May 21, 2014
Campagnolo 80th Baum Corretto
We are very excited to announce a very limited edition bike that we’ve made in conjunction with Campagnolo in Italy and Baum Cycles in Australia recently. Our goal with Darren Baum was to make a special bike that brought together a few of our favorite things; the Giro de Italia,...
March 05, 2014
Worlds Fastest Travel Bike?
There are a lot of new things happening at AC; new location for the store, new website and new bikes. Here we’re going to talk about the new bikes, or Mosaic to be more specific. “New” may be a bit of an understatement as we’ve been riding and selling the...
July 31, 2013
The Yeti SB-95c
If you’ve followed Yeti’s history for the last few years, you’d have noticed that they were probably one of the last, and the most reluctant to get into the 29er category. Yeti’s theory was that they simply had to make the bike feel and handle better than a 26er before...
April 22, 2013
The Bite Hard Gran Fondo
On June 29th, our good friend and AC Team member, Jeff Malnik, will host The Bite Hard Gran Fondo, using the same amazing roads as the road race. AC would like to invite everyone to enjoy us in what is sure to be a great day on the bike. Details...
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…
