The theme for the 2012 North American Handmade Bicycle Show is fat-bikes! At least in the bike hermit's feeble mind. First up is Joseph Ahearne's take on the genre. I was able to squeeze in this interview when he wasn't bombarded with customers and we talked about this bike as well as the other off-road Read More
" ....mixing with people is wonderfully appropriate. So are visits to foreign lands........mainly learning of the humours of those peoples and of their manners, and knocking off our corners by rubbing our brains against other people's." - Montaigne Traveling by bicycle puts one literally at the ground level. We are subject to all of nature's Read More
WOOD http://youtu.be/q3utt2Y5aH0 METAL http://youtu.be/ugxS2wNzAeU Read More
The Bike Hermit has a pair of MKS Unique pedals purchased in 1972 for the then princely sum of $25.00. The Mikashima Industrial Company, LTD in Japan has been making pedals since 1946 and is obviously doing something right. What follows is an overview of two of the dozens of pedal models the company offers Read More
"a primitive and unconfined type of recreation" Customer and friend Wendell came in the other day with his new Salsa Fargo "adventure" touring bike. As we were talking about places to go with such a bike he mentioned the Owyhee Uplands Backcountry Byway (which sounds much better than the local name of Mud Flats Road) Read More
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