Quentin’s Bike Stuff

I have finally completed assembly of both bikes, so here they are. First, the 58 cm bike that I will be riding. I will eventually put...

The logical choice for components for the MC286 is to install a road drivetrain and a set of mountain bike wheels because 142x12 rear wheel...

The MC286 frames arrived earlier this week. The total time from placing the order to arrival at my doorstep was a little over 7 weeks. ...

Last summer, I moved from central Illinois to west Texas. I've done some riding since then, but not as much as I'd like to because I...

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...