Fly test monkey, fly (or) a hillbilly will mount anything

The prototype BBW anti STI pods are moving on to the bikes of my trusted test pilots ahead of the scheduled beta production run. Re-dubbed the Hill Billy shifter, these mounts are designed to let you get away with not spending $300 to put another disposable integrated shift/brake lever on your drop bar bike.  They’ll take any old down tube shifter. Run friction, shoot, it don’t care, thing  woke up next to a dag garn goat this morning .  Read More

Shifting (or) The Shimano Conspiracy

Once upon a time there was a company called Suntour, they were a Japanese component manufacturer that competed with but never quite got the market share of their neighbor, the big S. Their high end componentry was beautiful, precise, and in almost all cases simple. The name still exists out there in the bike world but has never meant the same thing since the time of their demise during the shifting battles that heated up in the early 1990′s... Read More