Chuck Glider's Bicycle Workshop

As you work on a Twenty, you start to get a feel of the engineering. I find it useful to categorise: some parts are really well thought out ...

The 46T 165mm crankset off the BSA 20 is utilitarian, but good looking, after the rust is removed and the chrome polished. I especially like...

I may have finally found the best way to seal quality CX tyres like Challenge open tubular (clinchers). In a previous post , I compared Co...

Giant's hugely popular Defy range of road bikes have mudguard eyelets front and rear. However, clearance under the brake calipers is ti...

The finished bike. Fine adjustments (e.g. saddle and tt bar angles) are still to be finalised. I'll do those as I test ride. Those whe...

These Challenge Grifo are beautiful clinchers. Note that Challenge call them Open Tubulars meaning they're made like their tubulars bef...

Time to have some fun on the cyclocross bike. There's nothing like it! The tyres are Challenge Grifo  700x33 clinchers (what they call ...

Which way round should tyres be mounted for off road use and cyclocross racing?  I'm fully aware that some manufacturers have rotation a...

Michael Barry, the Team Sky professional rider, recently wrote about his favourite cycling innovation, the humble quick release lever (artic...

Is it a disaster if you have toe overlap? Obviously, wearing winkle-pickers on a small bike with mudguards does not help! But usually, a...

I thought it would be fun to write short opinions on technical subjects. Here is the first one. Latex tubes roll better than butyl ones. T...

A year on, the folding bike wheels that Hewitt built up for me are still going strong. They are in daily use, straight as they were the day...