I heard some good stories on Facebook. But the best one so far came in via email from Russ…
Jim’s Tech Talk By Jim Langley This week I’m sharing photos of what I think is a fascinating wheel collapse or as chefs say, “deconstruction” might be a more appropriate word for what happened. Follow-up on Chain Keepers But first, a couple weeks back we were talking about getting a dropped chain back on when…
Jim’s Tech Talk By Jim Langley To start, thanks everyone for the helpful responses on lowering road and gravel bike gearing, which our last Tech Talk was about. It’s an important topic for all cyclists from beginners to experts and not only because our needs change over time. If you missed it, the story and…
Jim’s Tech Talk By Jim Langley In case you read about my new Trek Checkpoint SL 5 Gravel Bike in this space back in February, I want to share that I’ve changed my mind on the bike’s stock gearing. What I wrote in that review was this: “Due to a parts shortage my bike came…
