Thought I’d use this space that is the 600th published post and say “thanks.” Thanks to everyone who has supported Black Mountain Cycles by either visiting the shop, buying a water bottle, or just enjoying it in your own special way. I also want to use this space to let folks know that Black Mountain […]
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Tire Tuesday Part 2, is an attempt to do some inventory reduction, I realize I have way too many Vee Rubber 12 and XCX tires in stock. So, while supplies last you can purchase a pair of XCX 29 x 1.75 or a pair of the V12 29 x 1.95 tires for $75 shipped to […]
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Tires, tires, and more tires. Still really digging the Clément X’Plor MSO tires. Word from the guys at Clément is that a 50mm version is in the works. Now we’re talking. That’s going to be a goodun. In the mean time the 40mm version is working quite nicely. I put the MSO to another test […]
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While perusing bikeradar.com’s coverage of the Dauphiné, I noticed the coverage of the rider’s lightened bikes for the climbing stages. There are a lot of methods the teams employee to lighten a rider’s bike. Race leader, Bradley Wiggins, employed a couple of bikes with custom built light wheels. One element that was not employed to […]
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I just realized I posted reviews of two tires and didn’t list actual widths or weights for either tire. Heresy? Maybe. The level of detail that drives me these days isn’t in gram counting or caliper scrutinizing. It’s in the subjective. Did they work to my expectations? Did I have fun? At a certain level, […]
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There’s been some pretty great releases of new larger volume tires recently. Vee Rubber listed a whole slew of tires (too many in too short of a window) that are supposed to be coming down the pike in the 40 to 50mm width range. However, I have my doubts that they will actually bring all […]
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Tire One For the past 3 years or so, I have been trying to burn through a stash of cross tires I collected over the years of product management where tire companies throw tires at you in hopes of their getting spec on your bikes. Those days are long gone, but the tires weren’t. My […]
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Went for a ride up and back on Bolinas Ridge Sunday morning. My preferred route is to ride down Hwy. 1 to the Randall trailhead and turn up Randall, which is a 1.7 mile 900′ climb up a pretty nice service road. From there, I usually pedal north a bit, head down Shafter Trail to […]
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What a treat to work on Cunningham #1B recently and then #2B comes in for some work. Initially, #2B was going to come in for new, while-you-wait, decal application. The decals are a two layer application. First layer is the decal with a second layer that is clear and protects the first layer. They were […]
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This old Cunningham came in a while back for a new fork and some attention. The new Type II fork was made by Steve Potts and then sent off to Joe Bell for silver paint. The same Imron silver paint that adorns pretty much every other Cunningham fork and stem. There’s a lot that goes […]
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Two weeks since the last blog post. Dang that goes by fast. Plenty busy at the shop. Some fun “what’s in the stand” shots. Some great upcoming WITS previews. Some fun riding. And since it’s illegal to ride most of the trails in the national park here, I started trail running a few months ago. […]
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Back in 1989, I was working at Pacific Coast Cycles. Although during that summer, I left with a friend to ride our bikes to Boston. And in a grass-is-always-greener moment, left to work for a spell for Mammoth Mountain Bikes. It was sometime during 1989 that this Salsa custom came to be. I don’t specifically […]
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