Spoke Patterns and Flange Heights

July 27th, 2009

I came across this essay today while searching for something else.

Held Up By Downward Pull

Weight Conscious?

July 27th, 2009

Here’s a couple of sites that will help you if you’re looking to compare weights on bike parts

  • Weight Weenies – Allow visitors to submit data.
  • Wheelbuilder.com – I wish this data could be incorporated into my spoke length calculator but this is a good way to spec out wheels by weight. Mainly high-end stuff.

Building your own headlights

April 16th, 2009

Alex Whetmore is a smart guy and bicycle geek. He’s written up a nice article on his experiences building his own generator powered lights. It’s worth filing away if only for his standlight schematic.

Single-speed gearing and skid patch calculator

March 27th, 2008

I’ve been thinking about writing one of these for this site but [this one's pretty nice](http://software.bareknucklebrigade.com/rabbit.applet.html).

Spoke Calculator now available

March 22nd, 2008

I finally got back around to working on the [spoke calculator](http://wheelbuilder.freebiketools.org/) some more and now it’s ready for release. It’s got most of the data from the latest version of [Spocalc](http://sheldonbrown.com/rinard/spocalc.htm). I had to clean up the Spocalc databases because there was some questionable/confusing information in them. This web application uses the same math as Spocalc and I’ve used them both to build wheels so I feel comfortable sharing it with other people.

Please send any feedback to james @ this domain.

Thread Direction

January 8th, 2008

I just posted a [bottom bracket cheat sheet](http://freebiketools.org/files/BottomBracketGuide.pdf) in the Resources section. It comes courtesy of [Michael Webber](http://crankedmag.com). Hopefully I’ll have some more of these cheatsheets in the coming months.

Some online tools

November 28th, 2007

[Alex Wetmore's new stem visualizer](http://blogs.phred.org/blogs/alex_wetmore/archive/2007/11/28/stem-chart-tool.aspx) he posted this morning prompted me to create a new section for [online tools](http://freebiketools.org/tools/).

Welcome

November 21st, 2007

Welcome to what I hope will become a useful repository for bicycle mechanics and riders. My initial plans are to gather up the best online technical articles that I can find and post them to the resources section. Soon my new spoke length calculator will appear and I hope it’s going to supersede to the others that are out there and become a valuable resource for the community.

Please send any feedback you have to james@ this domain and I’ll respond as quickly as I can.

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