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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 |
Frame Materials
Frame Materials Weight, strength, safety, and frame materials It's been said that most people care about three things: sex, money, and food; and that cyclists care about four more things: price, numb |
Graphics
Graphics Model names should be readable but not huge. It's hard to think up good ones. Birds and mammals have been popular. So have mountains and cities or regions in Italy. All the numbers ha |
How Lugs Are Made
This originally appeared on our Blug blog in March 2013.
Making Bicycle Lugs from Rivendell Bicycle Works on Vimeo .
Read the companion blog with more pictures here: http://rivbike.tumblr.co |
Repaints, Repairs, Re-Brazeons
Repaints, repairs, re-brazeons
Several options here, listed in order of cheapest to least cheap:
Stay local. Find a frame builder who’s comfortable and experienced. If all he or she does is |
The Big Picture
The Big Picture A bike should fit you. Most riders today are riding bikes that by our standards, are too small. They make you lean over too far, which puts too much weight on your hands, and too much |
The Top Tube Ruse
The Top Tube Ruse There
is continuing widespread, rampant, epidemic, pandemic, titanic-like
misunderstanding about the actual influence of a one or two or
even-as-much-as three count 'em! centimet |
Trail, Wheelbase & Other Considerations
Wheelbase, trail, other considerations Five times a year somebody well meaning and semi-armed with a new vocabulary without much context or history, but a good intellect and a sincere desire to get t |
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