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 below:

June 29, 2013: 9AM @ The Boonville Fairgrouds

Don’t have a USAC license? Enjoy racing for a personal best time? Want to see some of the most majestic roads California has to offer at your own pace? Interested in having a challenging day on the bike with fantastic catered food and hard cider waiting for you at the finish?

For 2013, we are premiering  the Bite Hard Gran Fondo! This will be a TIMED event in traditional Gran Fondo style. Gran Fondo riders will relish the outstanding Mendocino Coast scenery and follow the same route as the USAC Bite Hard Road Race. The Gran Fondo will benefit the Queens English Colon Cancer Survivor fund***.

You can race for best overall time or for a personal record or just for fun!

Gran Fondo Benefits

*** Gran Fondo registrations benefit the Queens English Colon Cancer Fund

*** HARD CIDER from Bite Hard!

*** Catered Lunch by Burt at BoontBerry Market – Boonville’s local organic food store!

*** Gran Fondo T-Shirt!

*** Timed Event: Race for overall best time or a personal record or not at all!

*** $20/nt Camping at the Boonville Fairgrounds: On-Site bathrooms and showers and within walking distance to downtown shops and restaurants.

*** 15% off Best Western rooms in Ukiah – 40ish minute drive to start at Boonville Fairgrounds

*** Very inexpensive, local and awesome Coffee and Pastries from the Boonville General Store served up by the Anderson Valley Teen Center the morning of the event in the Fairgrounds parking lot – all proceeds benefit the AV Teen Center!

Course Details

The Gran Fondo will follow the same course as the USAC race, however will omit the finish hill and will finish at the intersection of highway 128 and Mountain View Road.

See course details page for more info.

RIDE STARTS AT THE BOONVILLE FAIRGROUDS PARKING LOT AT 9AM SHARP!!!!

REGISTER HERE for the Gran Fondo!!!

Course Photos

200m from the top of the KOM climb on Mountain View Rd.

Philo-Greenwood Rd.

Highway 1 just south of Elk

Elk, CA

The bridge on Philo-Greenwood Road descent into Philo for all other fields.

Highway 1 at the intersection of Mountain View Road

Philo-Greenwood Road on the Ridge

We did this race (there was no Grand Fondo event) last year and here are a few of our thoughts.  First off Booneville is a great little (blink and you’ll miss it) town and the perfect place to start and finish a big ride.  The climbing starts quick and is hard, but it’s a blessing as you are still fresh!  After all the climbing and descending at the start you can rest a bit when you reach Hwy 1.  Close to Elk  there is another little kicker before the big climb out of Elk.  Then there are a bunch of rollers until you hit Hwy 128 for an easy spin back to town, or a fast paceline if you are looking for a good time!  The route is beautiful, one of the best rides we’ve done, anywhere or ever!

The food at the finish will be excellent and much deserved after the hard ride as well.  This is a great chance to try some roads you may never have thought of before.  It’s also a short trip from Healdsburg if you wanted to stay for the weekend and is close to the start.  I promise you’ll remember this ride and it’s for a great cause as well!  Please pass this on to every one you think would be interested!

Thanks and see you on the road!

I’ve been suffering from a bit of writers block, or bloggers block if you will as I am not much of a writer (not much of a blogger as of late either)!  Normal excuses; been super busy, making changes to the business, holidays, etc…

The one excuse that I’d like to use but honestly can’t is that I’ve been riding too much.  That has suffered as of late as well.  But I’m happy to say that all of that is changing.  All those changes to the business are close to complete (in my head at least), the big winter holidays are well past us, I’m getting caught up with projects at work and I’m finally getting the miles in.  It’s not like I have not been riding at all, just not with any consistency.  A little while ago I ditched the power meter, took off the heart rate strap and unplugged from Strava.  A few weeks later and the only thing to make it back on the bike is the Garmin and Strava, that seems to be a hard habit to break, but while I’m happy to not be looking at numbers during the ride, looking at the ride a for a second time when it’s over is still too much fun.

Anyhow, to break the writers block that I opened up with I decided to post something, anything really, to get me going again.  So I thought I’d keep it easy and post a few pictures from this mornings ride and get you all up to speed on a few things that we have going on.

