Cycling

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Contents 1 Bicycle maintenance and building 2 Cycle touring 3 Audax 4 Events 5 Articles 6 Cycling talk 7 Cycle Couriers 8 Legal / Insurance

Bicycle maintenance and building

• Sheldon Brown
• List of bicycle shops
• Fixed gear
• Folding bikes
• Bike Forest A website full of weird and wonderful bikes and ideas.
• Rivercity Bicycles 'Reacharound', or a piece of metal that helps you put mudguards (fenders) on a bike with tight clearances.
• Jim Langley's maintenance articles.
• Campagnolo Ergopower 10sp shifters with Shimano 9sp derailleurs on Hubbub, lists a solution to combine Campagnolo 10speed shifters with Shimano 9speed rear derailleurs.
• Rear shifting, a good article on the CTC website about different speed mechs, shifters and indexing.
• Shiftmate: a widget that alters cable pull for combining Campag Ergopowers with Shimano derailleurs/blocks and the other way around. They have different models for different combinations, with a nice chart on the website.
• Inspired Cycle engineering do short spokes for small wheel bikes (they cut down and re-thread).
• The king of derailleur hangers claims he can source any derailleur hanger, and ships worldwide
• Spoking patterns good info about Crow's foot spoking pattern
• Cycling cadence and bicycle gearing good article about how to plan gears.
• Adjusting cantilevers and cantilever geometry
• Carradice hacks
• Brooks butchering and lacing
• Keep it quiet: bicycle noises, clicks, ticks, rattles and how to fix them
• Mercian cycles register
• Wheel building picture tutorial

Cycle touring

• The Alps
• CTC I don't cycle with them, but I'm a member. Good discounts in their shop, plus if you ever have an accident, they give you legal aid. They campaign for all things bicycle in the UK though, which is in itself a good enough reason to be a member.
• Sustrans
• Gordon Taylor has a kitlist, under bikes

Audax

• Audax UK
• PBP or Paris-Brest-Paris
• LEL
• 3D 300 Good write-up by Kitzy and Charlotte.

Events

• La Marmotte
• Dunwich Dynamo
• The Dragon Ride
• Circuit of the Cotswolds: the David Ryan challenge
• Lands End to John o' Groats
• Wansdyke Triathlon
• Exmouth Exodus

Articles

• Peter White on how to fit a bicycle
• Myra VanInwegen's bike articles
• Which chain for a fixed bike
• Basic preparation for an Audax randonee (200km or longer)
• Dave Yates on Audax
• Rear shifting: lots of useful information on gear changing, including a Shimano-Campagnolo compatibility chart for mixing components.

Cycling talk

• Bikereader: some very good essays on cycling related matters as well as a forum. The Library board contains the best posts on the forum.
• Cycling plus: the magazine's website. It has a very active forum
• Sam Fleming has some good essays on her site.
• John Franklin's cycling digest. Haven't read this yet, but looks like there might be some good stuff on there.
• The lazy cyclist by Andy Gates
• Cowper's world Racing and Time Trialling
• Some good tips: on keeping your feet warm cheaply, keep your chest warm with Vileda, tri bar modifications, cheap mudguard flap

Cycle Couriers

• An account of someone who tried it
• London bicycle messengers association

Legal / Insurance

• Stolen bike descriptions for Brick Lane market