My wife was cruising through Youtube and found these videos. The first shows a way to clean chrome with water and aluminum foil. I have never seen this technique before. Rust is not a major problem where I live but this could come in handy. The music is over the top for cleaning some rust.

Aluminum Foil Cleans Rust!

early progress on a Rollfast Bike from the ’60’s

The next two videos are vintage bikes that are being restored. These bikes needed a lot of help.

Pre-War Ladies Humber bike-restore

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BexqLOjJmKw

Take a look at the old ladies Humber pre- war bike I’m going to try to restore. (Not me but rockypro1)

Old Mans 3 speed Raleigh, restore

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cExr5nnBK6o

Here’s an old mans 3 speed raleigh all steel bike i’m restoring, The year of this bike is (1950s), Its not a full restore as i’m not taken everything off more of a fresh’in up, Just caught in the nick of time too as the rust is…

Houston Bicycle Club Montgomery Ride
Distances:  26(A), 46(B), 58(C) mile
Saturday January 28th, 2012
Ride through the beauty of the pines in Sam Houston National Forest to Dobbin, Dacus, Richards, and Anderson. Expect hills and country roads. Montgomery High School, one mile west of the town of Montgomery on TX Hwy 105 (on the left coming from Montgomery). Montgomery is 15 miles west of Conroe on Hy 105 or from the south, 23 miles north of Tomball on TX Hwy 249 and FM 149.

Subaru/IMBA Trail Care Crew Schedule
Feb. 2-5    Seguin, TX            Seguin Outdoor Learning Ctr
Feb. 9-12     Austin     TX            Austin Ridge Riders
Feb. 16-19    Dallas, TX            North Texas Mountain Bike Patrol
The Trail Care Crew will teach “sustainable” trail building principles, which means building lasting trails that require minimal maintenance. Class participants will learn to apply those techniques in the afternoon field session. Limit is 50 participants – It is free.

GHORBA Group Ride at Cameron Park!
www.austinridgeriders.com
GHORBA (Greater Houston Off-Road Biking Association) will be holding a group ride at Cameron Park this Saturday January 21st
at 10:00am. The ride is open to all riders and not just GHORBA members so bring your friends and family. The Waco Bicycle Club is providing group leaders to show us around the trails and GHORBA will have water, gatorade, and light snacks for everyone. Meet us near the pavillion on Lover’s Leap Ln!

Super Bowl Sunday, February 5th
www.greaterdallasbicyclists.com
Join GDB as we host our 27th Annual Super Bowl Sunday ride to the West End. This year our host location will again be Dick’s Last Resort. Depending on the weather and rider turnout, Dick’s could be a tad crowded. This year, there is a listing of area restaurants for alternatives to Dick’s. These restaurants have been called and are ready to welcome overflow riders.

Thirteen different ride locations will be taking part in this annual tradition. This is a lively location so bring the smiles, cheers and laughter as you see your friends, meet new ones from the metroplex and have lunch together. If the crowd is too much and there is no seating at Dick’s, you’ve got alternatives! If you wish to make a reservation for your group, these locations will accommodate…

Hill Country Bicycle Touring Club Membership Meeting
January 19, 2012
The January membership Meeting will be held at the Mexican Restaurant. on Ingram Road near the Park-n-Ride (just outside Loop 410).  Please come at 6 PM to eat and 6:30 (or so) for the meeting

No Country for Old Goats
Epic riding returns to Big Bend.
By: by Don Stefanovich        www.bikemag.com

Lajitas, Texas, has announced its second annual Chihuahuan Desert Dirt Fest will be held February 16 through 18. The three-day, non-race festival ride is the second in a series of annual events aimed at reviving a remote mountain-bike Mecca—a hotbed of marathon racing during the late ‘80s and through the ‘90s—that as little as three years ago, was off limits to those on two wheels.

Eighty miles from the nearest supermarket, Lajitas isn’t your average mountain-bike town. It’s far from average for any town, really. In fact, it’s not really a town at all. The unincorporated community in Southwest Texas—tucked between Big Bend National Park and Big Bend State Park along the Rio Grande, near the Mexican border and about…

Simple Cold Weather Locking Tip
by Steve A        DFW Point-to-Point
Last winter, I related my problem of a U lock freezing so that I couldn’t open it. This is a lock that I leave at the rack at work. I really do NOT like to lug heavy locks around, but I DO like to lock my bike securely. WD40 helped. The lock was left on the rack as shown above.

HOWEVER, I found an even better solution for keeping U locks operating in freezing cold weather. THAT solution is seen below. What could be simpler than simply hanging the lock so moisture drains OUT of the mechanism…

I have been blessed with no allergies but I know people who fight this all the time. I was not aware of the cedar problem.

Make it Happen Monday: One Big Breath
by Darryl        lovingthebike.com
Right now in Austin we’re deep in the heart of cedar allergy season, and once again it’s wreaking havoc on my cycling lungs.  They call it “cedar fever” and a lot of people over here get knocked down pretty hard with the punch it packs each year.

One of the things it does to me is compresses my lungs so that it’s hard for me to catch my breath…not a good thing when you’re out there cranking the pedals. Even when it’s not allergy season, I often find it necessary to take in a big deep breath several times a day.  This is a pretty simple thing to do most of the year, but when…

Seen at el Tour de Taco – Bike Friendly Deep Ellum
by Christopher Curnutt            Biking in Dallas

Bike Friendly Deep Ellum put on a great show yesterday.  Ok, it wasn’t a show really, it was a group bike ride. The el Tour de Taco adventure began at St Pete’s Dancing Marlin whose staff was very gracious.  The excitement sizzled as what must have been between 50-75 cyclists slowly began congregating on the sidewalk and garden patio of St Pete’s.  Alex Perez was chosen the official bike wrench as a small line of bikes in need of some sort of repair or adjustment began to take form as…

Delectable Tour de Taco Riders
by UrbanPedal        Dallas Cycle Chic

…Norma’s everyday road bike was incapacitated so she rode her racing bike with toe clip shoes – and a hot little pink skirt! She’s ridden the Hotter Than Hell ride the past 3 years, and bought 3 cool old road bikes on craigslist in the last month! …

Accident raises urgency for Bike Lanes in Dallas (video)
by WFAA
by JONATHAN BETZ DALLAS — An accident that badly injured a North Texas cyclist is drawing anger from the cycling community — especially since it happened on a key bridge that’s been slated for upgrades. But those improvements been thrown into…

5 Tips for Fueling a Century
by Shawn            Texas Mountain Bike Trails
Today we have the pleasure of featuring a guest post from Peter, author of ReadyForPlanB.com where he promotes cycling and vegan lifestyle. Peter went from being border line obese to being a vegan super-cyclist. He put in more miles during 2011 than I have in possibly my entire cycling career. Today he shares tips on fueling…