October 3, 2024 Best Cheap Road Tires: Readers’ Picks Jim’s Tech Talk By Jim Langley In a past column I told you about the cheap folding clincher road tire that I think provides a lot of bang for the buck, Schwalbe’s Lugano II. It’s a standard, not tubeless or tubeless-ready tire. Sometimes I can find…
September 26, 2024 Tips For Rim Brakers Jim’s Tech Talk By Jim Langley The last two Tech Talks have been about disc brakes on road bikes & disc brakes on tandems. You can skid to a stop now to go back and read those articles here: Do You “Need” Disc Brakes Now? and Discs Brakes…
September 19, 2024 Discs Brakes On Tandems & A Reader’s Epic Story Jim’s Tech Talk By Jim Langley In last week’s Tech Talk, I asked you to weigh in on a few recent thoughts I had on disc brakes on road bikes – and BOY, did you ever! So many comments came in that I’m…
September 12, 2024 Do You “Need” Disc Brakes Now? Jim’s Tech Talk By Jim Langley This being RoadBikeRider, I hope it’s understood that it’s disc brakes on ROAD bikes that’s on my mind today. Because if it was mountain bikes, with the death defying feats even average MTBers routinely attempt today, I think it’s pretty…
September 5, 2024 Getting A Frozen Aluminum Seatpost Out Of A Steel Frame Jim’s Tech Talk By Jim Langley Longtime RoadBikeRider readers will remember cycling writer Scott Martin who wrote the Scott’s Spin humor column for RBR. I actually met Scott way back in 1989 when I joined the staff of Bicycling Magazine where he…
