Recreational shooting and other stuff
Brian Welcome to the holiday season! I’ve been so busy with shopping for bike parts, replacing bike parts, testing bike parts, buying and selling bike parts on eBay, and even sneaking a few rides in when it wasn’t snowing or freezing, I’ve neglected to write anything. Rather than take yet another cheap shot at vBulletin4 beta, … Read more
This is getting pretty old: Bikeforums.net is currently down for scheduled maintenance. We will be back as soon as possible. We apologize for the inconvenience. – Internet Brands Bike Forums Part two: Bikeforums is down for a scheduled upgrade. We should be back up around 7:00PM (PST).Update 2:we just have one little bug to fix…. … Read more
In a normal year, I make exactly nothing from my blog. That doesn’t quite cover the nominal cost of domain registration or the hosting bill. If you’d like to contribute something to offset the cost, feel free to click through the ads to the right and buy something nice for yourself, or a cyclist friend. … Read more
Salt Lake City will never be Portland, but it gets a little closer every day. Recently, the City Council approved a resolution that would allow all of the 150-175 unclaimed bicycles that the police collect each year to be donated to the city’s nonprofit bicycle collective. Usually, they would be kept for 90 days, then … Read more
Not too long ago, a friend sent me a link to an article about KVA Stainless steel. To save you the trouble of reading about the company, and the article about them, let me sum it up for you. After being turned down by Ford, KVA decided to make tubing for bicycle frames. To say … Read more
The bike: Wabi Cycles Classic The details: A hand-built Reynolds 725 frame with classic road geometry and hand-brazed Reynolds chromoly fork. Rolls on Jalco hoops laced to Joy Tech sealed hubs with double-butted, stainless spokes, all wrapped up in Kenda Koncept Lite 235gram 700×23 rubber. Flip-flop rear hub for fixed gear or single speed riding. … Read more