December 24, 2016
The Twelve Days of Breathtaking Builds: Day Twelve
At long last, the finale of the Twelve Days of Breathtaking Builds: A very special bike that slid just under the 2015 wire. Like Day 11, this Baum Corretto will be getting a special feature all its own, but we were too excited about it to keep it under wraps...
December 24, 2016
The Twelve Days of Breathtaking Builds: Day Eleven - A Modernist's Pegoretti
Dario Pegoretti's repeated homage to other artists - visual or otherwise - is a well-documented trait of his framebuilding craft. While oftentimes we'll be the first to admit that his far-off references can sometimes cruise over our slightly uncultured heads, there is no mistaking Day Eleven of the Twelve Days...
December 23, 2016
The Twelve Days of Breathtaking Builds: Day Ten
DAY TEN: Colorado X Canada Crimson Collab When Canada comes calling, Mosaic answers. The finest titanium in America dances north to the border at VeloColour for a stunning crimson paint job in a scheme apropos of our Maple Leaf-addled raconteur partners. This is the Boulder-based builder's flagship Mosaic RT-1 road...
December 22, 2016
The Twelve Days of Breathtaking Builds: Day Nine
DAY EIGHT: THE ESSENCE OF LIGHTNESS Once upon a time, we were teenagers obsessed with knobby tires and mountain bikes. It was the era of Ned "The Lung" Overend, anodized CNC parts, and ceramic rims. Weight was always the point, with little quarter given to anything else. 1.8" tires with...
December 21, 2016
The Twelve Days of Breathtaking Builds: Day Eight
DAY EIGHT: THE WANDERING MARINER The rhythm of the pounding sea rocked the massive boat, enveloped by the enormity of the Pacific Ocean in the pitch of night. The 141,000-ton ship was in the midst of a six-week transit from Singapore, and one of its engineers was in his bunk,...
December 20, 2016
The Twelve Days of Breathtaking Builds: Day Seven
The Quintessential Mosaic Up until this point, the Twelve Days has been a celebration of bright, occasionally bombastic, and always beautiful paintwork. Day Seven's bike is a marked departure from the theme, an ode to clean, brutal minimalism, absolutely devoid of pigment. It's a classic raw titanium firestarter: Mosaic's RT-1....
December 19, 2016
The Twelve Days of Breathtaking Builds: Day Six
DAY SIX: BRITISH RACING GREEN GETS DIRTY Baum Cycles, as a builder, is known primarily for their road bikes, and we're more than okay with that. Little known fact? They also build a stunning mountain bike, the Extensa. The singletrack-going sibling to the Corretto, every so often we get the...
December 18, 2016
The Twelve Days of Breathtaking Builds: Day Five
DAY FIVE: THE CLASSIC CORRETTO What can we say about the Baum Corretto that we haven't already said? At the end of the day, after all is said and done (and, as they say, variety is the spice of life), they remain our favorite road bicycles. Lately, we've been accused...
December 16, 2016
The Twelve Days of Breathtaking Builds: Day Three
DAY THREE: THE MULTICOLORED MOSAIC Today's Breathtaking Build has a roundabout kind of story. This bike was never supposed to exist. Originally, this bike was a Mosaic GS-1, built with one specific purpose in mind, above all others: The infamous, brutal, and equally breathtaking Dirty Kanza, the mother of all...
December 15, 2016
The Twelve Days of Breathtaking Builds: Day Two
DAY TWO: THE BLACK PEARL Day Two's offering to the gods of the Twelve Days of Breathtaking Builds, a monochromatic Baum Corretto. It's made of titanium, mined from one of the world's few Ti ore producers in China or the former Soviet Union, then processed into tubing in the United...
December 14, 2016
The Twelve Days of Breathtaking Builds: Day One
It's that time of year again. A wonderful time, when instead of force-feeding you a non-stop avalanche of holiday deals and marketing blitzes like any normal cycling retailer should, we spend twelve days foisting what we're good at on the world. Yes, this is the 2016 edition of the Twelve...
