• Giving your Dynamo hub the new color. Shutter Precision SV – 9

    You have probably noticed that in regards to bike component color choice 8 time out of 10 this will be Black or Silver. Here is my little example how it is relatively easy to give almost any color to your favorite bicycle component. I mind you –  this is possible only to the components that are not exposed to the direct physical wear and tear. Like hubs. Or..  Dynamo Hubs in this particular case. I was looking for a WHITE Dynamo hub. Certain models have limited variety of color choices. Non of them comes in white though. Here is how I have turned silver Shutter Precision SV-9 silver dynamo into…

  • Another Brooks experience. “Organic” B67 Select overview.

    Not long time ago, just some 1000 miles ago, I happen to get one saddle. It was manufactured in England from that famous saddle producer – Brooks. Funny thing about that particular saddle is that it happens to be B76 SELECT model. Select stands here for “organic” leather they use, which is taken off from organically raised cattle somewhere in Sweden. I still think that no matter good wording and sound reasoning, organic leather and dead animal doesn’t go together. Or maybe I just perceive word “organic” in too naïve way. So at the beginning I was extremely skeptical about this saddle line and somehow even got disappointed with the…