Logo placement...

Which jersey can you easily make out logos on?

winning a B race

Winning a B race at Bryan Park through a combination of sandbagging and having 6 teammates blocking is pretty cheap.

Shawn's Volume Creedence.

After two weeks of using loaner bikes at Go Fast Turn Left CBC rider Shawn Deal decided he wanted a track bike of his own.

After working out the ever important budget parameters with his wife we set to the task of finding the perfect bike. It is with a bit of irony that we made the decision to set up a Volume Creedence. Volume is a BMX company that happens to make a couple fixed gear bikes that make sense out of the box as a street fixed. So here we have a bike track racing bike that started life as a street bike that was designed because not that long ago bike messengers and other urban riders started taking old track bikes and riding them on the street.

I guess things have come full circle.

But enough history... on to the bike...



Shawn's Creedence is a sleek steel machine. Right out of the box it came with Andle cranks and sealed Novatec hubs built onto a rock solid cromoly frame. All I had to do was gear it up with a 14 tooth cog and swap the riser bars for some drops and hook them to a 130mm Origin8 stem. Race ready!



As you can tell from the maniacal look in his eyes Shaw is very happy with his Volume and counts down the hours at work every Monday before he can go race.

Dolan Kadet Race Build

When Dolan Bikes designed the Kadet they had to know many of these inexpensive but high quality track frames would end up on the street. This frame was bred for the track and they are starting to find their way to the banking. Steve Burton of Sportsquest and Tim Lamb of Team Invisible Bike have both been racing these frames at the Go Fast Turn Left races this year.

I thought it would be fun to build one up into a true "race ready" configuration but on a budget. Basic builds on this frame come in at under $900 but I wanted to use some higher end parts to really make one of these bikes a rocket.

Wheels:



H+Son Formation Face rims. 42mm of aero superiority laced to low flange Origin8 track hubs with adjustable sealed bearings. Throw some ceramics in there and you have a set of wheels on par with Zipp or Reynolds for about 25% of the price.

Cranks:



All-City's super BEEFY new 612 crank arms hopped up to a race gear with a FSA 49 tooth track ring. STIFF!

Bar and stem:



Origin8 again brings killer value to the table with their deep drop Pro Track handle bar and Alloy Ergo Stem.

The whole package comes in at under $1300 and is ready to mix it up with any $5000 super bike on the boards.

Alan's H+Son / Profile wheels

Alan Garvick heard about us on Tarckbike. Down in New Bern, North Carolina there are not bike shops that really do much fixed gear stuff and he had a specific set of wheels in mind to hook up his Surly Steamroller.

Alan hit us up with the request for some H+Son SL42 rims powdercoated white laced to purple Profile Racing fixed gear hubs. I told him "no problem."

After an email to my guy Tzusing all the way over in China and ordered up the rims. A week later they arrived and I laced them up.

Check them out...

Keith is my man...

I think Keith might own a time machine or at least have access to one. There really is no other possible explanation for how he managed to find these original Jan Ullrich Adidas cycling shoes.

Even cooler is that we wear the same size and he didn't need them so I have ended up with another pair of cycling shoes I don't need.

New stuff from Volume on the way

We have some new goodies from Volume coming in VERY soon.

First up... the Fu Manchu fork.



Beefy unicrown with BMX style dropouts to take whatever beating you feel like giving your fixed.



The Krull Spider. 48tooth splined with a 130mm bolt pattern. No more slipping sprockets on your street rig.

Still dreaming...

Come on Sportsquest... don't let me down!

Go Fast Turn Left KEIRIN Tournament

On Monday June 15th Carytown Bicycle Company and Sportsquest.biz bring you a night of fast paced race action at Southside Speedway.

The Keirin is one of the fastest and most exciting types of races in track cycling. If you want to give it a shot we have plenty of loaner bikes available at the track. Or if you just want to come watch the action it's 100% free to come spectate.