Dave Moulton's Blog

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• Uncertainty
• Was it worth it?
• Miami Critical Mass
• Chrome
• Everything I need to know about life I can learn from my bicycle
• Discrimination?
• The Newspaper Boy
• The Higginson Twins: Update
• Bent out of shape
• The Evolution of Frame Design, Part III: Clinging to Traditions
• The Evolution of Frame Design, Part II: How Economics Changed Design
• The Evolution of Frame Design. Part I: The Wheelbarrow Effect
• 1983 Custom
• Don’t pursue happiness, reach out and take it
• Stargroves
• Thinking makes it so
• Marketing Nothing
• Taking the Piss
• Future Plans
• The Sawmill Branch Trail
• The Wild Mustang
• The dangers of texting while driving
• Do cyclists need friends like this?
• Opinions
• From the Desk of Yours Truly
• Bunny Hop
• The Black Racer
• Nowhere Man
• The ups and downs of cycling casualties
• Guns are not a safety issue, bikes are
• Procrastination
• Bike industry unites to try and work with UCI
• Rik Van Steenbergen: Road Sprinter Supreme
• The Kermit the Frog Salesman
• Ferdi Kubler: At 90 years is the oldest living TDF winner
• US quashed report on dangers of phone use while driving
• Remove the bike from the roof rack before driving into the garage
• How a Single Ride Changed the Face of British Time Trialing
• Multiple Perspectives on Lance's Chances
• The Apple Tree
• Horse Play
• In the Dumpster of Life
• I love to ride my bike
• Steve Bilenky Fuso Tribute Frame
• Bigotry
• The March of the Machines
• Understanding the New UCI Regs: Part 2
• Understanding the New UCI Regs: Part 1
• Consumer protection gone crazy
• Book Review: Ignore Everybody
• Hinault vs. Armstrong
• Old bike designs die hard
• Old habits die hard
• The Language of the Internet
• Guy Stevens
• The Artist's Ego
• San Francisco Police Bicycle Training Video
• Living in the Moment
• 3 Feet of Space: It’s not much to ask
• Life is Absurd
• What Kills?
• My Mother
• Right where he should be
• Fuso Max: Transition from the old to the new
• The Higginson Twins: A Pedaling Phenomenon
• Marketing
• A 100 year legacy
• Lock your bike
• Mixed Signals
• Pictures from the past
• Twitter for Cyclists
• Success and Fame
• Tour de France could become fixed again
• Fiorenzo Magni: Third man, but not least
• Broken Clavicle
• Actually cyclists are treated like this
• Get over it
• Louison Bobet: First Three Time TDF Winner
• Happy St. Patrick's Day
• It's now 30 years and the National Enquirer still owes me a story
• Riding my bike: Then and now
• Well, I Guess I’m Back
• Fuso Components
• Bicycles are Vehicles
• Tribute Bike
• The Party’s Over
• The San Fran’ Fiasco
• Right-Hooked: Almost
• The Times they are a Changin’
• What’s wrong with this picture?
• My Brooks Saddle: Butchered but not Blocked
• The Quest to be the Fastest Cyclist in the World
• Cleaning up the Critical Mess
• Critical Mass: Stop now before someone dies
• You only know if you’ve been there, and done that
• A good reason not to ride on the sidewalk
• Off to the Races
• Welcome to Dave’s New Blogsite
• A restored 1977 English built frame
• Please don’t make the bicycle a political issue
• Tagged once more
• Is there a connection between technology and rudeness?
• Helmet Poll Result
• Cardboard Cycle, and a Bobby’s Bike Ban
• Friday Fun: Limericks
• Dear Penny
• Bike lanes may disappear on Coleman Blvd.
• Why do cyclists shave their legs? The only explanation you will ever need
• Helmets: Now you can vote
• Dispelling the myth
• Looking one way, driving another
• New South Carolina Laws to Protect Cyclists
• The West Ashley Greenway
• A Million Bucks? What a Crock*
• Graffiti
• James Starley: Father of the Bicycle Industry
• What brings them here?
• Passion
• A short story: AJ, the cyclist, and a large brown dog
• What if gas were $10 a gallon?