Starting with the above picture we have our (my) Baum Ristretto.  We’ve been testing quite a few bikes over the past few months and I am so happy to be back on what I feel is one of the best bikes I’ve ever ridden.  One of our new projects is to designate a few long term bikes that each of us here will be putting the majority of our miles on.  For me, it will be the Baum Ristretto and Corretto (when I finally get the new 9070 on it) with some time on a couple other bikes as well.  We’ll be documenting miles ridden (thanks to Strava) and any work and changes we make to the bikes and how we feel that changed the ride for the better or worse all in an attempt to help all of our customers make better, more informed decisions.  Fun times for sure…

We’ll be posting updates here as we make those changes so keep coming back to see what Tony, Peter and myself will be messing around with on the bike!

We’ve also been busy building some absolutely gorgeous bikes while I’ve been away from writing here.  I’ll be keeping busy getting the build pictures and details up over the next couple months as well.  Keep and eye out for that, there are some sweet Baums, Parlee’s, Pegoretti’s Pinarello’s and Mosaics along with a few other surprises thrown in.

Another big news worthy item is that we have a full time mechanic in now!  We’ll introduce Peter soon, but this is a big reason that I’ll have a bit more time to work on other parts of Above Category that have been neglected for the past year.  More fun stuff!

That’s it for now, the good stuff is coming up soon…

Here is a recent Pegoretti that we built for a customer in Chicago.  Highlights include a Shimano Dura-Ace group with an SRM, gold Chris King R-45 hubs (24, 20) with DT Swiss Aerolight spokes laced to Hed Belgium rims, Vittoria Open Corse clinchers, WR seatpost, Zipp bar and stem and a Fizik Kurve saddle.  Many of you may gasp when you see the Shimano components on an Italian made Pegoretti, but we don’t and it turned out quite nice especially as the grey and polished group works so well with this frame.  Not to mention that the 7900 group is one of our favorites.

Dura-Ace SRM and the beautifully working 7900 front derailleur…

Our favorite clincher tires, the gumwall Vittoria Open Corse SC’s.  Fast, smooth and comfortable if not a bit quick in how long they last.

Birds

King stainless cages, one of the best things in cycling that $17 can buy.

Fizik Kurve, this is the Bull, or Aliante version…

Nuevo classic, the Zipp bars have a great round drop but a little bit of flat top section.

Chris King 20 hole front R-45.  A work of indestructible art.

What makes a Duende different from the Marcelo?  This is it, the chain and seat stays start w/ the same diameter tubes as the Marcelo but taper towards the dropouts.

More birds, this time on a wire…

We sourced an older Reynolds Ouzo Pro for this bike.  Would have liked to clear the decals but did not have the time.  Loved this fork, strong with a nice curve to it which looks great with the smaller diameter head tube and external headset.

Details…

Nice and clean Dario!

One of the best QR’s around.  Do yourself a favor and buy a few pairs before they are gone.  You will have them forever.

24 hole Chris King R-45.  We take them apart everyday as we love looking at and admiring the internals, such precision…

As we all dream of being…

More birds, another wire.  Love, love, love…

Bike turned out great and a reminder, we can paint any Pegoretti in any of his many schemes, so weather you want a Big Leg Emma or a new Duende, we can do this paint.

We hope you enjoyed this bike and we’ll be back shortly with some more.  Let us know how we can help you build the bike you’ve always wanted!  -AC

Please note that this is an in-store sale only.  If you see something here that you are interested in, please give us a call and we’ll help you out as well.  Sale ends on Saturday, the 1st of December.  All sales on clearance items are final.

We have a small amount of our very limited order of ACR/Kamasu kits from Castelli left, come on in or give us a call to see if we have your size.  30% off

We also have a small amount of 2012 Assos Summer and Spring items looking to go.  These will not be changing for next year and this is a great opportunity to get ahead for the warm weather and get into some of the best cycling clothing made at a reduced price.  20-40% off depending on item and size.

We have a good amount of components, new to almost new going for great prices.  Cranks, cassettes, chains, saddles, everything that is 2012 or older.  Good time to stock up as well or get that upgraded crank, etc.  Up to 50% off…

We have some demo and floor bikes and frames for sale as well.  For example this Parlee Z1 which we will sell with or without components and wheels.  Most of our frames are stock, though there are a few custom examples such as this Parlee.  This one is a 54cm frame with a 56.5 top tube.  The bikes have low miles if any at all and were treated with extreme care.  Call for pricing but they will all go up to 50% off.

