Recent content by PedalUma

I have no reason to post photos of myself publically. When people post images of their anatomy on datings sites they use one of these quarters for size comparison.

I am ambidextrous, so left and right don't mean as much a east and west. I just turn a bike upside to work on the drive side.

I have a Craftsman adjustable box spanner that is locking to avoid slop. It is nice in my mobile bag because it replaces a bunch of individual wrenches.

EBR, is entertainment.

When a chain is in that state it is all burnt toast on fire. It is not going to the dog's breakfast. At some point I will set the date stamp. Maybe.

I will read more, but I am so inept and lazy that I never set the date stamp on that camera. I guess I could set it to 9:00 2029. I don't need a date samp anyway, film cameras didn't have them. Ansel Adams with a date stamp?

Something that gives me the warm fuzzies happened today. A friend that approached me for the first time from EBR back in maybe June followed my tips for teaching her granddaughter to ride a bike at Halloween. Today was her first real ride and I was sent the video. The advice I gave was to remove...

It's fun to restore old tools. My bike stand is from 1964. I could have used buffing compound on it to restore it but decided to retain the patina. A couple of times I have found an old rusted ax head and fully restored it to a perfect working ax, painted and polished with a new handle.

I thought something was off. It is well over 1%. When it is this bad it means a new chain, new gear cluster, and a new chainring. What is sort of cool is that because I am always shifting, all three wore evenly together and it only started minor skipping today. Oh, that outer chainring is only...

An anthropologist might say we are defined by three things; our tools, or art, and our garbage.

I have a friend in a nursing home who is out of shape and uses a walker. I visit him and his roommates a couple of times a week and bring small gifts and show them new bike builds. I also get him on a pedal assist throttle bike a couple of times each week just to get him moving. You still need...

It is true that any movement is better than sitting on a couch. I have not sat on a couch for about a dozen years. It is like smoking. If you get him on a trike have him do figure eights in a vacant parking lot for 20 minutes a day for three days. Then he will get the hang of it. Then turn him...

On the DM02 one can go into Device and there are 15 options, scroll down past the bottom to Battery setting the three parameters, then press Up and Down at the middle one to set all the percentages of how the power displays. You shape it like a sperm whale curve. Heavy on the front end with a...

It is an insult to Americans. Heavy, fat, and lazy stereotypes reinforced. It is designed for 400 pounders not cyclists. It does not belong on a mountain and I do not know where it belongs. Maybe a trailer park in Florida.

How the best gravel frames in the the world are made. Multi-part, in GB. See them all. Handcrafted bikes. They kick butt over the off the shelf ones.