March 5, 2026 Event Gear CUBE Chain Wax Lube Revisited Jim’s Tech Talk By Jim Langley You’ve surely heard the saying, “never discuss politics or religion.” When it comes to cycling, I would add “and chain lube,” because it’s one of the things riders disagree about and argue about most. Even when there’s agreement on…
February 26, 2026 Q & A: Stop Breaking/Bending Presta Valves Jim’s Tech Talk By Jim Langley You may recall that we ran a two-part series a few newsletters ago on issues with leaks forming at the base of Presta valve stems in tubes and how to address them. Here are those stories in case you…
February 19, 2026 PAC Tour’s Road e-Bike Tips Jim’s Tech Talk By Jim Langley For many years now I have received the newsletters sent out by Lon Haldeman and his crew at PAC Tour. In case you haven’t heard of PAC Tour, they put on supported rides across the USA, and shorter ones in different…
February 12, 2026 Innicycles’s Ingenious Threaded-to-Threadless Headset Conversion Kit Jim’s Tech Talk By Jim Langley My pal Tony, a longtime bike mechanic at the REI down the road from me in Marina, California gets a shout out this week for tipping me off to an exciting product that wasn’t on my radar. I’m sharing it…
February 5, 2026 Getting Angled Drop Bar Levers Aligned The Same Jim’s Tech Talk By Jim Langley My old teammate Matthew (he’s on a new team for 2026) brought his Santa Cruz Stigmata gravel frameset to the shop a couple of weeks ago. I assembled it for him with a new SRAM Rival AXS group, Easton…
