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Category Archives: Thinking about bikes

Picking parts for my wheels

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Now that I have my frame all picked out I figure the next logical thing to do is pick some wheels. I decided  early on that I wanted to learn to build a wheel. I don’t have a good reason for this other than it seems like the most complicated part of building a bike [...]

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Picking a Frame

Sunday, January 18, 2009

The first thing I figured I should deal with is picking out a frame. I knew I wanted a bike for commuting and touring etc. Experience has taught me that steel is a better choice for everything I wanted to do than aluminum, carbon fiber or something more exotic. It has significant advantages in repair-ability, [...]

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First Post

Thursday, January 8, 2009

I’m building a bike from scratch. Well not quite from scratch. The frame will be built by someone else, as well as all the components… So perhaps I’m assembling a bike from scratch is more descriptive of what I’m doing. My intention on this blog is to blog about the process from start to finish [...]

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