The request line is open…

Monday, June 23rd from 6:40-8:30 p.m. (Pacific Standard Time), I will be helping Amanda Eichstaedt spin tunes on KWMR as she, in turn, is covering The Hippie from Olema Show. In trying to come up with a theme, we finally decided to make it an all request show. Takes the pressure off of us. So, […]

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New, old bikes…

I’ve always liked the simple, classic design of the traditional English 3-speed. Not long ago, I decided to investigate what the list of Craig has to offer and found a his and hers Raleigh Superbe 3-speed for sale. A quick negotiation and they were ours. They turned out to be super clean, still retaining their […]

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You say kethup, I say catch up…

With regards to bikes the industry needs more of… I sold this DiamondBack Transporter over the weekend. This bike is one of those “just right” bikes. Just the right price for a first bike in many, many years buyer. Just the right spec – I gotta love the no suspension fork, complete with fenders, steel […]

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Funny how some things work…

I’ve been out of a certain lock for a few weeks. Finally got around to ordering more last week. They came in yesterday. Sold out within a few hours. Guess four locks wasn’t enough. I had never ordered any half-links for dialing in single-speed bikes until earlier this week. Ordered two thinking, “what the heck, […]

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Bike industry rant…

And now it hits home. Model years, huh. What are they good for. Absolutely nothing. Listen to me. Okay, so I took a little liberty from Edwin Starr. But really, model years are a bane to the bike industry. Maybe not “model years” per se, because some form of identifying production by specification needs to […]

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Six degrees of separation, Black Mountain style…

Actually, it’s probably only two or three degrees. Here’s a few funny coincidental instances that have happened at the shop. A few months ago, Grant Petersen of Rivendell stopped by. I saw the bike he parked out front and pretty much knew it was Grant. I’d never met him and always admired what he’s done […]

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What’s in the stand…

AKA “You learn something new every day.” Had a nice fillet-brazed Mikelsen dropped off for some work a few days ago. It’s that tiny bike sitting behind my bike in the post below. It was built up with a mix of Campy Nuovo Record and 6-speed Dura Ace. The owner wanted to set it up […]

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I must be a friggin’ giant…

Was sitting here typing up some e-mails and glanced over at my bike sitting next to a customer’s bike and the massive variance in sizes just hit me. Holy cow! I must be a friggin’ giant! The seat on that Mikelsen (it’s a beautiful fillet-brazed frame) doesn’t even clear the top tube on my bike. […]

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Bong, bong, bong…

No, that’s not what this is about, although one might ask what those engineers and designers were smoking… What that is, is the tolling of the bells signaling the death of the cleanly designed, polished silver road component group – and crankarms specifically. Shimano’s Dura Ace was the last hold-out. Some would claim that the […]

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My new web site…

Welp, it’s not like I was looking for a new web site, but this guy just took over and assumed the role of web master as well. And you thought this would be about a new web site… I have to thank Amanda for the comedic inspiration when she was in earlier and spied the […]

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Mixed terrain…

When I moved here, I did some internet searching for rides in the Marin area. What I found were a few personal websites/blogs that seemed to favor my favorite type of rides. They called them mixed terrain rides – combining paved roads and trails and dirt roads and trails. I like riding my bike wherever […]

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Click, click, click…following links…

So, sitting here waiting for live updates from the Giro on velonews.com (a quite exciting stage yesterday and everything is on the wire coming into today mountain stage followed by tomorrow’s final stage – a time trial in Milan), I visited JimG’s sfcyclotouring blog to see what he’s got going on. He’s got a post […]

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