A Tale of Chain Suck By replacing my chain and the middle ring on my triple Sugino touring crankset I thought my problems would be solved. The chain would now drop smoothly from the middle ring to the small ring without hanging up on the bottom of the middle ring, getting dragged around and over Read More
The Bike Touring News store now has Phil Wood bottom brackets for your Long Haul Trucker (or even brand x touring bikes!) builds. Phil Wood has gained a reputation over the last 40 years or so for being the standard in durable, strong and serviceable bottom brackets. Here's a short pictorial guide Read More
Second in a series on bottom brackets. Numero uno is here. The newest (2012) Long Haul Trucker complete bikes come with the Shimano UN55 square taper bottom bracket which is an improvement over the UN-P.O.S. used in earlier years, but when asked what I might upgrade on a stock Long Haul Trucker I am likely Read More
At the risk of talking down to some readers and over the head of others I feel the need to explain the term "bottom bracket". According to Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Glossary a bottom bracket is: The part of the frame around which the pedal cranks revolve, also the bearings and axle assembly that runs through Read More
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