Gordon's Notes

Twenty years go when I wrote a post title like this one I was pretty sure at least one person who needed help would find through Google and ...

The following is copied with permission from a Facebook post by Paul McCormick (Group cycling over 60, July 3 2023). I didn't want to se...

My Bell Super Air mountain bike helmet (removable face guard) came with an undocumented snap-in GoPro mount. I figured I'd use it to ho...

A friend asked me for advice on buying a bicycle suited to dirt trails (up to novice singletrack as well as city trails). She would want to ...

Update Oct 18, 2021 : I wrote Trek a paper letter (!) about my experience and they are working on removing any references to trailside Mino ...

My trail bike is a 2010 Cannondale Scalpel I bought used. It was a state-of-the-art racing machine in the 26" era and it's light an...

Google Maps seems unbeatable. Every time Apple does an upgrade Google does three. It seems Apple can't win. But Google has weaknesses....

Last week I bicycled most of North Dakota’s Maah Daah Hey trail . The New York Times’ John O'Connor described it in 2018  (emphases mine...

This Nov 2017 crash hasn’t gotten enough attention … Tesla Strikes and Kills UK Cyclist | Bicycling.com … An 80-year-old man was killed F...

I’m not a competitive athlete, but over the past 3 years I’ve been doing a lot of exercise . This is relatively new for me. I’ve always been...

I like a quiet bike as much as the next neurotic guy. So the creaks and clicks in my 20 yo Cannondale T400 have been distracting. Like denta...

I found 2 techniques for silence squeaky disk (disc) brakes — all involving rotor cleaning. (If pads are contaminated they need to be replac...

Just did some research on bicycle traffic training options for St Paul and Minneapolis (MSP, Twin Cities). I found: Bicycle Alliance of Mi...

Emily was waiting to turn left when she was rear-ended. Our Subaru survived with injuries, the distracted driver’s car was badly damaged. At...

Cyclists are supposed to ride ‘commando’ — nothing between cycling short padded lining and the butt. Me, I don’t like to wash my cycling sh...

Bicycling Magazine has a surprisingly strong article aimed especially at mountain biker riding solo: 7 Things EMTs Wish You Knew about Bik...

My 2010 RockShox Monarch RT3 rear shock is on its deathbed. It needs a rebuild or replacement (much more expensive), but it’s hard to know i...

I’ve sent two sets of Amazon purchased SPD pedals to Shimano for warranty replacement in the past month. I’d used each set for 2-3 months wh...

Today the NYT reported on a flood of “counterfeit” bike parts out of China . The parentheses are there because the article mixes up true cou...

In the Twin Cities we have a number of places that accept bike donations, fix them up, and sell them. They use the money to fund community a...