We’ll have lots of wheels on sale as well.  Again, anything 2012 or older will go.  We have Campagnolo Bora One’s and Ultra Two’s, Lightweight Standards, Ventoux’s and Obermayers.  Again, all have been used lightly and treated well.  They will all come w/ the standard warranty intact.  We have handbuilt wheels, rims that are ready to be built with and a new pair of Mavic Exalith tubulars on sale as well as some brand new Shimano C35 tubulars.  All wheels will be 20-40% off.

This will be a great chance to stock up on tires.  All summer tires will be marked down as such; buy one and get 10% off, two and get 20% off and three or more gets you 30% off.  This is good for tubulars and clinchers.

One of our frames for sale, this is a M/L Parlee Z5.  OK, it’s been used a bit and has some paint chips but other than that is in great shape and has less than 1000 miles on it.  This frameset will go for $2,000.00.  Retail is $4700.00 including the custom paint.  Throw a fresh paint job on it if you like and you’ll have a new bike for much less than what you can get one for now…

Again, more components, lots of stems and bars, seatposts and saddles from Moots, Fizik, Ritchey, Deda Elimenti and Zipp.  Up to 40% off.

Another one of our complete bikes.  This Dogma is built up with the same parts as seen here but has Enve 3.4 clinchers on it currently.  The bike has under 170 miles on it.  This is a 53cm 2012 Pinarello Dogma 2 in team Movistar colors.  Small touches include a custom, one-off Fizik antares in team colors.  Call us for pricing, but it will be just under 10K with Enve 3.4 clinchers…

We also have a Pinarello KOBH which has been built but never used.  These are incredible frames, for rough road and foul weather winter riding to nice summer racing and group rides as well.  Retail is $4,500 and we are selling the frameset for $3000.  It is a 57cm frame.

We have a Moots Vamoots floor bike in size 55cm.  This is a sweet bike and is built with full Campagnolo Chorus (including a rare Chorus seatpost) but different wheels than shown here.  It now has Campagnolo Record hubs built to Mavic Reflex tubular rims.  Great bike!  Call us for pricing if interested.

All of our 2012 Fizik shoes are on sale starting at 20% off.

We have a large assortment of Brooks bags which are also on sale and would make very nice gifts as well.  20% off while they last.

These Lightweight Obermayers are on sale as is the Dura-Ace 7900 SRM.  Standard rings and 170mm arms, though we can change the arms to any length.  Call for price…

O.K, this is a very rare occurrence, but we have a couple Pegoretti’s in larger sizes that we are including in the sale.  This is a 60cm Responsorium and we have a 61cm Marcelo, 56cm Responsorium in Catch the Spider and a 55cm Duende in ABVD.  The chance to buy these at 15% off ends with the sale on the last day of November.

Please note that this is a small example of what we have on sale.  Make sure to come by the showroom if you are in the area for the complete selection.  We have more frames, wheels and apparel that we want to move out to good homes so we can get a bit more of the latest!

Thanks for reading!  For any questions contact us.

Enjoy the piece and check back soon for more pictures of the build process.  Lastly, we’d like to thank Joe Lindsey and all the folks at Bicycling for making this project so enjoyable!

The following is the excerpt taken from the December 2012 issue of Bicycling Magazine and was written by Joe Lindsey.

“Darren Baum’s exquisite frame-building skill is apparent the moment you lay eyes on the Corretto and take in the beautiful GT-R paint scheme that extends hand-laid pinstriping from the frame to the stem and post. But even with its beauty, I needed a few rides to fully appreciate its way with the road.

While slugging my way up a local climb, another rider (on a Serotta Ottrott, no less) chased me down and wasted valuable breath to ask, “Who makes that bike?”

“Baum—a small handmade builder from Australia,” I replied in brief, for want of the breath required to delve into the specifics. Not that I needed to: the bike—to its rider and others—speaks for itself.

Darren Baum was a top-level roadie and dabbling framesmith in Geelong when a car accident left him with an injured spine. In recovery, he tried various geometries to compensate for the damage to his back—vacillating between steeper and slacker seat angles, gaining a deep understanding of how geometry affects handling. He opened his shop in 1996, and bases his designs on the understanding that steering comes from the interface between the rider and the saddle and pedals. These lessons helped him to craft a bike that proved to be a batshit descender.

