My journey started as a then 13 year old boy punting around his local woods’s unsanctioned trails when i suffered the rapid unplanned disassembly of a shimano rd-m531 and in the hour or so walk home began pondering the intricacies of bikes, their design filosofies, their manufacturing procesess, how durability was balanced with cost, etc. so after asking mom if i could take apart my bike to “fix it” and after a begrudging yes from her, it had started with some simple tinkering, “the engineerening” i call it, a process wich thruought the years has dragged me into researching and exploring increasingly niche corners of “the bike” as a system ranging from the compulsive de-frictionening of brake sealing surfaces to reduce hand fatigue, to custom valvings and one-off prototype fork internals to spoke tension tuned wheels and oh so much more tomfoolery to document and share.