tears for gears

Patent searches are tons of fun. Here are a couple of patents I found that I wanted to share: Online patent searches provide a we...

Ever notice how bike maintenance goes much, much smoother when you have the correct tools? And how horribly awry things can go when you don...

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Less spoken about is the value of a drawing. Often the source of head scratching is the ori...

Just in case you hadn't noticed, I have a couple of topics I seem to write about. I'm clearly a Mavic junkie, a super-fan of late 8...

My scanner is really terrible at handling large format documents. It only fits up to legal size, so that made it a little hard to scan in t...

Trade the violin for a nice bike, and I'll agree to that. I may not NEED anything else to be happy, but there are definitely a couple o...

The last couple of years have seen some vendors slowly introducing shock-absorbing materials in to road bikes available to the public. It s...

Ever wonder what the stuff you collect now cost back in the day? It's not too terribly difficult to find vendor catalog scans with a Go...

If you ever hear an urban legend about a kid who cut off his nose with garden shears, that is categorically true - I went to junior high wit...

Ergopower was introduced by Campagnolo in 1992. For the 2 prior years, Campagnolo was without an answer to the rising popularity of Shimano...

Sometime in late 80's or early 90's, Campagnolo introduced the "century" and "graphite" finishes to their produc...

Its no secret that I have an unhealthy love of quirky, late 80's/early 90's bike stuff. In my drive to corner the market in obsol...

I've had a few people email me looking for some insight on setting up Syncro shifters. I don't claim to be all knowing on the subje...