Bed of Roses Update via Zoom
Bryan of Royal H Cycles, Phil of local possibly national lore, and I sat down for an update on the Bed of Roses all road revolution bike. Apologies for the cursing. Bed of Roses
Huge Progress – B.O.R. Update
Bryan Hollingsworth of Royal H Cycles sent an email last week with wonderful news. The Bed of Roses Frameset is ready for paint! He sent tantalizing photos as well, seen below. Next up is to confirm the paint template and send it off to get painted. Actually, before we do that, we’ll have a live […]
Total Gratification – Bed of Roses Update #2
One way I might be accused of showing my age is my nostalgia for delayed gratification. Remember when you had to collect a certain amount of UPC symbols to either receive or be allowed to pay for the Emperor Star Wars action figure? You couldn’t just head over to the local Child World or Toy […]
Project – Bed of Roses Update #1
We’re plodding along, and have made a few big decisions on the project already, even in its infancy: Tubeset – Ordered! Using both Jan Heine and Bryan Hollingsworth’s wisdom, we opted for oversized, thin wall tubing and a 1” steerer. These are butted steel Kaisei tubes with a wall thickness of .7/.4/.7 , which should […]
Project Bike
A hundred years ago, when there were no more hand-me-down bikes to give me, I was gifted a dream bike, the Trek 1000. Black with blue outlined red decals, all the best colors, nothing more. There has never been a faster bike. Equipped with Suntour Edge components and Trek’s own Matrix hard anodized grey rims, […]
A Tale of Two All City Super Professionals
When All-City Cycles released the Super Professional a few months ago, the shop was aflutter with chatter. “What dis?” we said. The ad copy was luscious, it read: ELEGANT SUPER COMMUTER Informed by our famed cross geometry to be fast, responsive, agile, and capable on mixed terrain, the Super Professional is a full-on everyday destroyer loaded […]
Tire Changing Season
Over the past month and a half, we have bike packed out to Lake Waramaug via my favorite roads, hard packed dirt you can set sail on, but soft enough for a quiet, cushy ride. Along the way we found loose sand on the Bridal Trail, and the technical single track of West Rock. Not […]
The Modern Road Bike Continued
This is part two of my ramblings on what defines the “modern road bike.” These are merely my opinions, and I am interested to hear yours as well. I am working on the definition of a modern road bike because I am working on our next demo bike, which I hope will embody the idea of the modern road bike. Another […]
The Modern Road Bike
We met up with some friends who ride with the Pequot Cyclists of eastern Connecticut on the front lawn of Fox Farm Brewery midway through a True to Brew. We were firmly in their neck of the woods, which is to say on roads without traffic that require frequent out of the saddle efforts before being […]
NAHBS – 2018
I overheard someone refer to the annual North American Handmade Bike Show as the “World Series of Bike Shows,” and I thought that sounded pretty appropriate. My first trip to NAHBS was in 2010 when I worked the Seven Cycles booth in Richmond, Virginia. That show opened my eyes to a whole new world of […]