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Tools every bike tinkerer needs

What follows herein is the bike tinkerer's list of essential tools. Any less and you're a caveman. All these specialty tools can be had for quite a small sum compared with the many thousands a pro shop will spend on its tools.

by Slowman, March 6, 2008

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A man-skills workshop

Updated from its original publication in 2004, this article is the answer to a Slowtwitch Forum user who once posted: "[Blank] the car, I'm putting a bike workshop in the garage." His post asked for advice, and this is it.

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The Physics of Moving a Bike

How power propels a bike: This is the second of two introductory articles preparing for a year-long series on training with power.

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X/Y Rules for cycling: After the “peer review”

The nice thing about the Internet -- or the maddening thing, if you like finality -- is that there rarely is any finality. Articles that we publish are not the last word on a subject, they're typically the first word.

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X/Y Rules in an Angular World

In barely a month USA Cycling joins the UCI in legislating the Randy Newman ethic: "Don't want no short people round here." Fortunately, there is a deceptively easy alternative for both of cycling's governing bodies.

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The Aerodynamics of hand height

Floyd Landis, Fabian Cancellara, Dave Zabriskie, Levi Leipheimer have all raced with the "hands in face" position. John Cobb pulls out of his wind tunnel archives an analysis of hand heights.

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Trek’s wind tunnel white paper

Trek's engineers went public with their latest Equinox TTX wind tunnel test to counteract what it called spotty and erroneous assumptions about its recent data.

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Proprietary rubber in today’s tri wetsuits

There are several companies that say they have rubber nobody else has. Let's take a look at those claims, and the rubber they're using, and see what we can glean about the state of materials in the wetsuits we use today.

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Tires and wheels for timed cycling events

If the frame of a bicycle represents the “heart” of a bicycle, it can be argued that wheels and tires represent the “soul”.

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Yet more wheel size debates

After two decades of heated declarations and ill-informed pronouncements, there remains not one shred of evidence suggesting one of these wheel sizes is inherently superior to the other. And yet...

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Characteristics of good triathlon wetsuits

The truth is, almost every wetsuit feature has a corresponding detriment, and certain features have only the detriment, and no corresponding asset. You must decide what features matter to you.

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The Hooker

It's considered the aerodynamic benchmark for double-diamond (front and rear triangle) bikes.

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Rolling resistance

Practitioners of motorized sports recognized the traction benefits of slick tires a long time ago.