December 17, 2015
The Twelve Days of Breathtaking Builds: Day Four – Mosaic's XT-1 Weapon
The hour is nigh - Christmas morning is but a week away. If you're one of the unorganized, like yours truly, you're hitting the panic button, frantically mailing cards and buying gifts. If, on the other hand, you're not - you passed handwriting with flying colors, your desktop is kept...
December 15, 2015
Introducing the Twelve Days of Breathtaking Builds: Day One.
Over the holidays, as you're bombarded with email from cut-rate discounters offering 12-day flash sales peppered with unhinged desperation to move obsolescent product, we decided to offer up something a bit more...refreshing. Meet our Twelve Days of Christmas event, but instead of partaking in tradition of hawking off-brand XXXL bibshorts...
December 09, 2015
Bike of the Week: Ciavete Dreams
This week in our popular feature, a Pegoretti Responsorium Ciavete hewn from the dreams of Dario's loyal fanbase. Ciavete is Pegoretti's original "Surprise Me" paint scheme, an artist given his liberty with a blank canvas. On this assemblage of Columbus XCr stainless steel tubing is Dario's vision translated into pink, fuchsia,...
December 07, 2015
Embracing Winter's Misery with Q36.5
The days are short, nights long. Mornings are frigid. Evening is worse. If there is a hell for cyclists, the whole of the Northern Hemisphere above the 37th Parallel is being dipped into it for a three-month swim. This is when a nice ride can go from a simple excursion...
December 04, 2015
The Periphery: In Pursuit of Perfection with Q36.5
Hyperbole. It's a word, but also a notable human attitude, the ability to lose perspective of the grey hues lying in the middle of the poles of an idea, of a thing, of a product. It fuels war, cable news, politicians, and marketing campaigns the world over. Sometimes, though, when...
November 10, 2015
BOTW: Black and Blue Dogma
Since Pinarello unveiled their 2016 Dogma colors earlier this year, we have been very impatiently waiting on their arrival. It's been a slow trickle, but one by one they've been showing up in our shop. We finally got a black and blue model in and wasted no time in getting...
November 09, 2015
The Periphery: Alto de Letras
Riding the largest climb in the world, with photography from Manual for Speed: Colombia's Alto de Letras, a 12,000-foot, 50-mile ascent.
October 28, 2015
The Periphery: Scandalous
I wanted to start today out with the obvious issues of sexualizing women for the purpose of selling bikes, and the typical cycling industry response to violating social norms utilizing said marketing. But first, let's talk Artificial Intelligence. I've been seeing this flood into various social media streams over the past couple...
October 28, 2015
BOTW: More Mosaic, More Disc
This week's (technically last week's...) Bike Of The Week is Houston’s new all-terrain Mosaic, better known as the XT-1. This is a cross bike for someone who doesn’t race cross, which is really, most of the population. When built with a more friendly road going geometry it becomes the perfect...
October 22, 2015
The Periphery: Road Racing is Dead, Long Live Road Racing.
Cycling, in the grand scheme, is still very much so in the scientific dark ages, even with the advent of powermeters and wind tunnels. It was only 20-odd years ago that we all listened to the crazy Polish guy advocating eating horse meat, because horses are fast. Method and research...
October 16, 2015
BOTW: Pegoretti, a family affair
For this week's Bike of the Week, we bring you a Pegoretti double-header. Heading for the Sunshine State (Florida), we have a Pegoretti Responsorium for Carlos and a Pegoretti Marcelo for his nephew, Danny. They both ordered these bikes about eight months ago and their patience rewarded them with these...
