December 2010

Take our Stuff Please (a.k.a. A Cycling Book Giveaway)

By Sheila on 12.30.10

Days are short and cold in Vermont, so we’ve been focused less on outdoor activities, like building our teeny house, and more on indoor activities, like building my bicycle, finalizing our gear list for our tour, and sorting through the last of our stuff to sell or give away.

While sorting through our things we found CYCLING BOOKS. Lots of them. So, we thought, why not [Read More…]

DIY Rack Mounted Light Bracket & EOS Bike Light

By Kai on 12.18.10

Entirely engrossed in my work – jigsaw, file, and belt-sander in hand – I couldn’t help but recall many a remarkable full-dark, late-night bike rides in the days before I started flying airplanes; solo nighttime rides that regularly took me 30 or 40 miles from home with only the focused beam of a Nite Rider Pro 6 lamp to guide me.

I recall these [Read More…]

The Building of My Bike: The Frame V

By Sheila on 12.14.10

Folk Engineered put the finishing touches on my frame and fork and it’s safe to say that I was thrilled to see photos of the final product today. I’ve only been through their facebook album 30 times tonight and I still can’t believe she’s mine! Gorgeous, strong, elegant. What more could a girl ask for?

**All photos by Folk [Read More…]

The Building of My Bike: The Frame IV

By Sheila on 12.07.10

More progress on my frame! See more photos via Folk Engineered’s Facebook page.

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Finishing Touches: Kai’s Bicycle

By Kai on 12.03.10

A couple of items I alluded to in my previous post about my Fat City bicycle restoration arrived in the mail today. Naturally, I quickly set to work installing them on my bicycle. “Naturally”, because even though I should have been working to finalize the insulation design on [Read More…]