Quentin’s Bike Stuff

I've become a believer in riding on the widest possible tire for the application. After many years riding very skinny tires, I decided ...

I finished assembling the bike just a couple of weeks after my last posting about the frame's arrival, but I have been very busy (includ...

My new frame arrived from China last week, about 4 weeks after placing the order. As far as I can tell, the shipping only took just over a w...

Over the last couple of years Heather and I have been riding together more, and we've been doing more rides with the kids on the tandem...

Last year  I switched the Bike Friday tandem to road-style drop handlebars. The Sachs (now SRAM) Dual Drive system has a 3 speed internally ...

Ever since threadless headsets became standard on most new bikes (maybe 15 years ago), headset caps have become a popular way to customize ...

In  my first post about my Bike Friday tandem  from last year, I showed a picture of the Ride2 crank shorteners I first used for making the...

I already wrote previously about my Bike Friday Family Tandem . I used it for over 2 years in the configuration it came in: flat handlebars...

Some time in the late 1980s, I bought this neoprene headband from the Performance Bike Shop in Boulder, Colorado. Since then, it's been ...

I wrote a couple of months ago about acquiring a second tandem . As I noted then, the Raleigh tandems look like a great option for riding wi...

As noted in my prior posting about tandem trailers, I've decided they aren't safe and have given up on the one we have. With my chi...

After buying a tandem trailer, we used that in conjunction with the child trailer for one summer, with each parent pulling one of the traile...