Yesterday Beth and I were out visiting bike shops and discussing our plans to open the Rakish Ride bike shop in Amsterdam when we stopped at the Town Hall Tap in Minneapolis for some lunch. As we walked up I noticed there were a number of very nice old British bikes parked out front. Low …
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Trek 510 Series Randonneur
My first “labor of love” 1983 Trek 513. The bike represents nearly two years of continuous development and evolution on my first effort to build a “perfect for me” bike. These early 80’s Trek frames are well known as very high-quality bikes that were silver brazed by hand in Wisconsin. While it is hard enough …
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1979 Trek 510 Custom – Part 2
Over the winter the Trek project progressed slowly but steadily to what you see pictured here. I have added new hand built wheels, handlebars, fenders and a rear rack to the bike making it nearly complete. As I start new projects I find it useful to make changes one or two at a time and live with …
Review #1 – 1979 Trek 510 Custom – Part 1
I have always been a fan of the USA made steel Trek bikes built in Wisconsin up until the mid to late 1990’s. When I was working at Penn Cycle in the late 80’s I came to appreciate the much better build quality of Trek bikes, relative to comparably priced models from other brands, and loved …
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Rakish Reviews
As a “chronicle of compelling conveyances” the Rakish Ride will from time to time offer reviews of bikes and related products of interest, in the hopes that a whole bunch of people will like, or at least respect, an honest and unbiased assessment of the various bike related products I have purchased and use. As …
Hague-Hellevoetsluis-Middleburg
After 4 days of luxury and copious amounts of food and drink we set off on three straight days of riding about 60-80km each day. Our first destination was a small rural B&B just outside the city of Hellevoetsluis, which was easy to find thanks to the GPS tips I had gotten the day before …
Europe Trip – Arrival in Amsterdam – Bikes and Beer
Last week Beth and I returned from our first bike touring trip together. We packed up our bikes, flew to Amsterdam and rode through the Netherlands to Bruges Belgium and then on the Ghent and Antwerp before hopping a train to spend the last few days of our trip in Paris. By all accounts (most importantly …
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Mid winter blues and big bike trip plans
It has been an epically cold and snowy winter here in MN and despite getting my All City Macho Man shod with studded tires I have not logged nearly enough miles to prepare for our upcoming tour of Holland, Belgium and France. As it turns out this would have been the perfect winter to get …
Weekend Rides
I spent a fair bit of time biking as well as working on the bikes this weekend so I have a few things to report, including a new addition to the stable, but more on that later… First off I saw this very Rakish Ride parked in downtown Minneapolis on Friday afternoon. It appears to …
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