Archive for the ‘bikes/bits’ Category

A Bike of Interest

The time has come to sell my Swedish cykel. Originally sourced from the Swedish Craigslist equivilent (blocket.se), and then resourcefully added to, and turned into a fixed-gear with Casey’s help during a marathon g-chat session.
The frame is a 57cm lugged DBS (Den Beste Sykkel – “The Best Bike”) which is a well known Norwegian bike [...]

Mission Bicycle

I like this concept. I wonder how well they sell though.

Mission Bicycle Company

Cleaning out the Drafts: whats efficiency got to do got to do with it?

Originally written Feb 4, 2008

In 1903 the Wright brothers flew for a few seconds in a heavier than air craft of their own design. They worked outside of typical aeronautics thought, reworking and recalculating established thought. The wooden propeller they developed, hand hewn from laminated wood, was 83% efficient. Modern Propellers, the [...]

Cleaning out the drafts: Dingleberry remover

I’d better get this out of the way since I said I would and the Ridelugged overlord took the time to give me an account.  No napkin drawings for Johnson, but

this is just too good

a website of Casey’s favorite material and its, lets say, issues:

plus they found someone who did one better than my broken and repaired record rear mech:

Bikes save lives….

I was reading some news on the BBC site and found this interesting piece on a bicycle ambulance.
Dig it….
Bicycle Ambulance

a new frame for our retrogrouches

the apex of synergy between classic and high-tech!!
check it out at velo orange and velo news.
(unfortunately they opted out of the extra set of seatstays of the true mixte.)

The STASH

Recently I saw this post on Retro-Bike and am not sure if you, the readers of all things lugged, have also seen this. Apparently this guy has the ultimate collection of all things 90’s and mountain bike.
Ultimate Collection?
Here’s a teaser pic.

The Safety bike revisited

Sometimes when you work in a shop too long, ideas can be thought to be good ones. Like the day an employee decided he was gonna leave his bike in the work area in a stand overnight, and well into the next day as well. When two childish shop employees went about their daily ritual [...]

Hang ‘em high

So as I sit in a flu-induced funk surrounded by achiness and tiredness, fueled by Pandora and Soy Nuts…?, I figured, “Why not post something on RideLugged!?!”
So recently I decided I was gonna do something about all my bikes laying around amongst each other with pedals sticking in spokes and handlebars mingling like drunken high [...]