Analog Resistance: Why Mechanical Simplicity Matters in an Increasingly Digital Cycling World
Cycling has always had a strange relationship with progress. It worships the new while pretending to honour the old. It sells nostalgia in carbon fibre, freedom through proprietary parts, and simplicity through increasingly complicated systems. Somewhere along the way, the bicycle began to sprout nerves that were not ours. Electronic shifting. Hydraulic lockouts. Wireless drivetrains.…
The Physics of Tracklocross: Why Chain Tension Is My Obsession
I begin, as all questionable fixations do, with something that appears entirely reasonable. A bicycle. Two sprockets. A chain stretched between them with just enough defiance to hum when persuaded. Nothing extravagant, nothing especially clever. And yet, remove the freewheel, that small mechanical indulgence that allows one to disengage from consequence, and the entire enterprise…
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