To pick up some extra hours and tidy up the work load, I stayed late to knock out a quick spoke replacement. The customer had come in for air and had trouble with his presta valves. I noticed the broken spoke. He left the bike. When I removed the cassette I saw he'd tossed the chain into the spokes...

Mounting inline brake levers as primaries today, I realized they could be mounted to work in either direction. I mounted them like miniature flat-bar levers, but I could easily put them on the forward-pointing portions of the time trial bar on this touring bike, just by feeding the cable through the...

If James Lipton was going to ask me what my favorite curse word is, he would have to do it early in the program. The next 15 or 20 minutes would be one long bleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep. I'm doing a conversion to linear pull brakes on a customer's nice 1988 Rockhopper. He's finally getting rid of...

Bar-top intermediate brake levers present a challenge when wrapping the bars. Depending on your level of fussiness, you may want to get a little fancy wrapping the bars up to the lever clamp. I like to do it this way. It keeps the bar wrap snug around the bar, rather than stretching it around the housing...