Removing a chain from a bicycle seems like one of those mystical things that doesn’t make any sense until someone shows you how. I remember when I got my first bicycle toolkit and saw the chain breaker for the first time I thought to myself, ‘what on earth is that thing for?’ Like most maintenance [...]

There’s something embarrassing about riding up behind someone on a bike that has a chain on it that sounds like someone grinding away at a metal pole with worn out sandpaper. I haven’t worked out a polite way of asking someone if they’re deaf or not so I usually just roll my eyes and keep [...]