February 13, 2013
Julian Training Camp
AC TEAM CAMP Presenting Above Category’s first-ever training camp experience: Our take on what a North American pro team camp should be – and more importantly, where it should be. JULIAN The contiguous United States is a difficult place for a training camps for cyclists in the earlier parts of...
November 17, 2012
Baum Corretto Featured In Bicycling Magazine
We are happy to announce that we recently had a great write up in the December 2012 issue of Bicycling which covered the Baum Corretto (in the below photograph) that we built for Joe Lindsey. Unfortunately the article was limited in how long it could be so Joe didn’t have...
June 14, 2012
Blast from the past
Don’t remember the exact year that Above Category Jr. Racer Spence Peterson won the Jr. National Championship XC title, but we do know that 26″ bikes still outnumbered 29ers, Spence didn’t drive and wasn’t thinking too hard about what University to attend. Most racing mountain bikes still had three chainrings,...
February 13, 2012
Save the date, Baum at AC!
On Wednesday, February 29th at 6:30 pm Above Category will be hosting Darren Baum, founder of Baum Cycles all the way from Geelong, Australia! Baum Cycles is fast becoming known for building some of the highest performing bicycles in the world. His company’s steel and titanium frames are meticulous, beautiful...
January 04, 2012
Picture Of The Week
Starting 2012 out right! Great morning ride with some easy intervals on the top of Tam. This picture was taken about 10 miles from the shop with all but one of those miles climbing. Just another reminder that we are living in cycling paradise here!
January 03, 2012
Picture of the week
Starting 2012 out right! Great morning ride with some easy intervals on the top of Tam. This picture was taken about 10 miles from the shop with all but one of those miles climbing. Just another reminder that we are living in cycling paradise here!
December 26, 2011
Picture of the week; the Goomah
High above the Pacific on the latest bike out of Ticino. Much more to come on this rig in the following weeks…
December 12, 2011
Picture of the week: The joy of early morning rides
Three quarters the way up Mt. Tam at ~7am…
December 11, 2011
Bike of the week: Parlee Z5 in Candy Blue
This is our latest Parlee Z5 builds which included a custom candy blue paint. With a SRAM Red build, Power Tap/Enve wheels (clincher), Zipp SC Bars, stem and post, Arundel cages and Fizik saddle and tape it weighs in at 14.7lbs. The Parlee Z5 has nice twin seat stays...
October 25, 2011
Baum Ristretto Part III, the ride.
In yesterdays post we covered the Baum Ristretto frame set and went into a little detail on the build. Today we’ll go into more detail on the build and since we have well over a thousand miles on the bike will talk a bit about the ride. Enjoy! Back from...
October 24, 2011
Building a Baum Part II, the Ristretto.
The day has finally come, it’s been a long trip from Australia. Hopefully the frames have been packed well… Both the Ristretto and the Corretto were perfectly packed and then all work stopped in the shop as we unpacked and oogled them. The frameset as it comes from Baum. Frame,...
