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Category Archives: Thinking about bikes

Anyone have suggestions for bags (front)?

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

I’m looking for a good front bag. I want something with a bit of style that isn’t the typical black nylon affair. Right now I’m leaning towards the baggins bar bag or the ostrich bag. I’m not in love with either, I like the functionality of the ostrich bag (especially the map window) but the [...]

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Picking parts for my wheels II (spoke length)

Thursday, January 22, 2009

In my last post I talked about picking the parts for the wheels. I glossed over one super important detail. Picking out the length of your spokes. Spokes are sold in all different sizes (and shapes as well). The size you need depends on what hub you are using and the rim you are using, [...]

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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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