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…
January 29, 2026 A Few More Tube Tips Jim’s Tech Talk By Jim Langley Thanks for sending in your great questions and comments about last week’s column, which was titled A Simple Hack to Prevent Punctures at the Base of Presta Valves. Flat tires being such a common issue, it’s always an important and popular…
January 22, 2026 A Simple Hack To Prevent Punctures at the Base of Presta Valves Jim’s Tech Talk By Jim Langley Last week we covered Pirelli’s new Smartube road bike inner tube, which is their new high performance TPU tube (TPU stands for thermoplastic polyurethane). In describing their new TPU tube we provided some of…
January 15, 2026 Quick Review: Pirelli Smartube RS TPU Tubes Jim’s Tech Talk By Jim Langley In case you haven’t yet heard of – or tried thermoplastic polyurethane inner tubes for tires (“TPU tubes” for short), the reasons a lot of roadies have switched to them is because they’re much lighter than standard butyl tubes…
