The Lab Chronicles
This blog describes some of the bike restorations and builds we completed so far as well as our progress on the bikes we currently work on.
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Bottecchia Road Bike
Michael, an experienced recreational rider who owns a modern carbon road bike equipped with Shimano Ultegra components asked to join the steel frame classic bike owners club. This happened after a Saturday morning bike ride with a group of 4 other riders using steel frames. Rafi was more than happy to assist. A short discussion
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Mercier Road Bike
Before everything else, here is the story behind the story. The frame ended up in Rafi’s workshop after an old friend of ours, Shalom Dahan, brought it in. Shalom, who is a steel bikes fanatic and a bike builder in his own merits, was given this frameset a long time ago. The man who gave
My Touring Bike – Genesis Croix de Fer
My first bike touring experience was in 2011. It took Rafi many, many years to convince me to join him and his friends for a tour. I agreed mostly because the planned route was only about 500 km. to be covered in 8 days. It was supposed to be a one of a kind experience,
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Trek 4100 Mountain Bike
About 18 years ago we bought a pair of Trek 4100 hardtail bikes. The image at the top of this page is taken from the 2013 Trek bikes catalog. These were our first mountain bikes. Our intent was to get out in the open air and enjoy the trails. We had no idea how to
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