650B Wheels
650B Wheels A good, rock-solid case can be made that if the bike world were to start from scratch, 650B would be the NORMAL size. Why not? It’s in between 26-inch and 700C, so it fits a wider range |
700c Wheels
Most of you know, and no shame if you don’t, that 700C is the dominant wheel size in the modern bike world, and the biggest of the top three. The other two are 26-inches, and 650B. It sounds like tw |
700c-to-650B Conversions
CONVERTING 700c to 650B Converting 700c to 650B has been covered twice in RIvendell Readers, most recently in #39; and more info is available somewhere on the web, most probably. This online How To p |
A Few Youtube Channels
We've used a few different youtube/google accounts for videos in the past. Soon Vimeo too. ' Here are the links to our Youtube Channels Newer Stuff https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg1bictOupoSnUpwpGF |
A Kit for One Night Out
What to bring on a one-night campout What to bring bike camping. And roughly what it'll cost Sleeping bag: Compact, 1 to 2.5lbs. $150 to $310. Quite a range. Pad: 7oz to 1.5lbs, |
A Lug Primer
A Lug Primer 1. What is a lug? A sleeve of metal that surrounds the frame tube at the joint, strengthening the joint. Most modern frames don't have them. 2. How come? They're more expensive to build |
Across America on a $100 Bike
Across America on a $100 Bike
By Brendan Leonard
When a friend of mine asked if I’d like to bicycle across
the country with him, I knew which bike I was going to take: the one |
Additional Notes on Spokes & Weight
Sit down on a chair and lean your torso forward 25 degrees, so that there’s about a 65-deg angle between your thigh and your ‘orso. Now pull up your shirt and look at your belly. If it looks like |
All You Need is Wool
All you need is wool (plus a little seersucker, sucker) If the charming, gnome-like folks who live on the edge of black holes in outer space came here today and studied hikers, climbers, outdoor maga |
Bags
Nuts About Bike Bags We're nuts for bike bags. They're the best part of the bike. Any bag makes any bike more useful. The best bags make the best bikes look better while being more useful. You can't |
Bar-End Pod Install
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Bars & Tape
Bars and Tape Handle Bar Tape Bar tape is cheap and easily changed and visible, and you feel it all the time. Therefore, make it a color you like to look at, and a color that looks good with the rest |
Baskets
Why Put a Basket on a Nice Bike? Why not? is a better question. It just depends. To suave modern bicyclers, baskets are a symbol of low-brow, poor-folks, non-serious riding. But we like our ba |
Betty Foy video
Aubrie and Emily on their Rivendell bicycles.
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Broken Spokes and Their Wobbly Wheels
Spokes don’t break as much as they did in the ‘70s and earlier, because spokes got much better in the ‘80s, and spoke failures plummeted instantly. But not all spokes are good and not all wheel |
BROOKS BROOKS BROOKS SADDLES
Why we sell the Brooks models we do, and not the ones we don’t. (A saddle-by-saddle summary.)
We sell only leather saddles, and it’s been that way since the start (more than 17 years). Odd as i |
Camping vs. Touring
Bike Camping. How it's different from touring, and why you may actually have time to do some of it. And about the bike camping gear we like, use, and stock. Bike camping and bike touring are alike en |
Cantilever Brakes
Cantilever brakes Cantilever brakes are good for fat or semi-fat knobby tires, or fenders-all things which don't fit under the arch of sidepulls. And, cantilevers are more powerful than single-pivot |
Choosing a Frame Size
Choosing a Frame Size (Our bikes, and most non-Italian bikes, are measured from the center of the crank (or bottom bracket) to the top of the seat tube. In the old days this was called the English Me |
Close a quick-release skewer the right way
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