Batshit? On one technical descent near Boulder, I regularly go as fast as 52 mph. On the Corretto, my Garmin recorded a top speed of 59 mph as the ti frame’s ride granted me incredible traction at the apex of each turn. I’ve never whipped faster through those switchbacks; not on aero bikes, not with a tailwind, not ever.

Achieving that kind of handling in a custom bike requires a leap of faith—you have to trust in both the builder’s skill with a torch, and in his ability to manipulate geometry—a rare alchemy that Baum possesses. Marin County’s Above Category shop is the U.S. ­importer. My order began with a long conversation with AC founder Chad Nordwall, after which I sent him basic measurements—my own and my bike’s.

For the Corretto (Italian for “correct”), Baum uses straight-gauge 3Al/2.5V seamless titanium tubes, which are then custom-butted to match the rider’s size, weight, and riding style. The chainstays are shaped for stiffness, coming to sharp, flattened points at the dropouts; the TIG welds feature delicate, precise scallops.

The bike is an ethereal climber, even better than its 15.3-pound weight would suggest. Low gearing helps, but the impressive blend of stiffness and comfort makes the bike a pleasure to point uphill, even when I’m not feeling my best. A great bike is not one that uses a strange fit to apologize for your balky back, or tries to disguise through technology that you don’t ride enough; it’s one that challenges and inspires you to improve. The Corretto is such a bike.—Joe Lindsey”

Price: $16,000, as tested; $7,400, frame, fork and Chris King headset

Weight: 15.3 lb.

Sizes: Custom

Frame: Butted 3Al/2.5V titanium

Fork: Enve 2.0 carbon fiber

Component Highlights: Campagnolo Super Record drivetrain and brakes; Enve Smart System 3.4 clincher wheels with DT Swiss 180 hubs, seatpost, and stem; Zipp Service Course SL handlebar; Fi’zi:k Antares saddle (recovered in Kangaroo leather by Busyman of Australia; Vittoria Corsa EVO CX tires; Busyman handmade Kangaroo Leather bar tape

If you are in the market for a Pegoretti in a 56cm this could be your lucky day.  We have access to this 56cm 2013 Pegoretti Duende in one of our favorite paint schemes.  Dario calls this particular work “Somebody” and we liked it enough that our current Big Leg Emma is painted the same way.

This Pegoretti was a show bike at Eurobike and Interbike and is the last one left.  It is equipped as seen with Campagnolo Chorus 11spd components, Campagnolo Eurus clincher wheels, Gommitalia tires and a fizik post.

The complete bike is on special for $7300 which includes everything you see here plus, we will completely rebuild the bike and have it better than new.  The only thing that unfortunately does NOT come with the bike is this very cool and very custom Fizik saddle.

“Somebody”

Give us a call or shoot us an email if interested, but do it quick as this will not last!

Last week we had the opportunity to be among a small crowd of cyclists to get a chance to ride Zipps latest wheelset, the 2o2 firecrest clincher.  We only had a week on the wheels due to the fact that there are only a few pairs in the country right now, but even during the first ride we knew we liked them and honestly wished we didn’t have to give them up.  The good news is that we won’t have to wait too long to get another pair on our bike permanently as we will be getting some of the first pairs to arrive in country in early October.

We mounted the wheels to our Baum Corretto with Continental GP4000s clinchers (inflated to 110 front and rear) and Continentals Race tubes with 42mm valve stems.  We would prefer to use Zipps own tube as it has an aluminum valve, but to our knowledge Zipp does not make a valve adapter for the 202′s yet and we think at least that the 37mm valve stem on Zipps tubes could be a little short (and wow, that’s the most thought we’ve ever put into the topic of tubes!).

Zipp says these wheels weigh in at 1375g without rim strips which is plenty light for clinchers, but these actually came in at 1340g, on our scale at least.  The total weight for the bike above was 16.13lbs as seen here, minus the bottles but with the computer and mount.

The wheels that we had on this bike before the Zipp 202′s were the very nice ENVE 3.4 clinchers.  This is not really meant to be a comparison of the two wheels since we didn’t get too much time on the Zipps but we will talk about a few of the differences.

