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Jones H-Bar® Setup Guide

For ages, they've been the standard.  They're nearly as ubiquitous as racks and panniers on touring bikes around the world but can also be found on road racing steeds, track bikes, cyclocross machines, commuting rigs or even mountain bikes.  I'm talking about drop bars.  Ask just about anyone what a bicycle handlebar looks like and Read More

The wintertime (known to some among us as the "off-season") is a great time to experiment with your bike setup and few components can transform the ride of a bike like handlebars. Unlike many so-called "performance" upgrades that claim to offer weight savings, greater precision or improved efficiency, different handlebars change the way your body Read More

In Defense of Bar-End Shifters

We are often asked why Surly specs bar-end shifters rather than integrated brake/shift levers on the Long Haul Trucker, Disc Trucker and Cross-Check.  This is a good question and one we thought warranted some explanation. When you walk into most bike shops, you'll most likely find that every single new bike with drop bars is fitted Read More

Jones Bars

Journalism is a tough business. Those not involved don't understand the sacrifices reporters make in order to enlighten and entertain them. As an example, I could not get the wi-fi connection to work at the Woodland Empire brewery and I had to walk almost 200 feet to Pre-Funk tap room in order to find a Read More

Top mount thumb shifters

So I had a Bridgestone MB-1 circa 1992, I think....might have been '93. A poor fellow, down on his luck, or perhaps his brain addled from meth or crack cocaine, determined that he was deserving of such a bike. And so he took it. The Bike Hermit is always happy to help those less fortunate Read More