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...
August 29, 2019
Bike of the Week: Our Enve Summit Sarto Seta Plus
If you've been keeping tabs on our social posts or made a visit to our studio in the last month or so, this week's featured bike might not come as a surprise. If you haven't, then we're excited to show you something new. We've quietly been building our relationship with Sarto over...
August 29, 2019
All of the Builders, All of the Bikes, All Under One Roof: The Enve Builders Summit
This is the third and final installment from our visit to Enve earlier this month. ICYM check the previous entries here: Premium Performance Built in the USA and here: Diving Blind into Utah's Prime Gravel. You might be wondering what exactly we were doing out in Utah in the first...
August 27, 2019
Diving Blind into Utah's Prime Gravel: The Enve Grodeo
This post is a follow up to our visit to the Enve Composites headquarters which you can check out here: Premium Performance Built in the USA. Photos Courtesy Ian Matteson/Enve. It was clear how much pride the team at Enve takes in their engineering and manufacturing prowess, but it's important...
August 22, 2019
Bike of the Week: A California Sunset Open U.P.
Few things fill our stoke as much as building lasting relationships with the riders we build bikes for. This week, we got to build a new dream machine for one of our earliest riders who's become a close AC friend. His last off-road bike was one of the hottest bikes in our...
August 22, 2019
Premium Performance Built in the USA: A Look Inside Enve's HQ
Since the inception of Above Category, we've always stuck to a razor sharp focus on finding the best performing products that rise above marketing hype and truly deliver on giving the best possible experience on the bike. Alongside that focus, we've had an undying fascination with bespoke, handcrafted machines. Throughout our...
August 08, 2019
Meeting a Master: The Man Behind Prova Cycles
3D printed junctures, hand-wrapped carbon tubes, immaculately welded steel... Prova Cycles truly represents the modern era of bicycle frame building. Next Wednesday (8/14), we’ll be hosting Mark Hester, the man behind Prova, for an afternoon of talking shop, right here at Above Category. From 4-7, drop on by for a chance to...
