Editor’s Note: Now that we have met some builders, Grannygear gets to the nuts and bolts of a custom build, starting with….The fit.
Over the last few articles, we have looked at the why’s and what’s of custom frames. We have heard from some of the best in the biz, whether it was in steel, aluminum, [...]

Women and 29″ers. Not two things that are normally thought of as going together, for whatever reasons. In the time that I have been around the big wheels, the mere mention of women on a big wheeled bike was often scoffed at. The thinking being that women were not well suited to the larger wheel [...]

Twenty Nine Inches just took delivery of some Geax 29″er tires. This time it is the Barro Race with the TNT bead and sidewalls. TNT is Geax’s version of tubeless ready that they call “Tube-No Tube”, thus the “TNT” moniker. The Barro Race is billed as a cross country racing tread or hardpack trail tire [...]

Editor’s Note: In this series, Grannygear introduces us to some custom frame builders and takes a closer look at the process of making and delivering a custom, handmade bicycle to a customer. In these e-mailed interviews, you will learn a lot about some of the best frame builders in three different materials.
We continue our [...]

Editor’s Note: In this series, Grannygear introduces us to some custom frame builders and takes a closer look at the process of making and delivering a custom, handmade bicycle to a customer. In these e-mailed interviews, you will learn a lot about some of the best frame builders in three different materials.
We continue our [...]

It seems that the Niner Bikes carbon fork is nearly ready to make it into the hands of trail riders out there. Niner will have a pre-order on the forks which are of a radical new design. The forks, which are carbon fiber in construction from drop outs to the steer tube, are very [...]