It’s back! The eBay Find of the Week returns, just in time for ‘cross season.
This week I think we’ll focus on entry level and next week we’ll see if we can get a little more exotic.
First entry is the always reliable and plentiful Motobecane brand. Not exactly pretty, not really light, but it will get [...]

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Aerocat is a relatively new bicycle manufacturer based fairly close to me in Portland, Indiana. They launched the company last year at Interbike with a focus on road bikes and have added time trial and mountain bikes this year.
We first looked at the Aerocat R350. The R350 is a performance oriented aluminum frame with a [...]

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Upgrades to your bike are never truly over, but I am done for now.
I’m happy to say that the bike looks and rides sweet. I am very happy with this build and look forward to logging many miles on it.
Here are the pics:

Danny is ready to go for a ride with Dad. If we can [...]

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Today is the day that it all starts to come together.
Tonight I start my Park Tool Class at Campus Cyclery and I will start putting the new drivetrain parts onto my bike. As I had mentioned a while ago, I do have a new carbon fiber frame coming, but with the riding season looming on [...]

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If you’ve been following this thread so far, you know that all I had left to acquire was some drivetrain parts. I picked those up today, once again at a good discount from retail.
I had been thinking about getting some carbon bars. Several weeks ago, I was shopping around on eBay and found a good [...]

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