Every bike curmudgeon on the internet will grumble "steel is real" if you trot out an old frame. Steel frames last forever, you're told, and are easily repaired if anything breaks. Well, my old steel ...
A few months back, I got lucky. My 1980s mountain bike, a 1987 Schwinn Cimarron I got for $150, snapped in half. The luck was twofold: First, I was just putting along a little trail and not flying ...
Despite growing up without a bike of his own, Paul Ketelaar is now at the forefront of a movement seeking to remind people of the bikes of yesteryear. For a market Mr Ketelaar said was saturated by ...
For around a century, steel was the preferred material for bike frames. That changed towards the end of the 20th century, when first aluminium and then carbon fibre supplanted steel at the top of the ...