June 11, 2015
Bike of The Week: Derek's Mosaic RT-1 Disc
A few months back I wrote a report on my trip to Louisiana to race the grueling Rouge Roubaix with team Mosaic. Back then I spoke briefly about my bike for the race but now that I’ve put over a thousand miles on it and refined the details of the...
June 02, 2015
No Gifts: Justifying the SRM PC8
As the saying goes, there are no gifts in cycling. It’s a sport that demands your full attention and commitment to be even marginally good at. Aside from the heavy workload on the bike itself, every other aspect of your life will start to be affected when you’re training, including...
May 19, 2015
BOTW: From The Ground Up
One of the most enjoyable things we get to do here is designing a bike from the ground up. Taking the critical information from the customer like height, weight, fit, riding style, aesthetic leanings, etc. and turning that into a complete package. For sure you have to trust the fact...
May 04, 2015
The Belgian Waffle Ride
Masochist (n) [mas-uh-kist]: a person who is gratified by pain, degradation, etc., that is self-imposed or imposed by others. I feel like that word gets thrown around quite a bit in cycling. If you think about it, it works; we’ve all at one point been riding to the point of...
April 23, 2015
Meet Your Maker! Aaron Barcheck of Mosaic Cycles
If you know Above Category, in all likelihood you know about Mosaic’s incredible steel and titanium custom bikes that we’ve had on our walls and been riding since January of 2013. You’ve read about Derek’s Louisiana adventure on his new Mosaic RT-1, all our ride reviews and seen some incredible...
April 10, 2015
Review: Q36.5 Cycling Socks
Socks are one of those pieces of cycling kit that normally don’t warrant a lot of thought for most of us, especially when compared to their flashier cousins of shorts, jersey, vest and even the helmet and sunglasses combo. That is until you’ve had a truly great pair of socks...
April 08, 2015
Quick test report, Shimano C24 tubular wheels
If you've been following us for a while you will know that we ride a lot of different bikes. Even more than that we ride a lot more wheels and other parts on those bikes. One thing we'd really like to do a lot more of (time permitting) is write...
April 01, 2015
Rouge Roubaix
105 miles, rowdy gravel sections, two cramp inducing climbs maxing out at over 15%, and the famed southern humidity. That's what I had to look forward to when I took to the line of the Rouge Roubaix road race in St. Francisville, Louisiana. Not only would this be one of...
March 29, 2015
BOTW: Rhett's Argonaut
We've only been working with Argonaut Cycles out of Bend Oregon for a few months now so we really haven't had much to show up to now seeing how build time is 8-10 weeks currently. But the frames are slowly starting to trickle in starting with this one. If you...
March 11, 2015
Bicycling Magazine's Q36.5 L1 Salopette Bibshort Review
We are really excited about this weeks 'Products We Love'...and not just because it is about one of our favorite all time products in the Q36.5 Salopette L1 Essential Bib. What we're most excited about is that this review has been written by Joe Lindsey of Bicycling Magazine.
March 04, 2015
BOTW: A John Player Special inspired Baum Corretto
This week we get to show off this Baum Corretto in black and gold. The colors are based on one of our favorite Formula One cars, the Lotus 72D. While Lotus at that time were known for pushing the boundaries of performance and weight reduction taking a driver with as...
