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Why Repair a Snow Shovel?
Tagged: diy project winter opinion
Everyone in my life is familiar with my shit by now. I find things in back alleys and take them home. It’s a compulsion. I collect trash like a corvid. This time I brought home a broken snow shovel.
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Of Wrecks and Repairs
Two of my friends had bicycle accidents this summer. One minor, one very major. While I think cycling can be a safe way to get around your city, the potential for accidents is quite high, and the potential severity of those accidents is worrying. Regardless, I think you should keep riding.
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Bikewatch: Montreal
Earlier this year my partner and I took a trip to Montreal, which is one of the premiere bikeable cities in Canada. While we were there, I made a point of trying to photograph bikes on the street that I found notable or interesting. I’ve documented some of my observations here - no scientific goal or structured data gathering. Just following my nose.
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Bikezilla
Technically, none of my bikes are the right size for me. That ends now. This is me finding a frame that fits and building a bike with my best parts. A new daily driver.
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The Joker: The Bike
For a long time I’d been looking at folding bikes with muted desire in my heart. I didn’t particularly want to buy one, since I didn’t really need one. I also didn’t imagine they’d be that nice to ride. Full sized bikes are more modular and practical.
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Red Linus
Last Autumn I had a windfall find: a red Linus cruiser bike with an internally geared hub. After plundering the rear wheel and using it all winter, I decided to rebuild the bike itself.
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The Lost Kona
I found another trashed bike.
This one was by a dumpster on the edge of a mall parking lot - a deviation from my usual back alley finds. It was missing a front wheel and had a tree branch lashed to the rear chainstay. Probably something jury-rigged for towing.
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The Raleigh Tangent
My mission to build bikes for my friends continues. You may remember from my post about The Purple Cruiser that my dad found a couple nice 90s Mountain Bikes in the trash and I stole parts from them. One of the frames was garbage, but the other, a Raleigh Tangent, seemed to be in very good shape.
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Green Steel Trash
As is probably plainly obvious to anyone who has spent any time browsing this site, most of my bike stuff (and general project stuff) comes from back alleys and thrift shops. I generally just take whatever I can find and work with it.
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Internal Gearing for Winter
Tagged: bike diy project winter
Last year I survived my first winter as a cyclist. This winter, I planned to do much the same thing - throw my leftover chain and brake pads on my old Huffy frame and wear it down over the winter, and then rebuild all my bikes in spring and return to easy, fairweather cycling. Winter, of course, had other plans for me.
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