Support your local Bike Racer
Would there still be a bike race in Philly this Summer if Bart Bowen won? Probably about the most inconsequential of “what if’s” to ponder on inauguration day 2013, still, I’ve got to wonder if had Lance not won a million dollars in 1993 at the National Championships in Philadelphia, what would cycling look like today? All the people that came to the... Read More
Hopefully there is room for two in the Coolest Shifter in the World Hot Tub
Someone shared this link with me today. http://www.bikerumor.com/2011/11/28/first-look-retroshift-brake-shift-levers-for-cyclocross/ Looks like I’m not the only one fed up with overly complicated shifter mechanisms sullying the beauty of the sport. I like the way Retroshift went about adding the shift mount directly to the brake lever, I still think my version is a little... Read More
Mycology, My apology, and maimed frame revivals (or) Failure Analysis
I feel it is a responsibility I have as a bicycle frame builder to use my personal bikes as a platform to push the envelope of design innovation and then do my damned best to tear that envelope to shreds. Hitching a trailer loaded with over 400 lbs of cargo and schlepping it over a hill proved to be the undoing of the undulating, thin walled chain stays that I’d hammered... Read More
This is not my job, Northampton CycloCross
I’ve started in a lot of Cyclo Cross races over the years, usually the minutes before the gun goes off involve some of the most gut wrenching nervousness and anticipation that I’ve ever paid for. This weekend in Northampton I decided to let the season be what it is, I haven’t been riding much and racing less and my usual fitness and drive to be competitive aren’t... Read More
Cyclo Cross Disc Brake Discussion This Morning
German Guy:Hi List, Just a brief update on the recent semiheated debate concerning an upcoming change of paradigm in cyclocross racing: The racing season has started here in Europe, and I have yet to see a single (!) racer with disc-brakes. Cheers, M. Budd:The component manufacturers still haven’t caught up, as soon as a disc system is available that doesn’t carry a... Read More
Surpassed by the Upstarts (or) Corners aren’t for Shaking Hands
I bought a secondhand cyclo-cross bike at the Trexlertown bike swap in 2002 and raced it the very next weekend. I’d raced road and mountain bikes the previous two years while I was in college and was pretty well immersed in a life of full time bike riding as a messenger running delivery in downtown Boston and getting out on the root infested and rocky New England trails... Read More
Would’a Could’a Should’a Weased but the Video Coverage almost makes me feel as if I’d been there.
The odds were favorable enough that another opportunity for physical hardship would present itself again in the next few weeks that I opted to sit down and get some drawing done while I had some momentum with it rather than hustle home faster from my errands in the deluge to beat the traffic from town west in time to get a ride out to the night weasels race in sherborn, mass on... Read More
Budd Bike Work’s October Update. BBW’s no.28 & no.29 on the Table, 17 days to my 32nd year. Three and a half weeks to Halloween and Philadelphia Bike Expo. Getting Busy Bike People
Design Draft Approved on no. 29, and tubes and dropouts and assorted bits are ready for cleaning and marking and checking and marking and checking and marking and forgetting what it was you were supposed to be doing and eating and clamping and checking and moving cutting and checking and drilling and cleaning and welding and tweaking and checking and welding and checking and eating... Read More
Fall, words failing
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August News Letter e-mail heist
http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Build-a-Bamboo-Bicycle/ Yeah, I’ve seen a bunch of these around and came across it in the NY times today, you can gorilla wrap a resined carbon or natural fiber string around the joints a bunch, vacuum bag it, and cure. Lign up the metal inserts at the head tube,bottom bracket, seat pin and dropouts then go to town on it. Neat, but I... Read More
