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The feel of steel makes it real by Dave M. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Biking When I ran my framebuilding business in California during the 1980s; occasionally a member of the general public would stumble into my frameshop. They would invariably ask two ... Read on »

Mixte by Dave M. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Biking Pictured above is a Peugeot bicycle with a Mixte frame. Instead of a top tube it has two narrow tubes approximately ½ inch in diameter running from the top head lug, pa ... Read on »

Brazing vs. Welding by Dave M. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Biking I occasionally visit bike forums to see what kind of questions bike riders are asking and occasionally I will post a reply if I think I have an answer. I try to stay away from ... Read on »

Chasing Charlie by Dave M. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Biking I neared the top of the hill on an evening training ride on a road so familiar to me I knew exactly what lay ahead; I had ridden my bike on this country road in the rural West ... Read on »

Chuck's custom bike by Dave M. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Biking I’m sure Chuck Schmidt will not mind if I share pictures of his pristine custom ‘dave moulton’ bike. Built in 1983, Chuck is the original owner, and this is the original pain ... Read on »

Toe Overlap: No Problem by Dave M. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Biking There was a discussion recently on Classic Rendezvous Bike list; the tread titled “Toe overlap even on good bikes,” implied that toe overlap was a design flaw and one should n ... Read on »

Hey! by Dave M. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Biking Out for a ride the other day; enjoying the beautiful weather and the peace and tranquility of the countryside, when car full of young guys drove slowly by. Through the open p ... Read on »

Happy Birthday Dear Bike Blog by Dave M. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Biking Dave’s Bike Blog is one year old today, how time flies when you are having fun. I have posted 45 blogs; that’s a little under one a week for the year. I started out slow, ave ... Read on »

Centering side-pull brakes by Dave M. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Biking Do you have trouble in centering side-pull brakes? Here’s a simple little trick that I have always used. First, tighten the brake; don’t worry too much about centering the bra ... Read on »

Don Tate: Cyclist by Dave M. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Biking [Click on picture to view an enlarged version.] When a bike enthusiast emails me I add the name to my “Bike List.” I have 126 email addresses on the list now. Occasionally I s ... Read on »

Where have all the Fusos gone? by Dave M. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Biking As well as starting this blog a year ago, it was also in November 2005 that I started tracking my bikes and frames for sale on eBay. In the first ten months of the year there ... Read on »

Positive Thinking by Dave M. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Biking I was watching a story on TV recently about a young female soldier in Iraq who received serious head wounds from a roadside bomb. She miraculously survived, due largely to som ... Read on »

KOF: Kind of Funny by Dave M. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Biking I kept seeing the abbreviation KOF on Classic Rendezvous Bike List. Not knowing what it meant I was puzzled when I saw it linked to my name. So I had to email my friend Dale ... Read on »

Paris Sport Track Frame by Dave M. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Biking I love it when a surprise email drops into my inbox; shining like a little gem amongst all the junk messages plying penny stocks and cheap Canadian medications. Like the one t ... Read on »

My Reasons to be Thankful by Dave M. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Biking If you will indulge me on this Thanksgiving Day, I would like to give reasons I have to be thankful. For my good health: I was able to get one of my bikes this year and start ... Read on »

You can't get to Kiawah Island on a bicycle by Dave M. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Biking Much of the coast of South Carolina is made up of tiny islands. Like Kiawah Island just south of Charleston and like many of these islands there is only a single access road. ... Read on »

Kiawah Island Bike Ban: Part 2 by Dave M. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Biking Apparently I made a wrong assumption when I saw the above sign, (See my previous post and the comments.) although I am not clear what assumption I was supposed to make. A sign ... Read on »

My Father by Dave M. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Biking My father died in 1996 and it is not unusual that I would be thinking of him at this time as today was his birthday. I am who I am today because of my father. Because of him ... Read on »

Can't we all get along? by Dave M. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Biking In the words of Rodney King after the LA riots in the early 1990s: “Can’t we all get along.” When I took the post by a local Charleston blogger; (See my blog yesterday.) and ... Read on »

What scares me more than reckless drivers? by Dave M. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Biking It is people with attitudes like this. A local man who goes only by the name of Lee wrote this piece in a blog. He was commenting on this story about a 19 year old girl who ki ... Read on »

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