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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 [...]

• 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 [...]

• Building Up a Cyclocross Bike, Part by Part

  27 July 08 • 5 comments

  Cyclocross Magazine reader and ‘cross newbie Chris Cowan discovered ‘cross after last season, and decided he’d build himself a bike late this spring to get comfortable on it prior to his first ‘cross race. It’s up and running finally, and he’s shared his experience with us so that all of you in the same boat [...]