This Paolo Salvagione Swift cyclocross bike just oozes coolness. Whether it’s from the subtle light blue metallic paint, brass head badge, clean frame design, custom brake bridge, RockShox Mag 21 SL-Ti fork, WTB Mini-Cam brakes, or the classic Campy Record crankset. It was in pretty nice shape when it came in, but now with fresh […]
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The highest praise one can ever receive always comes from a source that goes out of their way to seek you out specifically to write a positive note. It was very nice to check out the Black Mountain Cycles Facebook page yesterday and find this note: “One of the coolest bike shops I’ve been to […]
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What a treat it was to have this bike pass through the shop on its way to a friend of mine who is its new owner. What we have here is an Alan that Charlie Cunningham owned in the ’70s. He sold the bike in the late ’70s to finance equipment that would enable him […]
Filed under: What's in the stand
I’m still working on getting the details when I’ll have frames. Everything should be ready. Just working out a couple minor details. Once I have all the information in hand, I’ll post it so folks know the scoop. For now, here’s a little what’s in the stand. Part of an early ’70s Masi resto. Not […]
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Part 2 of today’s What’s In The Stand installment is a little something-something from over the hill in Fairfax. I got a phone call yesterday from a guy who has been following this blog for a while. He called to find out if I am going to be open today (yes), since I note in […]
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Here’s a bike that was recently in the stand. Custom Steve Potts 26″ wheel mountain bike. The owner originally was going to go with flat bars. However, after visiting my shop and seeing all the mountain bikes I have with drop bars, decided to pull out her old WTB drops and thumb shift adapters to […]
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In all my years of getting bikes ready for photo shoots, sales meetings, tradeshows…every thing always, always comes down to the wire. You can plan to have frames and parts months in advance, but something always happens that really pushes the envelope. I ceased stressing about deadlines long ago knowing that being stressed doesn’t make […]
Filed under: Black Mountain Cycles frames
I tried. I really tried. I tried to not disparage or make fun of stuff like this. Some of my past comments were a bit childish. I thought I was over it. And I was. But then this! Oh, the horror one can imagine when I gazed upon the photo of the bike with that, […]
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Been getting regular reports from Taiwan of my frame production. The samples I’ve been riding for a while are pretty spot on with a couple of minor revisions I made for the production frames. The road frame’s rear tire clearance was a bit too tight for the Jack Brown 33.3 tire so I increased the […]
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A sweet little Ibis SS. What a great riding bike. My ’91 SS is one of my favorite bikes. Matches the Park Tool blue perfectly. (What’s playing: Uncle Tupelo Anodyne)
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Finished this really sweet single-speed scorcher style Surly Cross-Check today. Turned out great. Funny thing about this bike is the new owner is an old friend from when I worked at Pacific Coast Cycles pre-1993. One day he called me out of the blue and we reconnected a mere 17 years later. Recently he got […]
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Almost too busy to post anything. There have been some sweet bikes through the stand (I’ll get some pics up soon). Not too busy to get a couple really nice rides in the past couple of mornings. Got out on the road yesterday for about 2 hours out to Kehoe Beach. Did a little couple […]
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