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Chestertown, MD to Newark, DE bike ride
I'm on the east coast visiting my family this week. My mom and I enjoyed a nice mother's day weekend on the Eastern Shore (of the Cheasapeake) and today I headed up to my dad's house outside of Philadelphia. I flew out here with my folding...
Posted 12 May 2009 03:20 AM by AlexWetmore | 8 comment(s)
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Seasons Speeding Tikit Porteur
I've finished my most recent round of hacking on my Bike Friday Tikit. I call it the Seasons Speeding Tikit Porteur. Seasons because that is what Bike Friday calls the Tikit with an internal hub. Speeding because that is what they call it when you...
Posted 17 April 2009 06:21 PM by AlexWetmore | 8 comment(s)
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Accurately Measuring Cable Pull
I promissed some bike subjects again, and you can't get too much geekier than this one. I'm (slowly) working on converting my Bike Friday Tikit to use a SRAM i-Motion 9 internal hub. This bike will have drop bars and I want to convert a Shimano...
Posted 09 October 2008 04:18 PM by AlexWetmore | 15 comment(s)
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Some Projects Wrap Up, Others Begin....
I rode about 60 miles on the Cycle Truck during the last week. During the week I was just riding it as a naked bike, but yesterday I fashioned together a basic container using a recycle bin and some muffler clamps. It'll do until I have a chance to...
Posted 14 July 2008 06:42 AM by AlexWetmore | 10 comment(s)
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Big Load, Little Bike
This was taken after I collected my stuff from the BikeShack's homebrew tasting benefit party on Sunday. It was a great event and raised a good amount of money for the Shack. They were broken into a few months ago and many of the valuable tools were...
Posted 12 December 2007 02:55 PM by AlexWetmore | 1 comment(s)
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A Saturday morning folding bike breakfast
Kent, Mark and I met at the top of the I90 bridge this morning for some socializing and bike geeking. The toys of the day were my Bike Friday Tikit and Kent's Dahon Curve. Mark brought along Jan Heine's Alex Singer -- normally one of the most...
Posted 29 September 2007 11:39 PM by AlexWetmore | 17 comment(s)
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Tikit followup
This is a followup to my previous mini-report on the Bike Friday Tikit. I took it on a 10 day trip to Philadelphia, Brooklyn, and Saugerties, NY. This involved two flights and a lot of car travel. I used the bike for 3 twenty mile rides, mostly in the...
Posted 31 August 2007 05:51 AM by AlexWetmore | 5 comment(s)
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Bike Friday Tikit mini-report
My Bike Friday Tikit arrived last week. I found it at my house around 5:15pm and had it unpacked and ready to ride by 5:30. The bike unpacks really fast and I enjoyed my first ride on it (with a few component exceptions). Over the weekend I converted...
Posted 08 August 2007 05:22 AM by AlexWetmore | 11 comment(s)
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