Simply

I love my bike(s)

Whitening my ride

I've wanted to write about the small upgrades of my trail bike last year but I was too lazy. Last year I changed the seat of my mountain bike with a white second hand Selle Italia seat. The original seat got to my city bike so that bike got a little bit sportier and more comfortable (it had a big bulky city seat).

Also last year I changed my bottle cage because the aluminium one was making my bottle dirty so I got a white plastic bottle cage and change the yellow bottle with a white bottle :)

Last year I started to have bigger problems with my pedals, one of them was broken for a few years, but after falling too many time because I could get my shoes unclipped I decided that I should get new pedals. Given the options of silver, black and white I chose some nice white pedals. 

Last week I changed the pedals (I want to change the cleats also, but I need a lot of tome for that) so this Sunday I went for a ride with the new white pedals. 

The trail was nice and dry, the ground was a bit to hard but it was a nice Spring ride.

And a picture white my whitened bike:

And a close up with the new pedals from Rosebikes:

I wonder what is the next bit that is going to be whitened... Too bad they don't make white Nobby Nics with reinforced side walls...

Happy Easter!

I wish you a Very Happy Easter!

Kellemes Husveti Unnepeket Kivanok!

Paste fericit tuturor!

Happy Easter!

Buona Pasqua!

Felices Pascuas!

Joyeuses Paques!

Frohe Ostern!

Flower bike

I saw this bike in front of a flower shop:

I wanted to take another picture with nobody in the picture but I managed to get my finger in the pic. I hope I can make another picture soon. I was looking for the bike today too but it was in the shop, they didn't put it out :(

Update: I saw the bike again and this time I took some better pictures:

Dog guarding owner's bike

I would like to have a dog guarding my bike :)

Bikes in Berlin

There are a lot of bikes everywhere in Berlin

You can see a lot of bikes used for commercial purpose

Cool bikes to rent

in action

You can read about the solar powered bike rentals here.

Solar powered bike rentals in Berlin

I saw in Berlin bike rentals powered by the sun. I searched on the web and I found their website. These are really cool things I hope someday they will be available in all the cities. Here are a few pics:

Bike rental near St Mary's Church

Bike rental near the Berlin wall

Powered by the sun

Berlin here I come... again...

Next Tuesday I'm flying to Berlin for a few weeks. I found some pics on my hard drive which where left unpublished and they are perfect for this post :)

beer bike

tho bikes

rickshaw

horse and carriage

horse and carriage and a rickshaw

interesting bike

multi-rider bike

rent a bike

bikes made in Romania

cool carrier bike

Fixing v-brakes

Last night I fixed the brakes on my city bike. One of the arms of the v-brakes wasn't moving. This happened both on the front brake and on the rear brake too. I asked a guy from the bike shop how to fix the problem and he said that probably it got rusted or some dirt caused the brakes to brake.

I went home and unscrewed the screw but the brake arm didn't come loose. I gave up after a few tries and abandoned the project. After I turned on my laptop I searched on the web for a tutorial to fix v-brakes and I found this video:

Although my brakes are a bit different I got the tools and unscrewed the screw again. This time I got a screwdriver and tried to force the brake arm. I didn't succeed at first but then I started to twist the arm and it started to get loose. I found out that a lot of rust was causing the brake to malfunction.

the rust

the tools

I cleaned the brake with a fine sand paper and then like the guy does it in the video I greased it up an resembled it. It was working so well that the other side, which was working before, got stiff. So I had to clean the other side too.  

After fixing the front brakes I did the same thing to the rear brakes to. The rear brakes came off a lot easier.

The whole operation took me about 40 minutes but next time I will be a lot faster because I know what to do :D

The rear brake got stiff a bit but maybe it will recover in a few days, if it doesn't I will lube the cable. I didn't line up the brake pads with the rims eater because I'm expecting the springs to get loose a bit after they were stiff for a while.

Happy 2nd Birthday Nabb!

It's been two years since I wrote the first post here. At first I didn't know what I want from this blog, I only knew that I wanted a blog. I still don't know where the blog is going but I'll know when it gets there :)

Last year I wanted a redesign, I'm still thinking of it but I haven't decided on the new look yet. Since last year I bough a domain and I changed some small scripts to.

I've learned a lot writing here and I want to learn even more in the next years. Happy Birthday Nabb!

Images from brickell-life and thechainlink.

My bikes

I've made a few pictures of my bikes. I like my bikes very much, my road bike and my mountain bike sleep near my bed:

I am lucky that there is a big elevator in my flat so I can put two bikes in it:

Very cool advertisement

Via tvdece

The power of the bike bell

Via freerider.

Removing the corn seeds from the cob with the bike

A fun way to remove the corn seeds from the cob riding your bike, when I was younger we used to turn this machine by hand:

Via ciclism.ro.

What is Mountainbiking about?

Happy Easter

Pics from coloringpages7 and bobsbicycles.

The benefits of the bike

benefits of a bicycle

space required to transport 60 people (via ciclism.ro)

A bike on the Danube

You can see this gigantic bicycle on Danube in Budapest. The twist of the river turns the wheels which turn the pedals and the riders legs:

Via biciclistul.ro.

Rider or reader?

Are you a rider or a reader? Now you can vote.

The old poll is closed, here is the result:

KIA - Share The Road

Via freerider.ro.