Been busy. Too busy, seemingly, to post anything here. Takes time to upload photos, think up something to write, and do all that and take care of all the bikes that are coming in. This post will be a “what’s in the stand” post on a recent cross bike I built. This cross bike represents […]
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Following Cam’s advice on this post, I saddled up last Sunday and rode south on Highway 1 and found Coast View Trail several miles south of Stinson Beach and just south of Slide Ranch. It was definitely more technical than Stagecoach Fire Road. More technical since it was a single-track climb for a bit over […]
Filed under: Mixed Terrain, Rides
This was a first. Pretty fun build too. The owner came up and went for a ride out on the seashore while I built up a Black Mountain Cycles cross bike with an Xtracycle extension. But not before setting up his laptop to take a time-lapse video of the build. Then he went out the […]
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I posted the above photo yesterday on Facebook. I was busy building a set of cross wheels for a friend and preparing the rims and tires with a layer of Vittoria Mastik. I thought the image of the fresh Challenge Grifo and the can of cement was a nice composition. Still do. My buddy Rob […]
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In 2009, the Dino Ride rolled through Pt. Reyes Station stopping at the shop to have a broken spoke replaced. The owner of the Richard Sachs ,whose spoke broke, was also the organizer of the ride. In 2010, he invited me to participate on the ride, but I had other obligations. I also didn’t feel […]
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Took some pics out on a ride last Sunday. I rarely do any digital working of the photos I take in the shop or on the road. I may occasionally crop a photo. Sometimes a photo looks like it would be better in black & white. When I do convert an image to b/w, I’ll […]
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Alright, here’s the deal. I love this local radio station, KWMR, we have and am honored that I host a couple of shows on it and get to sub for some fantastic folks and their great shows. This is the kind of station that everyone dreams about and it’s in my own backyard. Tonight on […]
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I recently built up a really sweet new Steve Potts 29″er with a Type II fork. While I was building it, another Potts 29″er single-speed with Type II fork was in the stand for work. It was super coincidental that the owner of the new Potts decided to order a frame from Steve after seeing […]
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I’ve been meaning to pedal to the top of Tam on the dirt on my road bike for some time. The problem is that the most road bike-able dirt road up Tam is Railroad grade, which starts in Mill Valley, a good almost 2 hour pedal just to get to the start. So I pulled […]
Filed under: Mixed Terrain, Rides
Got some new fat tires in the shop. Not fat like these fat tires, but fat for their intended installation application. What I got was a shipment of Kenda Happy Medium 700 x 40 tires that had been on my watch list with a distributor for a long, long, long time. They finally arrived and […]
Filed under: New in the shop
That’s right. Black Mountain Cycles frames are genuine Trek replacement parts. For evidence I present the Trek Pilot something or other. What it is is a silver aluminum frame with carbon seatstay and a replaceable derailleur hanger. What this Trek didn’t have is a strong enough dropout that was attached to the chainstay and seat […]
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That’s right. My cross bike will take 1/2 hour off your two hour loop. Imagine that. A full 25% faster. All these big-shot fancy bike companies are spending untold monies trying to develop a faster bike and all they needed was one of my cross bikes. I built up one of my cross frames with […]
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