August 04, 2017
The Twelve Days of Breathtaking Builds: Day Six - The Surgeon's Argonaut
Halfway points. Sometimes they're celebrated. Sometimes they're dreaded. Sometimes, like the 11km sign in a 20km TT that's going really well, they're a moment of elation as our power ticks upward and the Slayer pounding in our head amplifies. That's how the Twelve Days of Breathtaking Builds is going. No,...
August 04, 2017
The Twelve Days of Breathtaking Builds: Day Nine - Mosaic's Nuevo Classic RS-1
The finishing straight has arrived. Day Nine is upon us – four builds remain in the Twelve Days, and we’re excited to roll this one out for your perusal. Crafted by the precision builders of Mosaic in Colorado, it’s a striking example of what happens when we’re given creative license...
August 04, 2017
The Twelve Days of Breathtaking Builds: Day Eleven - The Belgian Baum
The penultimate day is here, and with it, our final two Breathtaking Builds. We’ll keep these short and sweet, as they’re both getting their own features in the Journal in January 2016, but we figured that since they both came together in the waning moments of 2015, they were deserving...
August 04, 2017
The Twelve Days of Breathtaking Builds: The Wrap.
The Twelve Days of Breathtaking Builds are over. Bummed? A little. We wanted to thank everyone for reading, calling, emailing, texting, and commenting their support and excitement. We’re extremely grateful to have been given the opportunity to put our creative vision, passion, and love of cycling into functional art; man’s...
August 04, 2017
To Borrow a Wunderbike The AC Mosaic RT-1 Demo Program
Meet not-your-average rental: The Above Category Mosaic RT-1 Demo, a curated AC build made to fly over Marin County's toughest roads.
August 04, 2017
The Skinny on Power A Mea Culpa on Week 1/2
It's a known fact that travel is disruptive. Travel interrupts routine. Routine, more than willpower, is what fuels even the most dedicated of professional cyclists (and being PRO in every field, for that matter). Routine and routine's habits always trump desire, whether it's desire to sit on the couch, desire...
August 04, 2017
Mosaic Social The Afterglow
The event wrap-up on the Mosaic Social held at Above Category on February 24th, an evening of education with Aaron Barcheck from Mosaic Cycles and their full line of handcrafted bikes from Boulder, Colorado.
August 04, 2017
BOTW Dave's Orba Occam
This week we take a departure from our usual stream of handmade titanium and steel road bikes to show you something a little different. This bike is neither made of metal or a road bike, but instead an all carbon, full suspension mountain bike. It's not often that we build...
August 04, 2017
The Holy Grail of Bibs Q36.5's Salopette L1 Essential
The best performance marker for a pair of bibshorts has always been a metric of inconspicuousness. If the wearer didn’t notice them, they had done their job. Enter the Q36.5 Salopette L1 Essential Bibshorts, which embody the “second skin” philosophy outlined above to a T. Born from the Northern Italian...
August 04, 2017
Jack of All Trades, Master of None: 700c vs 27.5"
There’s a great deal to be said for versatility, especially in the hyper-specialized (no pun intended) world of premium road cycling. Aero-this. Climbing-that. Cobbled-there. It’s the world of bikes-turned-racecars, so it’s incomparably refreshing when something like the Open UP comes rolling around, lightly promising to be all things to almost...
Derek Yarra
August 03, 2017
Bike of the Week - A Dipped Tip Baum Cubano
Clean and simple is always a great choice and knowing hot to add just the right level of pop is what can really take a bike over the top. This week we bring you an incredible Baum Cuban, blending matte and gloss black with just the tips dipped in glossy...
