It’s taken a lot longer than expected but, at last, Bikemagic editor Mike Davis has published the piece he’s has been promising to publish for some time. Davis has been a regular contributor to the ...

A car crusher is an interesting device. As we work, play and sleep, the crusher marches on, eating up everything in its path. Between junkyard visits, acres of cars are replaced with new wrecks, and ...

If you’ve ever experienced noisy or howling hydraulic disc brakes on your cyclocross bike, this week’s Mechanical Monday solution costs a few cents, takes just a few seconds, has saved some custom ...

I first heard of disc brakes when I was growing up. Hero Honda’s CBZ went mainstream and as is typical of the auto industry, certain features get shouted off from the top of roofs. Sure, disc brakes ...

In the wake of the UCI banning disc brakes from professional road racing following injury at Paris-Roubaix, bike brands and drivetrain companies have defended their products with varying levels of ...

The latest rec.bicycles.tech topic flared up after the posting of the BikeBiz.co.uk story ‘Missy Giove’s QR pops open.’ 199 postings later and there’s still no consensus (is there ever on Usenet?) but ...

One of our readers asked, “If I switch to disc brakes, what’s going to be different in terms of maintenance?” One of our trusty mechanical experts, Drew Hager, weighs in: I think for many ...

Though a decade ago it was far from the case, nowadays, the likelihood for a technician to work on a newer truck with air disc brakes (ADBs) is about the same as one with drum brakes. “Almost half of ...