November 01, 2019
Bike of the Week: A One of a Kind Grey Scale Pinarello Dogma F12
Ride like the pros. Be like Froome, look like Sagan... We see it every day, bike brands using the likeness of their marquee teams and riders as a selling point for their latest bikes and "limited edition" paint jobs. While there's nothing wrong with wanting to assimilate with your heroes, we are...
Derek Yarra
October 17, 2019
Bike of the Week: A Seductive Seta Plus
Say you wanted to build the ultimate modern road bike—lightweight, streamlined design, ample clearance for high volume tires, and integrated cabling. There's no shortage of options out there these days, but say you wanted to have all of that that in a carbon platform with a perfectly tailored custom fit... and...
Derek Yarra
September 19, 2019
Bike of the Week: A Single Speed Sarto
Today, we share an especially unique build. A road bike, stripped of its gears and derailleurs for single speed journeys, with the ability to flip to fixed for days on the track. A custom carbon frame built our Italian friends at Sarto, ready to be ridden in the rolling hills of Northern...
Derek Yarra
September 12, 2019
Chad's Prova Speciale
No matter how good something looks or how well we get along with a builder, before we take on a new custom bike brand, it's essential we have a bike of our own built. We need to understand their process from start to finish, and need to experience first hand how...
Derek Yarra
August 29, 2019
Bike of the Week: Our Enve Summit Sarto Seta Plus
If you've been keeping tabs on our social posts or made a visit to our studio in the last month or so, this week's featured bike might not come as a surprise. If you haven't, then we're excited to show you something new. We've quietly been building our relationship with Sarto over...
August 22, 2019
Bike of the Week: A California Sunset Open U.P.
Few things fill our stoke as much as building lasting relationships with the riders we build bikes for. This week, we got to build a new dream machine for one of our earliest riders who's become a close AC friend. His last off-road bike was one of the hottest bikes in our...
July 25, 2019
Bike of the Week: A Stripped Down Ti Graveler
This week, we share another beautiful sample of Mosaic's handiwork. A bike destined to be a multi-purposed vehicle with a clean, utilitarian approach. The goal of the project was a single bike that could serve as a daily commuter, a gravel adventure bike, and a rain ready winter bike. Mosaic's...
June 20, 2019
Bike of the Week: A Climber's All-Terrain Open
There are so many things we love about the Open gravel bikes. Their clean lines, scant weight, ample tire clearance... but if we had to name a single trait to pick as our favorite, it'd have to be their unmatched versatility. Take a look through our catalog of past builds, and you'll...
Derek Yarra
June 13, 2019
Bike of the Week: A Strawberry Rum Punch Baum Orbis
When the temperatures start grazing triple digits, there's no denying the allure of an ice cold, tropical elixir. With the summer solstice upon us and the mercury rising, it's only fitting that our latest build brings the heat. Continue on as we profile this strawberry rum punch road bike. The core of the...
Derek Yarra
May 30, 2019
Bike of the Week: A Dogma Like no Other
We’ve painted a few Pinarello Dogma’s in the past, but they were pretty tame one color affairs. Don’t get me wrong, they looked great and drew some attention, but for this Pinarello F10 (yes, we do know there is a new bike out there now) we wanted to really take...
Chad Nordwall
May 23, 2019
Bike of the Week: A Faded GT-1 Ready to Rally the Lost and Found
This week we unveil a bike that is particularly special to us at AC. Derek, our marketing manager and photographer, worked with Mosaic Cycles to create his dream gravel race bike with any eye focused on events like the Lost & Found, a 106 mile gravel grinder in the Sierra mountains....
Derek Yarra
