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Happy New Year! We’re back and ready for another year of race news, results and rumors. Here are the latest headlines from the past few days.

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If you don’t, you really should.
I feel fortunate that I am NOT speaking from the experience of stripping out a bolt or crushing a delicate carbon fiber part.
I picked up a torque wrench last year when I was building up my last bike. It’s nothing fancy, and I wouldn’t put a whole lot of faith in its measurements being exact, but it’s close enough.
I’m still amazed at how little torque is needed for a lot of common bike parts. I was seriously over-wrenching a lot of parts such as seat …

Here’s the latest headlines:

Okay, I like Chris Horner and think he’s a good racer, but does he really need to sit and home healing a broken collarbone and bitch about not being selected for the Olympics? He thinks that Jason McCartney is not a smart choice. Maybe if he had been selected he would have skipped Elk Grove and not had his crash, but what if he hadn’t? Same result – still sitting at home on the couch.
Emanuele Sella confessed to using EPO in his hearing before the Italian Olympic …

In a recent post, I mentioned that I was starting to build a bike for my wife.
Well…. that frame didn’t work out too well. First of all, it was not the size that the seller said it was. It was scratched up far more than he said. And… the right rear dropout slot was screwed up.
I was able to get a wheel into the dropouts with some work, but I decided that, overall, it really wouldn’t work. I e-mailed the seller, and he, very generously, refunded my money and told …

You may have been following the entries for my upgrade project. I’ll be continuing with that in March when I take a Park Tool mechanics class at the LBS.
I was discussing the class with my wife and mentioned that I was thinking about a carbon fiber frame when she reminded me that I was going to build her a new bike. Well… you don’t need to ask me (more than) twice!
I started searching for an appropriate frame and came across this on eBay. I don’t know much about the brand, …