• Einstein letter sold at auction
• More thoughts on thinking
• Fear and Negativity: Don’t even think about it
• Furious driver takes out 50-strong cycle pack
• A little bit of history: Update
• The Paris Galibier Frame
• The Wave
• Cyclists live longer
• What to wear
• What’s your sign?
• 1953 Giro d’Italia: Coppi and Koblet in an epic battle
• Wasting Space
• Understanding other cultures
• Cyclists Gone Wild
• Classic Dutch Bicycle Pictures
• A short cycling safety video
• Why are large frames more prone to shimmy?
• An old friend comes home
• A new cycling hazard
• What does share the road really mean?
• Human Rights
• Prejudice and intolerance
• Like finding an old Corvette in a barn
• 1970s Time-Trial Bike
• Awareness Test
• Fixing fixed wheel terminology
• The London Commuter
• Taping Handlebars
• A little bit of history sold on eBay
• Back in the (Brooks) saddle again
• The strange things people do
• The Happiest Place on Earth
• Framebuilding FAQs
• Friends
• Memories
• Some late thoughts on the late Sheldon Brown
• NelsonVails
• Aldo Ross’s Pic of the Day
• Monday morning talk around the Coppi machine
• Fausto Coppi: Il Campionissimo
• Gino Bartali: A cyclist who saved a nation
• Junk
• Tribute to Red Evans
• Sensations, simple pleasures and passions
• A useful little grease gun
• Watchdogging follow up
• Watchdogging Blogging
• Friday Fun
• Matthew Parris Apologizes
• My friend Red Evans, and the Times article
• Looking Forward
• Looking Back
• My accident, part II: Dealing with the aftermath
• My accident, part I: Lessons learned
• Correctness
• Raymond Poulidor: A working class hero
• Velo News
• It must be all this talk about cycling is the new golf
• In search of the perfect fork blade
• The Fuso Lux
• The Pleasant Revolution Rock & Roll Bicycle Tour
• Evel Knievel
• Down in the Bicycle Forest, something stirred
• Mass Advertising
• Twiddling
• My Heathen Intuition
• The British Club Run
• Straightening bent seatstays
• Do separate bike paths improve safety?
• Two years of blogging: Realizing my baby is ugly
• Where are the Masculinists?
• Poetry in motion
• Discussing Helmet Use: Like peeking at a snake in a pool cue case
• Quiz
• A Halloween Story
• History of British Cycle Racing: Part III. The Ban from my Perspective
• History of British Cycle Racing: Part II, The British League of Racing Cyclists
• History of British Cycle Racing: Part I, The Ban
• Cyclists: The Redheaded Stepchild
• I have nothing today
• Cyclists and POBs
• Same crap, different country
• Is it time to re-think the derailleur?
• Lugs
• Lighten Up
• Fixed gear enthusiasts are discovering they have a hole in their rear
• Becoming Bicycle Friendly
• Bobbies on Bicycles
• Running vs. Cycling: Burning Calories
• Russ Denny
• Science Friction
• Saddle Height
• Truth in Fiction
• Techno-geeks: Please leave my bike alone
• Womankind: You can save Mankind
• John Howard frame: Dave M or Dave T?
• A tale of two early Fuso bikes
• Bill Walton's Bike
• Kubler and Koblet
• This looks fishy
• John Boyd Dunlop
• Position is all about comfort and efficiency
• The Garage Sale Fuso
• The makeup of an artist
• 53 x 11
• Once a Cyclist....
• Still bargains to be found out there
• Tubulars: Part III, Gluing the tire to the rim
• Tubulars: Part II, Repair
• Tubulars: Part I
• Vintage brake cable routing
• On life’s journey
• Tagged Again
• Why didn't I think of this?
• My low-tech bicycle computer
• What happened yesterday?
• Jean Robic: The little giant
• Batman and Robin never had this problem
• Road Cyclist’s Ten Commandments
• A String Alignment Test
• Suicide Shifters
• The New Jersey quick release ban: My two cents
• Stand-over height has little to do with the correct size frame
• Watch out for the Right Hook
• Framebuilders at The Cirque
• Headset Removal and Replacement
• Building my blue bike while Barry blew
• Twenty-two years old and never been kissed
• Dope: A Historical Perspective
• Pedal Float
• Running vs. Cycling
• Update on 1940s American Framebuilder Mike Moulton
• When it comes to bike saddles, how level is level?