Right off the bat I found the Zipps to be a bit stiffer than the 3.4′s even though they are not as deep.  Nailing it on a few shorter 50-100m rollers delivered zero wheel flex or brake rub w/ the same brake set-up that we had on the ENVE 3.4′s which did have some minor rub, though nothing to be too concerned with.  That being said the Zipp 202′s did have a bit rougher ride, but it was not too much by any means.  These wheels felt fast climbing for sure, and seemed to carry good speed on the flats as well.  As you’d suspect for a wheel with a 32mm rim height they were great in the high wind (which we have in spades here) which has a bit to do with the depth of the rim but even more with the shape of the rim (check out Zipps website for more information on the firecrest shape, we are believers).

Braking was great and feels a bit more powerful than the braking on the ENVE 3.4′s.  Different riders with different braking styles may like one more than the other, but both are easy to adapt to.  I was able to make the brakes squeal just a little, but I had to use the brakes in such a way that I wouldn’t do in normal use which was run down an 18% grade clamping the brakes the entire way.  This could have to do with setup as much as anything and under normal usage was totally silent.

The other change makes us very happy.  Zipp changed it’s graphics package and dropped the “Speed Weaponry” from under the Zipp logo.  It’s a small thing that makes a huge difference in cleaning up the appearance and we may not resort to just peeling the decals off altogether now, though if you wanted to you can do easily.

Again, the new graphics.  This is also available in a simpler white outline but we like the bolder graphics better, at least on the shallower wheels.  Another great thing about Zipp wheels is the external nipples which make truing the wheel so much simpler, though saying that, I don’t recall the last time we’ve really had to do so.  But again, the external nipples don’t affect aerodynamics so why make it harder?  Spokes are Sapim, from Belgium.  These are the CX-Rays, very light, very strong…

Personally, on a purely aesthetic front, I like wheels to be the same depth front and rear except for TT’s. But that’s just me…

This is the new hub with the updated 10/11spd compatible cassette body.  We are still using the 7900 Dura-Ace Di2 group on the Baum (as Shimano is not as cool as Zipp and didn’t get us any early 9000 groups, thanks guys:-)) which is 10spd so all you do is run that spacer btwn the hub and cassette.  For the 11spd group, just take off that spacer.  Easy, no wheel dishing needed.  All the SRAM/Shimano hubs from Zipp will come this way for 2013.

Speaking of the hubs, they have served us well this year.  Very durable and very smooth while being super easy to adjust and maintain if needed.  The hubs, like the rims are handmade in Indianapolis while the bearings are from Switzerland.

We’ll have more information on the durability of these wheels when we have a chance to get more miles on them, but if they are anything like the 303 and 404 clinchers we are not too worried that they will be anything but strong.  But overall, after some riding I can say that these will be my go to wheels when I run clinchers next year.

We’ve got only three sets left coming in Early October that are not spoken for.  So if you are looking to get on some of the best riding low profile clinchers for the last good riding of the year let us know and we’ll set aside a pair for you!

Thanks for reading!

Our latest Baum build is this Cubano in a straight forward but still eye catching black and white paint scheme.  Baum calls this the GTB scheme in their GT line and is shown with their new GT head badge.  All frames ship with a fork and Chris King or Tune headset as well.  Options include a custom painted stem and post to finish it off.

There are two options for the fork as well, either an Enve or 3T fork.  In this case Darren Baum wanted to use the 3T as he wanted to go with the 53mm rake fork which is not an option with Enve.  This was due to the size of the frame and geometry used.  The paint is as meticulous as ever and is one of the key features of the Baum frames…

One thing to note with this bike (and a very large number of bikes we build for cyclists all over the world) is that everything was done over the phone or email as Curt is not from the Bay area.  But as you’ll see in the following pictures the bike came out perfectly down to the spacers under the stem, stem length, and even the saddle rails being centered on the seat post.  This comes down to clear communication between the cyclist and us and then us to the guys and girls in Australia.  Every last detail is taken into account and the end result is simple; having a great ride on a bike that fits like a glove, weather it’s a stock size or completely custom.

The seat tube…

The dropouts on the Cubano are not quite as beefy as on the Corretto and also do not receive the custom butting that the Corretto does.  But they are still quite over sized and feature the scalloped ends where the stays meet the dropouts.

Low key…

Attention to detail.  The bottom bracket uses only the amount of threads needed and then is machined to be as light as possible.  Also, the chasing and facing is second to none in fit and finish.

The Baum Cubano titanium dropout up close…

Perfect fit for the Campagnolo Rear Derailleur.

