Tuesday, June 9, 2009

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...

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Monday, June 8, 2009

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.

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Friday, June 5, 2009

New stuff from Volume on the way

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

First up... the Fu Manchu fork.

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

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

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Thursday, June 4, 2009

Still dreaming...

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

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Go Fast Turn Left KEIRIN Tournament

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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.

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Work hard, play hard

They may not look like it but Andrew and Ian are great mechanics. They take fixing bikes VERY seriously. Anyone that knows them also knows they also take goofing off just a serious. On a much needed break between fixing bikes they decided perform some "stress tests" on Mavic wheel bags.

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The good news is that Mavic wheel bags are just as high a quality as their wheels and passed their barrage of stress tests.

Tuesday night

Summer time in Richmond means many things. To many on two wheels it means just one though. The Bryan Park Tuesday night races.

This has been a staple of Richmond area bike racing for around 30 years now and continues to grow each year. Last night was the second race this season. Throughout the race several of the local teams slugged it out and in the end Dan King came up with the win. Carytown's Andrew Alli picked up 3rd to better his 4th place result from last week.

There are two races each week that are divided up by ability. A few times this summer there are even kids races.

Check out this video that CJ Congrove shot of the A race last night. No bike mounted camera antics but still very cool.

Tuesday Night at Bryan Park from CJ Congrove on Vimeo.