April 09, 2011
Teaser
Promised to have a blog up today, so here we go… OK, crazy day at the shop which is great of course, but was not able to post. So here is one last teaser shot in anticipation of tomorrow!
March 25, 2011
Bill's new Moots Compact CR
This is our latest Moots build for Bill B. A very straight forward and classy looking bike. But also a major workhorse with the nice stuff in the right places… Build as follows: Moots Compact CR, 55cm Enve 2.0 fork, 43mm rake Shimano Ultegra Rear Derailleur Shimano Ultegra...
February 25, 2011
Dario Pegoretti, a sneak peak at what's new...
Here just a couple shots, see how many changes you can find. Ian is flying to Austin right now and will be talking to Dario for a while tomorrow at the hand built bike show. He'll be getting all the information on what's new for these bikes and even a...
February 16, 2011
The wait has ended: Introducing Fizik shoes, at Above Category now!
In all fairness the wait really hasn't been too bad. In bike world time, it was actually pretty quick. Fizik made the major announcement that they were going to start making shoes at about Eurobike time, or at least that's when we saw some of the first pictures of them....
February 07, 2011
Parlee Z5 in Candy Apple Red
Seems like it has been Parlee month here at Above Category and in keeping with that theme, here is a Z5 that we built in December. This one also has been custom painted by Parlee in Candy Apple Red and unfortunately these pictures (taken by me, not Dean!) don't do...
February 04, 2011
Parlee Z5 w/ Custom finish
Here is the latest Parlee build we completed at Above Category. Just delivered it to San Francisco this afternoon which is a little bittersweet as we loved having it hang around the shop. It does not get old looking at these builds, whatever the manufacturer! Dean shot a few photo's...
February 02, 2011
Parlee Z3 dressed in blue
Just got this beautiful custom Parlee Z3 in from the guys in Mass. It looked amazing in the shop when we first took it out of the box, but then it just exploded when we took it out into the sunlight! Dean Bentley replicated that look in his studio for...
December 11, 2010
AC Cross team at Nationals
Congratulations to AC Jr. Spence Peterson for a solid 3rd place at Cross Nationals in Bend OR. today!
December 08, 2010
Re-birth of the Love
This is a project I'll be working on for a little while yet. This is my personal bike, a Pegoretti Love #3, in fact the first bike I ever bought from Dario almost 5 years ago. I've had this built up before, which you can read about here. When this...
December 04, 2010
Parlee Z5 in Chicory!
Here's a quick sneak peak of a Parlee Z5 we are building right now. Had to stop as we have the wrong sized spindle for the compact Cannondale SI SRM crank and also didn't get the correct length for the custom battery mount. Learn something every day here... This bike...
November 19, 2010
Sneak peak at the new AC Service Center...
Here is our excuse for the major lack of blog updates the last month. Looking back we are pretty psyched how fast we got our new Service Center built up. So, if you are local come on in and see what Ralf and Kris are working on and ask what...
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