Top Posts & Pages
- Chroming the Boxer: Jack Trumbull makes it shine
- 40 years later: The Schwinn Sports Tourer
- Converted to 650B tires: the Motobecane Grand Touring
- The two Italians in my basement are working again
- Running fixed gear with vertical dropouts: the Trek 2300
- From the top: Retroshifting the Fisher on Centerville Road
- The Goats Who Stare at Bicycles: reviews, restocking and Retroshift
- After the boom: Ray Keener talks bicycles in the 1970s and business today
- Maybe the most important thing to remember about the eccentric bottom bracket shell
- A conversation with Rob English about his 10.8-pound road bike, single-sided hubs and getting his weekends back
Search
- Follow 16incheswestofpeoria on WordPress.com
Category Archives: Bike Friday tikit
Day 25. #30daysofbiking
That’s one reason I call this website 16incheswestofpeoria. Another reason? Calling it bluebobthebellbottomedbananaboy would have been confusing. Today’s ride: On the Rock Island Greenway, just south of Bicycle Safety Town. And back to the shop.
Posted in #30daysofbiking, Bike Friday tikit, Report from the road
Tagged Rock Island Greenway, think small, trail
2 Comments
Word on the street: Al Cappello, Portapedal Bike, Tempe, Arizona
“When I get a phone call here, it’s somebody saying, hey, I love the bike, I want to order one for my wife. In architecture it’s hey, one of you guys made a mistake in the dimensions, and it’s a $25,000 mistake. Who’s going to pay for it?” Continue reading
Posted in Bike Friday tikit, Brompton, Business, Dahon, Montague bicycle, Tern Bicycles
Tagged Al Cappello, Arizona, bicycle shop, Bike Friday, Brompton Mafia, Brooks, folding bicycle, Moulton, Phoenix, Portapedal, Ryan Guzy, Tempe
Leave a comment
Installing quick-release pedals: MKS Lambda–Ezy Superior
MKS is right: you can’t install the adapter with a regular pedal wrench; I used a 15mm cone wrench to do the job. Continue reading
Posted in Bike Friday tikit, Dahon, Equipment
Tagged Ezy Superior, installation, MKS Lambda, pedals, quick release pedals
4 Comments
Tikit talk. From hair stylist to wine purveyor and business booster in Defiance, Missouri
When we got back to the car, she said, “Let’s go back to that business that had the wine in Defiance.” Turns out the Grapevine Wine Bistro & Visitor’s Center has wine and more–right there at 2886 South Highway 94, easily accessible from both trail and road. Continue reading
Posted in Bike Friday tikit, Report from the road
Tagged breakfast, cheese, Defiance, Grapevine Wine Bistro, Katy Trail, Missouri, Weldon Spring, wine
Leave a comment
Paws on the Tour de Edelstein
Monday morning. My fan gallery has arrived. He gets to the ride early to get a good view of the corner. Sure, it’s not a manhole cover in the rain during the Moline Criterium, but loose pea gravel tends to … Continue reading
In white, it must be rideable: Bike Friday tikit
Bike Friday’s recall on the tikit stem, what I call a folding riser, temporarily sidelined the entire 2007 to 2012 tikit production run. But with a warranty riser in place (which includes the portion of the frame in white, above), … Continue reading
Bike Friday tikit stem solution announced
Green Gear (aka Bike Friday) will move to a new stem design on its Bike Friday tikit. Tikit riders were recently told not to ride their bicycles because of the possibility of the stem breaking (five breaks at last report). … Continue reading
