When something stands the test of time, it becomes a classic. As far as I am concerned, everything else is “contemporary junk” items. I would strongly encourage anyone interested in living well on very little to “invest”, that is, buy and own classics rather than cheap—frugal is sometimes used as a euphemism—junk. Now, it will [...]

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Here is the second rendition of the “twitter interview”. The rules are that you can ask me “any” question provided that it’s kept to 140 characters in the spirit of twitter. You can ask me either on twitter where I’m known as extremejacob or in the comments below and I will collect the questions for [...]

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I have added a link to bicycletutor.com in the right sidebar under useful tools. What I like about this site are the video tutorials, which for me is the most effective way to link how to do anything manual—I can’t put the things together by reading about them. In addition, the tutorials describe what tools [...]

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