The best way to deliver a bike is in person of course and Curt made the trip up to pick it up and do the initial ride on the Cubano with us.  We took him on a course that would have all terrain features so he could really test the bike and see what it could do.  This is also a great opportunity for us to fine tune all the adjustments and make sure it’s working perfectly after the shake down.

We may be biased but we believe that our neck of the woods offers some of the best riding in the world so a trip to Marin to pick up your bike is the perfect excuse for a mini holiday and a chance to get in some amazing riding!

Had to stop for a few photos high above Muir Beach.

This Cubano was built with a Campagnolo Record group except for the Chorus front derailleur, chain and cassette.  Bar, stem and post are all the Zipp SC in aluminum.  Saddle and tape are from Fizik, tires are Continental Sprinters and the wheels are Zipp 303 tubulars.  All in, with the King titanium cages and Dura-Ace pedals the bike weighed 15.4lbs.

The Zipp SC parts worked perfectly with the finish of the frame and are some of the best parts out there today.

After leaving Muir Beach overlook and past Stinson Beach we turn off of Hwy 1 and head up the 7K climb of BoFax and then hit the 7 Sisters.  This is the first sister and is where the fog started getting really thick…

And around here, where there is fog there is usually rain, or at the least really wet roads.

Somewhere on the Ridge…

The Baum Cubano at the bottom of Sister #6

Ran into Chad (a different Chad) towards the top sporting a vintage AC jersey…

This is a shot from Curt’s second ride on the Baum Cubano which is about as opposite as you can get from the first, at least weather-wise…

This was a great bike to build, starting from “what the heck should I get” to what you see here.  The entire process took about 10 weeks from start to first ride and all involved had a blast.  Looking forward to making this more of a trend and hoping that everyone we build a bike for in the future can get out here and experience it like this.

For any more information on getting a bike like this, or completely different, give us a shout!

Our latest Moots build was this sleek Vamoots in raw titanium with enough polish and etching to let you know what it is.  That is of course if you missed the telltale super precise Moots craftsmanship and Breezer dropouts…

3T Ergonova LTD bars wrapped in Fizik microtex.

3T Dorico LTD post works well with the Moots frame and is very durable while being super light.  Topped off with a Fizik Tri2 saddle.

Polished Moots inside an etched panel.

Moots Vamoots.  This is the Moots made for a bit longer distance with a premium on comfort.  A tad longer chain stays, and head tube with a bit slacker geometry.

Wonder where this cyclist is from?

We used a mix of Campagnolo for this bike.  Put the really good stuff where it makes a difference and put the more economical parts where there is higher wear and more frequent replacement.  Starts off with the Campagnolo Chorus chain instead of the Record version.

Campagnolo Chorus Front Derailleur as well.  At only 1g heavier than the Super Record version it makes sense, plus the front derailleur plate is aluminum and doesn’t peel like the clear coat has a tendency to do on the Record and Super Record models.

Well, if you are going to have a power meter, this is the way to do it.  Campagnolo SRM.

Campagnolo Super Record Rear Derailleur.  Lighter, way tricker looking, titanium bolts and ceramic bearings, just a few reasons why this is our favorite rear derailleur.

Chorus 12X27 Cassette.  About $300 less than the Super Record cassette and a bit longer lasting is why we went this route.  This way the cyclist can get 2 cassettes for the price of one and have a 12X29 for when the road really goes up and for a long ways…

Carbon hub shell and ceramic bearings on this Campagnolo Shamal TUBULAR wheelset.  Not too many of these out on the local rides but one of our favorite aluminum wheels ever.  Right now we have some 22mm Continental Sprinters mounted, but come fall we’ll break out the 25mm Continental Competitions.

King titanium cages and a bit more polish.

And again, more polish…

Enve 2.0 fork with a 45 degree rake and a custom finish.  Chris king headset rounds it out.

3T ARX Team stem and the other half of the Chris King headset.

Campagnolo Super Record for the stoppers.  Can’t resist the titanium bolts and they are not much more than the Record version…

Rounding out the build we selected the Campagnolo Record Ergo Levers.

The end result.  This bike is intended for the long road rides and less than perfect road conditions that are common out in the middle of nowhere.  Again, during the fall and winter months we’ll see some wider tubulars on these Campagnolo Shamal wheels.

Thanks for reading!

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, BKW was a still a blog and we had just opened our new showroom.  Oh, and how many carbon Landshark XC bikes have you seen out there?