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I've rarely liked any TV show or movie centered around cars, but for shows I've attended, the 2000 Concorso Italiano, Rennsport Reunion at Limerock, 2000 Monterey Historics, the old Ipswich Concours, and the Lars Anderson Museum lawn events (especially the microcars and they used to have a...

I had a 1/10 Tamiya Fox with a Reedy Pink Dot or something like that and an assortment of bodies. Would do about 40 mph, but eat batteries (lousy NiCads!). I used to race it at a track at a hobby shop. That thing didn't handle at all, but it held its own in a straight line well enough that I...

You'll want to coat it in something after since the zinc should dull pretty quickly.

No, the internal gear setup works similar to a constant mesh manual gearbox, but instead of synchros to apply power to the preferred ratio gear, it uses pawls set inside the second (idler) shaft actuated by a cam shaft that is rotated by the shifter instead of dogs or synchros. It would only...

I'm about to jinx myself, but I haven't blown out a tire in about 20 years (the Specialized-Allez-turned-Iver-Johnson-Major-Taylor), which is when I stopped running the road bike near top pressure rating (and since moved to 28s instead of 23s, which comically requires installing them deflated to...

There's another company https://pinion.eu/en/gearboxes/ that makes some that work a lot like a manual transmission in a car (so it's got my approval), but with a rather clever cam-actuated pawl engagement for the gears. They come in different ranges for varying applications with the higher end...

It's like duck in the way that turkey is like chicken. I don't like duck, either, but if you do, you might like goose. I would say goose is the more bland of the two, though bland isn't really the right word.

I had regular goose and thought it was gross. Can't imagine the wild stuff would be better. The snapping turtles might have agreed as the goose couple had a lot of goslings and none seemed to get taken.

We had stinking Canada geese. We're surrounded by ponds, so we put out some floating blinking amber lights like construction barrels that are sold to get rid of them by keeping them up all night where they might be trying to sleep on the shore. Unlike the coyotes that I recorded attacking them...

Wow, I don't think I've seen that many together at once!

I wonder if that's what's happening near me. I found a few other steals on road bikes and I think it's because beginners and casuals don't want them and the road bikers are probably the biggest marks for marketing departments and are easily convinced that anything older than the latest...

When I was a kid, I constructed several bikes out of discarded parts found on trash day walking home from school. One of them lasted years of abuse (IIRC, it was eventually stolen and very likely by this weaselly little trashy kid who stole bikes all the time. He eventually ended up being...

Very locally, it seems people are getting rid of cheap bikes cheap. Metro area, it looks like decent bikes have definitely gone up, but not quite that outrageously and there doesn't seem to be many flipped box store junkers. A guy near me actually has a mint Litespeed with all good components...

It's really just custom bikes. You can "waste" money building up a cheaper frame, but if you've got a lot of bikes, limited budget, and/or want to use what's around, sometimes that's what you need to use and it doesn't mean you can't build something cool, anyway. It might not be as nice a rider...

I think there's still room for premium products, but start up costs are still high and becoming a name of high regard able to command the high margin prices necessary takes more time and money and determination than most have. As someone distantly considering the option of building my own boats...

I was surprised by how nice my Iver rides, too. Must be all the gravel roads and such that they had back then.

They're not too hard to make. I don't know that specific shifter, but the biggest obstacle you might have is keeping the assembly together without the handlebar grip that often does that job. I think some shifters might be fine on their own, but the ones I used on Retro Rocket (some lower end...

I had that idea as a kid as I changed out/patched a lot of tubes and that got annoying (not just mine, though I blew out my share, I was kind of the neighborhood mechanic). Tried tying the dead ends of one I cut in half to try it, but it didn't hold air under weight and I lacked the...

I'm a big fan of this frame style. I've built a couple for other people and ridden them to test them out and I'm always surprised by how well they ride in spite them being invariably way too small for me. I like the aesthetic, too. Not as much of a fan of the variants where there's a single top...

I'm getting a set for my electric bike build once I finish the electric kayak.