October 24, 2019
Bike of the Week: A Two-Piece Titanium Traveler
Quite often we build bikes for a specific destination. A light weight climbing bike for a trip to the Pyrenees, a long travel mountain bike for trips to the Whistler bike park... Sometimes, though, the need for a bike is less about the destination, and more about the journey. For this...
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...
October 09, 2019
Hail, Rain, Sun, and Snow at the California Grinduro
Weather Underground,Dark Sky, AccuWeather. Quincy, California. Refresh, refresh, refresh. Weather Underground,Dark Sky, AccuWeather. Quincy, California. Refresh, refresh, refresh. If you like to ride bikes in the dirt and you like to party in the mountains, you probably followed this cadence repeatedly over the final week of September, leading up to...
September 26, 2019
Bike of the Week: Blue White and Green UP
No matter the season, no matter the location, the gravel fever seems to know no end. This week, we're excited to feature a breathtaking Open U.P. The mission? To build a super fast all-terrain rig ready to take on the the mountainous backroads of the Colorado Front Range. We mixed...
September 25, 2019
Getting my Feet Wet in Gravel by Jumping Head First into a 140 Mile Grinder
As a recovering triathlete married to a road cyclist, most of the chatter I’ve heard around gravel racing is skeptical. You often hear things like “gravel is for Instagram” or when you get dropped in a gravel race, you can just say you were there to “have fun”...among other things....
September 22, 2019
Riding the Cadex 42s: The Way Too Early New Wheel Review
It seems that almost every morning, upon checking my email inbox for the first time of the day, I'm hit with a barrage of new cycling products that have just launched. Rims, saddle bags, revolutionary flat fixing devices, apparel pieces that will take me to before unheard of levels of...
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...
September 18, 2019
A Vertical Quarter Mile of Pain: Red Bull Bay Climb
The beauty of bike racing is the plethora of unorthodox avenues anyone can pursue these days. While "gravel" might take the spotlight as the hyped up alternative to both traditional road racing and even cyclocross, even that looks mainstream compared to the activities thriving in our sport's subcultures. Even looking...
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...
September 09, 2019
So What is Prova Cycles, Anyway?
Sometimes, you see a bike and you just know it’s something special. That’s what we thought when we saw our first Prova, the disc-brake modern road Speciale model. “I’m not even a disc guy but that’s a hot looking bike,” our founder, Chad, recalls thinking. The bikes kept popping up...
September 05, 2019
Prova Cycles: Now Available at Above Category
Here at Above Category, we're a selective bunch. From the bikes we ride, to the apparel we wear, to the roads and trails we traverse we're on a continued journey seeking the best and most unique the cycling world has to offer, testing it all exhaustingly before we deem it...
