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• Fatigue Life: Steel Bikes

  July 28, 2026

  Norman Mailer hated plastic. On aluminum's silent fatigue life, carbon's all-or-nothing brittleness, and why steel is the only material that ages the way he wanted things to age.

  cyclingcraftessay
• Truing the Wheel

  July 18, 2026

  You cannot fix one spoke.

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• Not a Torque Wrench in the Whole Country

  July 16, 2026

  On lubrication, karma, and the 53 grams between my face and a sewer grate.

  cyclingessay