March 20, 2025
At MidSouth When The Fires Rolled In
At MidSouth we were starkly reminded that there’s so much more to life than nutrition and choosing the best tire… It was late afternoon the day before the big race. Everyone had their game faces on and we were ready to go. The entire course had been pre-ridden. Dinner had been consumed. Race day...
March 06, 2025
BOTW: Responsorium Romance, Wedding Anniversary Pegorettis
His and Hers Pegorettis Most romantics know the first anniversary is a gift of paper and the fifth is wood. While the 7th and 8th are copper and bronze. What you probably didn’t know, and what Heather and David manifested, is that the 12th Anniversary is a gift of an...
Julius Berith
March 03, 2025
Brennan Wertz Looks Back on Three Incredible Years with Mosaic Cycles
Oh where to begin. To be quite honest, this wasn’t an easy journal article to write. But alas, as alluded to in the title, the end of 2024 marked the end of my time racing professionally for Mosaic Cycles. I've enjoyed every moment spent racing, training, and adventuring atop their...
Brennan Wertz
February 13, 2025
BOTW: Single Speed Sunburst Mosaic Masterpiece
The ask We love when folks come in with unique requests. Brad hit us with "I want a single-speed titanium bike that I can ride on both the road and gravel." Mosaic GT-1 AR We used Mosaic's titanium GT-1 AR frameset as our base, with sliding drop-outs and clearance for...
Kalara Schuster
February 06, 2025
BOTW: Julius' Pristine Prova Speciale
A Prova is always going to be something special The ultra-talented two-person Australian team produces a very limited, very coveted, amount of frames a year. A scant 35 minute drive from Melbourne, you'll find Mark and Kelly Hester (yes, same last name, brother and sister that get along well enough...
Kalara Schuster
January 29, 2025
JB's Scarab Apuna Long-term Review
Here we are in the rainy season, and I find myself staying dry after last year's move to "sunny California" when nobody warned me about the rain and king tide in Marin, but I have learned my lesson since. Earlier in the year, I had the opportunity to build my...
Julius Berith
January 29, 2025
BOTW: A Scarab Letras for a Local
This customer walked into the AC studio to inquire about an insulated vest that would help to keep him warm on the cold mornings here in Sausalito. As he's a local, we've run into each other multiple times and have slowly become friends over the last few months. When it...
Julius Berith
January 16, 2025
Mike’s Bastion 007: Eight Years on and Still the Real Deal
The Bastion 007 arrived at AC in October of 2016, all raw ti lugs, wound carbon tubes, and splashes of red on the logos and dropouts. The build was straightforward and comprised a SRAM Red Etap 11-speed group with a Quarq power meter, Enve 3.4s laced to a White Industries...
Mike Wilson
January 09, 2025
A Lotus-Inspired Mosaic GT-1 45
This customer came to us to build his forever bike, a challenge we often get presented with at Above Category and one we always relish. After reviewing our portfolio of builders, we recommended Mosaic Cycles to our client, initially looking at the brand's 2-series line (stock sizing, raw finish, straight gauge...
Julius Berith
December 12, 2024
The Sarto Raso Gravel and the Evolution of Drop-Bar Off-Road Bikes
When "Gravel" bikes became an official thing eight or nine years ago, I had a bit of a chuckle. Who would want to ride that? Anything one of these new balloon tire road bikes could do, a hardtail mountain bike could do better.Despite my misgivings, we were still among the...
Chad Nordwall
November 28, 2024
Winter Is Upon Us
Bay Area winter is upon us. The winter months in our neck of the woods are very different from the wet PNW winter I grew up with or the dark and bitter cold Midwest winter. It seems that Bay Area winters are getting a tad closer to what we had in...
Chad Nordwall
