Category: Cycling
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20 Years
20 years ago in the (northern hemisphere) spring of 2006 I bought a used Stirling Silver 2001 Gunnar Crosshairs from Karl at Klunk Cycles in Columbia, MO. It was my first dropbar bike, and I rode it off-road far more than on anything paved. In mid-Missouri there was the MKT and Katy Trail, somehow both…
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Drivetrains
I recently read a fun article by Rob English over on Escape Collective about assembling various mechanical and electronic drivetrains in useful, non-standard ways. While my drivetrains aren’t quite as exotic as most of these, some are quirky in their own ways. I’ve included only complete or soon-to-be-completed bikes and only bikes that I regularly…
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Melbourne Route Planning and Cycle Maps
I generally use the Strava route planner for pre-ride planning and Trail Forks for navigating while riding. But, what’s out there for exploring paths and dirt around Melbourne beyond the standard Strava (strava.com/maps), Komoot (komoot.com/discover), and Trail Forks (trailforks.com/trails/map) maps? VicBUG The relatively new vicbug.app and their web app (vicbug.app/route-builder.html) offers significantly more detail and…