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• Mechanical Mondays: Setting Up Those Brakes

  28 May 12 • 4 comments

  

  It’s the off-season, so it’s time to be making changes to your cyclocross bike after what you experienced last season. For some, that could mean swapping brakes. Daimeon Shanks, pro mechanic and co-owner of The Service Course repair shop in Boulder, Colorado, will show you the finicky way of the cyclocross brake. Daimo shares his [...]

• Gut-Wrenching Mechanical Mondays: Pit Tools!

  15 November 10 • 1 comment

  Daimeon Shanks, pro mechanic and co-owner of The Service Course repair shop in Boulder, Colorado, has compiled his list of must-haves for the cyclocross pits. Missed the last article on brake setup? Go back and check it out. Now that you’re licking your – and your bike’s – wounds from this past weekend, prepare for [...]

• An Interview with Jason Gardner, the Genie-Wrench Behind Jinji Cycles

  11 September 10 • 1 comment

  by Lee Waldman One of the people who made my ’cross season last year run so smoothly was my mechanic, Jason Gardner, owner of Jinji Cycles. I love his motto: “Engineering a higher standard in bicycle maintenance and repair.” It was so nice to be able to drop off my dirty bikes at Jason’s shop [...]

• An Interview with Todd Gold, the Organic Mechanic

  18 August 10 • 0 comment

  I met Todd Gold on a cyclocross training ride last fall. He appeared to be just another guy who was younger and faster than I was as he rode me off of his wheel up a longish grind. Later on that evening as we were cooling down, I learned a bit more about him. He [...]