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When big trees, the kind that are cut for timber, are standing, well, they're pretty darn high. Yup, I'm playing on that with this post's title. Even before I was an amateur logger on my current land, I had a history of using wood for bike parts. At the end of the 2003 race season, I thought I'd had my fill of competing on two wheels, so I set about assembling the bike I'd long said I would build at that point: one with as few fragile things to break as possible. I wanted no suspension, no hydraulic brakes, and for shifting, that would be controlled with a simple, light, durable thumb shifter. I found an offering of my desired eight speed Sun Tour shifters, brand new, from Bikeman.com , owned by Davis Carver, whom I highly respect, in Woolwich Maine. The only issue, they had only rear shifters. Ok, most of my shifting is rear, and I'll eventually find a front shifter. Until then, one will do. Instead, I learned that one chainring is plenty in the woods. Who kne...
