Recreational shooting and other stuff
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
Looking at my current stable of two-wheeled toys, it was apparent that road bikes were woefully under-represented. Since I don’t much appreciate the harsh ride that modern aluminum bikes offer, even with carbon forks, I knew I’d need to find something in steel. And although I’ve ridden everything from downtube-mounted Sachs Huret friction shifters, right … Read more
Approximately 6,400 bikes equipped with Easton EA30 stems are being recalled, as the stems can crack, causing a steering failure. There has only been one result of a failure resulting in injury so far. Models being recalled are all Raleigh 2007, XXIX 700c MTN, RX1.0, Diamondback 2007, Mission, and Sortie bicycles with EA30 stems. The … Read more