SsCxWc Philly: Friday Night, Bandit Cross!

Born from the cold heart of Minnesota, All-City Cycles and Bicycle Revolutions present Bandit Cross Philly to help kick off the SSCXWC13!

Details HERE

Bike Jerks/All-City: Bandit Cross, Ruining It For Everybody!

 Our favorite bike jerks have released the Bandit Cross movie in its entirety. This is what I love about "Cross Racing"...

Bandit Cross: Ruining It For Everybody from Quality Bicycle Products on Vimeo.

All-City Space Horse: A gentleman's cruiser.

Put this All-City Space horse together for my friend Jon. Born from the ashes of his San Jose single speed, and turned into a 1x8 with some nice shiny bits. Thanks Jon!

Macho Man, maiden voyage!

Hills, dirt, and gravel were on the menu this morning.

All-City Macho Man!

I've got macho madness! Here's a preview, more to come...

Hell of Hunterdon: The Aftermath...

What a day, imagine hell freezing over, that's what last Saturday was. I was shattered and my bike was so clumped up with mud and gravel it's a miracle we even finished. Can't wait to do it again next year... Seriously!

All-City Mr Pink Complete Bikes Have Arrived!

Absolutely LOVE mine! You should come by and check them out. Columbus Zona tubing and Shimano 105 drivetrain for $1875. More info here.

All City: Macho Man!

Sneak Peek...

All-City Nature Boy (Zona) Snow Day!

Quick ride this morning in the fresh snow. Best time in the city when it is soft, white and quiet.
Then it started to sleet and freezing rain, getting slippery out there. Put those knobbies on!

Holiday lovin' from All-City!

Thank you Jeffey!

Mr Pink, collecting miles!

I've managed to get out a few times on the new Mr Pink from my friends at All-City Cycles. She rides like a dream, definitely in love!

Mr Pink has landed!

I managed to get my hands on one of the Mr Pink sample framesets a little early. Just so happened to be my size. The rest of the frames should be arriving in a couple if weeks and completes to follow in march. Looking forward to sunny weather this weekend and some miles on this bad boy.
Thanks Jeffey!

All City: Nature Boy Zona Framesets Are Here!

My New Ride: All-City ZONA Nature Boy Prototype!

Now that I am starting to get settled in, and catching up on projects, I had some time this week to work on a little something for myself.

A few months ago I had received a special delivery from my good friends at All-City Cycles. It was a prototype Nature Boy frameset, made with Columbus Zona steel tubing. Something a little lighter and facier than the standard NB frameset that I wiped out on during the Bilenky Junkyard race and broke myself...

I decided to start from scratch with this build and do something a little fancier than with my previous NB build.

I managed to get out for a quick (windy) ride on it today, and did get it good and dirty. More to come about this as I get some more miles on it, but for now enjoy some pics of the fresh build.

All-City Two-Six Fixed Prototype

Jeff from All-City was looking for a TALL rider to test their new LARGE 26" fixed gear frame. And our good friend Drew was just the man for the job. Designed as a trick specific fixed gear frame with a Mid bottom bracket and 14mm rear dropouts, this thing is a monster.

Drew has already been putting it to the test, not sure who is winning yet him or the bike, but it sounds like they are having some fun. This is still a prototype, so look for more news to come at the All-City Blog.

Oh Yeah, Drew's Build:

Hubs: 36h All City 14mm rear, 36h 3/8" front

Rims: Sun Ringle MTX 33

Spokes: 14g lace three cross.

Tires: Geax Tattoo 2.3"

Headset: Stolen

Stem: Spank "Tweet Tweet" 48mm

Bars: S&M 5" cruiser bars

Grips: ODI "Longnecks"

Saddle: Charge "Bucket"

Seat post: Race Face "Evolve DH"

Bottom Bracket: Action

Cranks: Demolition "Medials" 165mm

Chain ring: Profile Splined 36t

Chain: KMC "Kool"

Seat Binder: Problem Solvers

Pedals: Premium PC's

Foot Retention: ReLoad Lock Downs

Pegs: Eclat "Slot Machines (3")

Ian Au Naturale! (Ian and his Nature Boy you pervs!)

Our beloved Ian has been getting in touch with nature, the All-City Nature Boy to be more precise. Making a few changes to the cockpit and a recent upgrade to the crankset, and he is loving it.

Here he is rockin' out in the mud at the Hillbilly Hustle a couple of weeks ago. Check out more pics at Cycling Captured.

All-City Prototype Track Cranks

Finally getting into my photos from Interbike. Jeffey let me check out these proto-cranks. Looking pretty beefcake! Good to see the kids at All-City moving on some new products, stepping up their game a bit.

Outboard bottom bracket bearings, and meaty oversized spindle.

Some nice machining on the back of those arms to keep them light.

And steel, replaceable pedal inserts.
Can't wait to see some production, get to work Jeff!

New Wheels For My Big Block!

Posted my initial build for this back in August, finally got around to building the proper wheels for it this week. Jeffey from All-City got me some New Sheriff hubs, and I laced em up to the Velo-Orange PBP rims.

I had some fun with the front wheel, lacing it three leading/ three trailing (36h)

And a nice traditional three cross for the rear. Bike is all "finished" now, some fresh New-Xpress tires (700c x 28mm) in the new Green/Skin color.

Ready for the House Party Cat 3D, maybe...

My All-City Big Block

I always try to build up new frames to ride so that I can give real feedback and show some of non-stock options for custom builds. The All-City Big Block was long overdue for some miles.

I got this one built up just in time for the Rocky 8 race and figured it would be a perfect road test for this street machine.

Choosing some new but classically designed components and using some old faithful wheels to get it rolling.

The IRD Defiant crankset is a perfect nod to the Campy Nuovo Record Pista cranks, solid clean and simple at an affordable price ($160). For comfort and convenience I went with the Eastern PC platform pedal with some RE Load Lockdown Jawns. The Thickslick ($30) tire is by Freedom, WTB's new urban brand, which proved to be a great tire for the day. Great traction and super puncture and pinch resistance.

The Selle Italia Turbo saddle ($60) was super comfy and durable despite all of the rain and thrashing throughout the day. The Velo-Orange seatpost looks great and provides a bit more set back to get you over the back wheel a little more for power in the saddle.

Keeping in the theme of shiny new parts I have the Velo-Orange sealed bearing headset, VO 17 degree Stem and Cromo Deda Velocita handlebars.

The bike is a perfect urban fixed gear with enough versatility to keep you rolling through the winter on some cross tires as well as racing all summer at the velodrome.

I am going to be lacing up some new wheels just for this bike as I have already swapped these onto my new All-City Nature Boy. All-City New Sheriff hubs to Velo-Orange PBP rims, all shiny and silver, I will definitely get some more pics up as soon as I get them done, in my spare time...

Hey Minneapolis, The 5th All-City Championship!

Thinking about heading out to the twin cities for this one. I have been a half a dozen times, mostly in February, the weather promises to be amazing in August.

Check out the details HERE