Fantastic comment. Only item I might disagree on is bearings IF the bike has cartridge bearings as those are easy to work with. If it’s cup and cone/loose ball then yea, I’d recommend just letting the shop do it only because cone wrenches are a pretty specific tool.
Lots of bike shops (especially community bike shops) offer inexpensive courses on bike maintenance which are a great option for learning.
May also be an imperfectly aligned brake pad rubbing the tire.
Fines clearly don’t work. We need criminal penalties.
Yep - I identify as male, but I put he/they in my email signature because I a) want to signal active support for the trans community and b) don’t really think about my own gender much and kind of like de-gendering my language wherever possible.
I think a more apt title is ‘10 totally impractical bikes that mostly don’t exist beyond renders!’.
Yanko is click bait titled listicles. Don’t support low effort trash.
Beats me, but I’d love to see the answer.
Thanks! I was going for a vintage Yeti vibe.
Cheap powdercoating is one of my favourite things about steel frames. I can get a frame sand blasted and powdercoated for $150CAD. I ride my bike until the paint is damaged and I’m starting to get a bit of rust in spots- then pick a wild new colour, get some decals made and just like that I have a brand new looking bike.
When asked how many customers would be affected, the company said that while precise numbers are not yet available, up to four customers may be impacted. “I would like offer our sincere apologies to Aunt Sue, Uncle Frank, Mike, and Jodi.”
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I’ve got a soft spot for Kona - I’ve owned at least 5 that I can think of including my very first mountain bike which got me addicted to the sport. That bike now hangs on the wall of my office.
I hope the brand gets back on track and building fun, high value, unpretentious, tough as nails bikes.
This reads like a train wreck start to finish.
The number of PSAs about not getting mowed down during Halloween was absurd. ‘Wear reflective vests’, ‘only cross the street in groups’ - and not a single ‘hey, it’s Halloween and there’s going to be excited kids everywhere - please avoid driving and if you have to, be super extra careful’.
My partner’s idea, which I thought was brilliant, was that the speed limit on all residential streets should be dropped to 20km/h for the day.
Planet Bike seems to have mostly disappeared from the Canadian market - their new Rojo 100 looks sweet though!
There’s a difference between defending oneself and engaging in collective punishment and genocide. I am Jewish and the descendent of holocaust survivors. Not in my name.