Category: How To’s/Tech Tips

In a previous article, I mentioned that Coconut Oil is great for your skin. But I’m sure you’ve heard all the talk about the benefits of coconut water and you’ve probably seen all the packaged coconut water in your local grocery store. Though, packaged water is great for hydration, a small container of it can…

Check it out ganstas, our friend Joe Kidd who is a smart young man showed up to the trail with his homemade HID bicycle light. Yes you read it right, HID as in “high intensity discharge” Some basic info on Joe Kidd’s light. It uses a projector headlight from a car. The HID (high intensity…

One of my favorite things to do is take an existing bike and make it more interesting. The Redline D600 is a prime example of it. This bike started off as a 24speed, 29er, then it got transformed into Burt ReynoldSS…the rigid single speed that you see below. But this morning I was in the…

We received some Yokozuna Disc Brake Pads to test out on my Avid Elixir 5 for Cross Country use. As you can see my old OEM pad needed replacing. I’ve went ahead and installed both front and rear pads to test out. Stay tuned for the upcoming review.

Recently I noticed there was a scratch on the lens of LadyP’s GoPro Hero2. Not sure if you can see it on this photo, but there’s a little scratch. Though the scratch is small, I didn’t think it would affect the camera’s ability to take video or photos. But check out this photo, notice the…

In response to the DRINKING ARTICLE, I’ve heard that chocolate milk is a fantastic post ride recovery drink. It also makes it cheaper than Muscle Milk or any type of Protein Shake you can buy. I figured I’d get on the bandwagon and give it a try. But when I did…PRRRRRT! Yup you guessed it,…

For the most part I can work on pretty much every part of a bike. From shocks, forks, derailleurs and even disc brakes. But when the KHS XCT 556 needed a brake pad replacement, I tried to bleed the brakes myself and found that I had a short attention span because I must have missed…

The other day I was hanging out with Animal. I told him how I inherited a great professional grade Park Truing Stand. I was telling him that because of this tool, I’ve learned how to properly true and etc. Animal looks at me, chuckles and told me to look at the two zip ties in…

The title was in reference to Burt ReynoldSS again…yep. It’s back because last night during our ride, I dropped the chain 7 times! The zip tie method does work…up to a certain point. The problem I had was there was still a bit of play on my chain line and every time I hit a…