June 13, 2020
Bike of the Week: A Superbly Custom UPPER
Today we're excited to unveil our latest Open UPPER, and it's truly one of a kind. These custom projects are a culmination of weeks, sometimes months, of collaboration between the client, and our painters at Velocolour, and ourselves. More than just the paint job, we needed to ensure the all...
May 21, 2020
Bike of the Week: An Australian Steel All-Roader
Every day we get to unveil a new Prova Cycles build is a great day, and today is certainly no exception. Our latest is this blue steel all-road beauty, ready to take on the terrain of the San Francisco Bay area and beyond—be it paved or not. Let's dive into...
Derek Yarra
May 14, 2020
Bike of the Week: A Black and Bourbon Prova Speciale
This week we unveil a bike that Johnny Cash himself would've approved of. It's metal, dressed in black, and knows the value of fine whiskey - a stainless steel Prova Speciale, built in Australia for the Marin County tarmac. There might not be much room to carry a guitar, but this...
Derek Yarra
May 07, 2020
Bike(s) of the Week - A Sarto Double Feature
Disc vs. Rim. Has any debate kept riders so divided as this in the history of cycling? Fear not, this is not another debate article scrutinizing the merits and failures of either stopping system. Instead, we're sharing a pair of hand built Sarto road bikes for a rider who simply...
Derek Yarra
April 30, 2020
The Evolution of a Rider's Stable - Part 2: A Mechanical Titanium Mosaic
N+1, the famed equation for the optimal number bikes in our collection. No matter how content we are with what we're riding, each bike is a learning experience, and as our tastes refine, there's always the fantasy of the next project build. Sometimes that equation needs to be altered to...
Derek Yarra
April 16, 2020
Bike of the Week: A Featherweight Open One+
There are many who insist that the best gravel bike is in fact a hardtail mountain bike. Sure, gravel bikes are getting more and more capable and we do love them so. However, when a fully functioning mountain bike dips below the 20lb mark, it's a tough call as to...
Derek Yarra
April 09, 2020
Bike of the Week: A Tangerine Pinarello Dogma F12 Dream
It's bright. It's loud. It's fast. This week we unveil the latest Pinarello build to roll out of AC. Not just any bike, this is Chad's personal Dogma F12 test bike, so you know it's gonna be done up right. With an electronic Campagnolo build and an array of hidden...
Derek Yarra
April 02, 2020
Bike of the week: An Italian AF Sarto Seta
Clean, white, and Italian AF. This week we share our latest collaboration with our Venice based friends at Sarto, built for one of our local California riders. The brief was simple—make it fast, make it climb, and make it as Italian as possible. The result was this pearl white Seta...
Derek Yarra
January 24, 2020
BOTW: A Satin Sarto Seta Plus
It's a new year and the shop has already been bustling with some out of this world builds. Road, gravel, mountain—it's all been going down here in the AC headquarters, and we're excited to share our first featured build of 2020. Emerging from all that hustle is this satin Sarto Seta...
Derek Yarra
December 24, 2019
Twelve Days of Breathtaking Builds—Day 12: An Elevated U.P.P.E.R.
It's Christmas Day and we've at last made it to the end of our Twelve Days series. Here on our finale, we take a look at one of our first builds of 2019, a bike that truly set the bar for the rest of the year. A Swiss inspired gravel...
December 05, 2019
Bike of the Week: A Prismatica Moisaic RT-1
We've had no shortage of Mosaic builds around here, but with the craze for gravel still going strong, it's been a minute since we've taken an order for a road bike. Finally, we've got a new RT-1 built up, and boy was it worth the wait. While any RT-1 is a work...
Derek Yarra
