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Traveling With a Bike Sucks IX: Disc Brake Maintainance While Traveling

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Disc brakes have become the norm for drop bar bikes, relegating rim brakes to the Collector’s Item category. I’m not saying they’re bad, I’m saying…

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Exploring the Costa Blanca from Valencia to Cartagena and Back

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The winter had been brief and dry. We hadn’t seen such a bad snowpack since the fabled winter of ‘76-77, the one that inspired every…

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