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Brompton folding bikes « Practical Biking
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Biking for everyday transportation. This 'n' that. Traveling with a bike. How to stiffen the suspension on a Brompton folding bike. Brompton folding bikes have a miniature shock absorber between the seat post and the rear wheel. This suspension block, in Brompton parlance, is a solid cylinder of hard, black, rubber-like material that’s about an inch and a half (38 mm) in diameter and just under two inches (50 mm) long. When you go over a […]. January 29th, 2012 by Scott Category: Brompton folding bikes.
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Books « Practical Biking
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Biking for everyday transportation. This 'n' that. Traveling with a bike. Book review: Big Blue Book of Bike Repair, 2nd Edition. I learned from dad that, in everyday life, little qualifies as rocket science. You may not care enough to learn how to change the oil in your car or build a closet or clear a slow drain, or you may not care enough to buy the necessary tools, but it’s still not rocket science. The […]. July 18th, 2010 by Scott Category: Books,. Why I ride a Brompton folding bike.
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Cargo bikes « Practical Biking
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Biking for everyday transportation. This 'n' that. Traveling with a bike. Fuller Brush man in Kunming, China. Recently, my friend Julie, the education director for the Cascade Bicycle Club, asked whether I had any photographs of bikes in China, where I’d spent some time a couple of years ago. I remembered a few, but when I went trolling through the China pictures, I found scores of pictures worth sharing. Here’s my […]. May 1st, 2010 by Scott Category: Cargo bikes,. Why I ride a Brompton folding bike.
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Clothing « Practical Biking
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Biking for everyday transportation. This 'n' that. Traveling with a bike. What to wear for a short bike ride. I was talking with my neighbor Ben, one of the owners of the JRA Bike Shop in the Seattle neighborhood of Crown Hill, about what to wear for a short bike ride. He told me about a Yehuda Moon comic strip in which a customer comes into the Kickstand Cyclery looking for bike clothes for […]. December 30th, 2009 by Scott Category: Clothing,. How to stiffen the suspension on a Brompton folding bike.
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Helmets « Practical Biking
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Biking for everyday transportation. This 'n' that. Traveling with a bike. How to choose a bike helmet. Any activity with a large number of participants has its religious wars, pitting one group of true believers against another. Biking has plenty of these pointless, internecine battles, including, but certainly not limited to, roadies vs. mountain bikers, lovers of Lycra vs. wearers of wool, and posteriors on plastic seats vs. tooshes on tanned-leather saddles. […]. Why I ride a Brompton folding bike.
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Tires and tubes « Practical Biking
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Biking for everyday transportation. This 'n' that. Traveling with a bike. The differences between Schrader and Presta inner-tube valves. If you always inflate your bike tires at a gas station and have your local bike shop fix your flat tires, you needn’t worry about whether the inner tubes in your tires have Schrader or Presta valves. However, if you want to buy replacement tubes so you can fix your own flats or buy a […]. May 1st, 2010 by Scott Category: Tires and tubes. How to choose a bike helmet.
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Choosing a bike « Practical Biking
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Biking for everyday transportation. This 'n' that. Traveling with a bike. Why I ride a Brompton folding bike. This is Practical Biking, not Practical Folding Biking, so I’ve resisted the temptation to ramble on about my delightfully practical Brompton folding bike, but Velouria over at Lovely Bicycle wrote an homage to the Brompton a while back, and she’d only taken a quick jaunt. (More recently, she gave a Brompton a two-day test […]. August 8th, 2011 by Scott Category: Brompton folding bikes,.
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Getting started « Practical Biking
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Biking for everyday transportation. This 'n' that. Traveling with a bike. What to wear for a short bike ride. I was talking with my neighbor Ben, one of the owners of the JRA Bike Shop in the Seattle neighborhood of Crown Hill, about what to wear for a short bike ride. He told me about a Yehuda Moon comic strip in which a customer comes into the Kickstand Cyclery looking for bike clothes for […]. December 30th, 2009 by Scott Category: Clothing,. How to stiffen the suspension on a Brompton folding bike.
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Lights « Practical Biking
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Biking for everyday transportation. This 'n' that. Traveling with a bike. Installing a Down Low Glow on a Brompton. One of the Bromptonauts on the BromptonTalk group at Yahoo was asking whether you can install a Down Low Glow on a Brompton. I reported that I’d installed one and that I’d had a great experience riding with it. Cars give me a wider berth than before I installed the DLG, and passersby, including car […]. January 30th, 2010 by Scott Category: Folding bikes,. Why I ride a Brompton folding bike.
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Commuting by bike « Practical Biking
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Biking for everyday transportation. This 'n' that. Traveling with a bike. Why I ride a Brompton folding bike. This is Practical Biking, not Practical Folding Biking, so I’ve resisted the temptation to ramble on about my delightfully practical Brompton folding bike, but Velouria over at Lovely Bicycle wrote an homage to the Brompton a while back, and she’d only taken a quick jaunt. (More recently, she gave a Brompton a two-day test […]. August 8th, 2011 by Scott Category: Brompton folding bikes,.