• I went to the edge again
• Give up Lycra and my Helmet; not Bloody Likely
• Stayers
• Trail, fork rake, and a little bit of history
• German eZine Interview
• New Archive Page on my Website
• Mike Melton
• I Rode to the Edge of America and Back
• Would you buy it, strip it, dump the frame?
• The Weight Weenie
• 1981 Custom
• Head Angles and Steering
• 1930s Moulton Special
• The Recherche
• The National Enquirer to Sponsor a Pro Cycling Team
• Recovery Report
• See you at the Cirque?
• Cord Whipping Handlebars
• Aligning Handlebars
• 100 Blogs
• Got my Replacement Frame
• The Haunted Fish Tank
• Lessons in defensive riding, learned the hard way
• A stranger is a friend we haven’t met
• Attention Grabber
• Against the Wind
• Abandon or Repair?
• Bike Blog Block
• Bottom Bracket Height
• 75 Bucks for Scrap Metal on Ebay
• Old tech, new tech
• Custom Touring Bike
• Interview
• The Good News and the Bad News
• Every Picture Tells a Story
• Unicycle
• Handlebar Drop
• Major Taylor
• We owe a lot to the bicycle
• Gear Table
• Cycle-Clips
• I Mistook a Silk Purse for a Pig’s Ear
• Fuso Mixte: One of a Kind
• Rare Track Frames
• The Highway Code
• Lowcountry Bloggers
• Willard Wigan
• Its not April Fools Day already, is it?
• What's in a Logo?
• Aero Bikes: History
• The US Team Aero Bike Fiasco
• Not down to the cardboard tube yet
• Will the real Dave Moulton please stand up
• A New Christmas Song
• Why is my Front Brake Lever on the Right?
• Invisible Man
• Now the Toe-overlap is a Problem
• I’ve Been Tagged
• Thank Heaven these are Isolated Cases
• David Tesch
• Helmet Use: And the beat goes on.
• And this was with a Helmet!
• Just when you think you are Infallible
• Can't we all get along?
• What scares me more than reckless drivers?
• My Father
• Kiawah Island Bike Ban: Part 2
• You can't get to Kiawah Island on a bicycle
• Paris Sport Track Frame
• My Reasons to be Thankful
• Positive Thinking
• KOF: Kind of Funny
• Don Tate: Cyclist
• Where have all the Fusos gone?
• Happy Birthday Dear Bike Blog
• Centering side-pull brakes
• Toe Overlap: No Problem
• Hey!
• Chasing Charlie
• Chuck's custom bike
• The feel of steel makes it real
• Brazing vs. Welding
• I was never in a movie, but at one time, my arm was in a cast.
• Time Machine: Timeless Machine
• Not one of mine
• Which of these three books will be worth serious money in the future?
• Please Share the Road: I Only Need a Tiny Bit
• What we say, as opposed to what we want to say
• The Cooper River Bridge: Continued
• I Rode the Biggest Hill in Charleston
• Back on the Bike: The First Month
• Shimmy Re-Visited
• Clueless
• Utter Rubbish
• Tantrums
• What does the length of your forearm and the price of fish have to do with stem length?
• On the road again
• Get out and ride it: It's what they're built for
• The Number 10 Fuso Just Surfaced
• Squirrelly
• Why did I quit riding, and why am I about to start up again?
• I just saw this post on I-Bob.
• There are some God awful paint schemes on Fuso frames out there: Not my fault.
• The Road Bike; an Elitist Machine.
• The John Howard Frame Saga
• A Paris Sport frame has surfaced
• History Lesson
• Rear Dropouts
• A Different Thought on Frame Sizing
• My best 12 hour ride.
• The Mechanics of Steering.
• Perfectionism
• 27 years ago the National Enquirer promised to do a story on me. I’m still waiting.
• A very nice 59cm. Fuso Lux just sold on eBay.
• Not a highly sought after collectable. (Yet.)
• High Speed Shimmy.