Junk Miles

A roundup of  bike things I tried and liked in 2009 – an annual new year’s tradition on the iBOB bike list:

Cyclocross brake levers – they’re great for using drop bars offroad, since I want to keep my bars set up for road riding, not high and close for ‘cross. They’re great for riding on the bar tops in city traffic too.

Jandd Mountain Wedge III: A really big seat bag. It holds what I need for all-day autumn rides (lunch, rain shell, gloves, extra warm layer, digicam, tools & tube) and it expands to hold even more. It fits any saddle, which is good since I gave up on Brookses after having the second one stolen off the bike a couple of years ago.

Planet Bike Blaze 2W: I gather from recent discussions on the BOB list  that there are other, possibly better LED lights around, but this is the one I tried, and I like it. It’s plenty bright (my previous LEDs were just adequate) and it was easy to find and fairly cheap at Mountain Equipment Co-op.

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Seen outside Canadian Tire when I was there yesterday. I wonder if it’s functional. Nicely done with the sight and muzzle brake.

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Last summer’s spike in dangerously clueless newbie cyclists riding the wrong way in the bike lane on Queen’s Quay has been followed by rows and piles of bicycles abandoned in snowdrifts this winter (I guess people got where they were going before the first snowstorm hit, and took the streetcar home).   I’ve been following one particular bike down the street since December.

I wonder what’s the best formula for waxing  your chain if you’re going to store your bike inside a snowbank?

It’s a global epidemic: see the Bicycles in the Snow pool on Flickr.

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