Category: My Bikes
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Reimagining the Dew
Sometimes I reimagine one of the several bikes hanging on my wall and sometimes I actually carry my reimagining on to the reinventing stage. Such is the case with my Kona Dew. Now I’ve put a lot of miles on the Dew, but all of those miles were as a hybrid bike, riding gravel, pavement,…
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First Ride – Reassembled Raleigh International
This afternoon I took out the Raleigh International on a maiden voyage of sorts. This is the Raleigh International that I had the great fortune to come across last summer. The bikes original owner was unable to complete the restoration that he had started on a bike that he himself had purchased new back in…
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Stumpjumper Day
Stumpjumper Day. I think that has a nice ring to it? Maybe it should always follow Independence Day, like Boxing Day follows Christmas. I spent the first Stumpjumper Day riding my early model Stumpjumper up the long grade to the Galbraith towers. It was a busy day on Galbraith, but most on the road were…
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1952 Raleigh Sports
Always amazed at what you can run across in Bellingham. While window shopping Facebook Marketplace a couple of days ago for a more fuel efficient car, I stumbled into my latest bike. It is a 1952 orange red Raleigh Sports with not only working dynohub and lights, but also a semi-rare Sturmey-Archer 4-speed. The paint…
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Jones H-Bar
Consider me sold on the Jones H-Bar, at least for the Kona Dew that I ride mostly on mixed loops of pavement, paths and light single track. I purchased from Jones, installed it a few months back, and now have several hundred miles of riding on them. I was interested in them because as I…
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oops
Oops, I did it again. My wife went out of town and I got another bike. Thinking about it, perhaps there is a pattern there, maybe? What I did was purchaseI, for a small sum, a Kona Dew hybrid/urban bike, but what I really did was solve the gear ratio problem I was wrestling with…
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