Chromag

Chromag bicycle parts are now available from your fine friends at the Red Barn

Products currently available:

Fubar OSX handlebars with25mm rise, 760 width, 8d bend and 5d upsweep

Fubar OS handlebar with 30mm rise, 710mm width, 7d bend and 5d upsweep

CNC'd Ranger stem in 90 or 70mm lengths (195 g for 90mm size)

Perforated leather saddles

Qucik release mechanisms with either aluminum or brass lever

kirks got'a new fork

the captain says he likes his new Ventana bottle opener.

Columbia Classics

Here is a fine example of a properly restored 52' Columbia Deluxe.....outfitted with all the cool trinkets of it's era, delta ray headlamps, Cadet speedo, Union expansion drum brake. Just a beautiful bike.

schwinn classics

56' Schwinn Cycletruck

Felt Racing

Here's a near matching pair of Felt B2 tri bikes that we recently built up for customers Jon and Wendy. We scrutinized everything and came up with a very solid build kit and a bike fitting aimed specifically at going fast in a straight line.

new beginnings

i've been looking forward to building up one of the new Titus Ti E.G.'s , here is the much anticipated naked canvas sitting patiently at 7.42#

i'll post a few more pics when we've got the project completed.

Canfield One

Here's a bike that we built up over the weekend for Cameron, who came down to the Bitterroot from Great Falls. This was the first time we've built up one of these bikes and i admit that i was pretty darn impressed with the quality (frame did need some prep work, but nothing past the ordinary facing & chasing of the BB shell). The ano finish looked quality and the suspension linkage looked like it could handle a little abuse....the 20mm lower pivots should fight off any inherit flex. I even managed to sneak it out of his hands to take it for a quick spin once we put the final touches to it. At a smidge shy of 30# the bike felt really quick when you stomped on the pedals which is a tough charateristic to pull off for most 7" travel bikes. The suspension felt as good as any 10minute parking lot test will allow you to check, it seemed to just float over the small bumps, almost made them entirely dissapear. I thought it pedaled pretty darn nice and i know Cameron was stoked to get it home for a spin on his local trails....i'm sure he'll be calling soon to let us know.

the One

a close up of the linkage....darn front derailleur was a little tight fitting, but we managed with a tradional clamp dual pull Shimano XT

re-inforced for large stoppers.

Griz Triathlon

Here's a pic from last weekends Griz Triathlon (i know i'm kinda late posting). Bdid and myself ran mechanical support for the 20th annual. Good times under blue skies and we even managed to find a few bikes that needed our services.

see blue tent ..... that's us.

Mike's new bike

Titus RX Carbon....

Mike was looking for a fast bike that he could use for endurance racing and came to us with a frame preference and a budget....we took care of the rest and sent Mike out of the door suited up with a super nice racer-x. First race on the new bike for Mike will be at the Leadville 100......good luck Mike and we hope you bring home one of those fancy Leadville belt buckles.

name that funk

so.....good pal and customer walks into the shop with a bike this past week and he wants to drop it off for a spring deluxe tune up (clean,lube and tune). As i'm checking the bike in something kinda catches my eye.....i point out what appears to be a large piece of flesh.....customer shrugs his shoulder and says he didn't notice it, but with one of those sheepish grins that seemed to say "good luck with that" . I put my nose to it and it certainly smelled funky and in a state of deterioration (rot is probably a more appropriate description).What is it ?? Your guess is as good as mine.

long time-no post

Welp....things have finally simmered down a bit after getting back from a nice family vacation. Most of you were aware that aaron was at the helm here at the shop while i loaded the kids in the VW as we took off on a road trip that took us through 5 different states....eventually we would spend a large potion of our time hanging out on the fine beaches of Carlsbad CA. Nice place there in Carlsbad......good mexican food at Pollo Marias, a nice place to rest our head at Seashore on the Sand (back door opened up to the surf), and a kick ass bike shop called Pacific Coast Cycles. Chuck and Gretchen who run PCC were nice enough to get me outfitted with a bike and enough details on the area to keep us fairly busy. What else do you need in a small town other than good food and bikes ? Here's a few pics:

hike in Zion

pic from Gooseberry

since we had to drive through Vegas i thought the kids would think the lights were pretty cool, so we timed to drive through on the strip at night. And indeed all three had their heads out the windows the entire time.

19 hrs of driving to Carlsbad....view from the room once we arrived.

Karate Monkey on the 101

Felt to race in the Tour

I rec'd some pretty cool info yesterday that Felt bicycles will be lining up with the best during this years 2008 tour De France. Team Slipstream/Felt coached by Jonathon Vaughters brings a talented team with recognizable names....David Millar, american David Zabriskie, Magnus Backstedt, and sprinter Julian Dean. The other rosters are unknown allthough Vaughters is hopeful to bring young US star Danny Pate. It should make for an interesting Tour this year with 2 american teams, hopefully we'll have a few americans to cheer on other than Montana's very own Levi.

Good luck in de tour Felt !!

week of pics

it's been a busy week with lots of bike repairs coming in. The feast after a winter of famine. Lots of really cool projects and a few happy new bike owners too.

Jean and his new Vassago Bandersnatch

Robert and his Felt Virtue

and here's a couple of pics of Don's super cool Masi road bike....Don wanted some new on the bar ergo shifters, easier gearing, and to get away from his old 27" tubular wheels.

my old VAR adjustable spanner helped me with the above project...one of my personal favorite tools.

and some really hot components.

road ridin'

Beautiful weekend here in the Bitterroots.....with temps in the 50's both saturday and sunday i found myself turning circles on the road bike both days. Saturday was a nice mellow three hour outting on a solo ride that took me to Darby and back via dirt/asphalt road mixture. I got an early 8:30am start that was actually almost too early as it was still a chilly 28d when i left, even had a few snowflakes falling. Since i was planning on working a few hours i figured an early start was best to get me back at a reasonable time.


The shop stayed fairly busy for a saturday afternoon and we had a few visitors come down from Missoula....mostly tire kicking. Aaron put the finishing touches to a couple of tune ups which allowed me a little time to BS with the regular customers, Thanks Aaron ! Plans were also hatched saturday afternoon that it was that time of the year to start our weekly Sunday morning road rides......so, for those of you with a road bike we'll be leaving from Kiwannis Park in town at 11AM every sunday morning until the snow melts from the trails.


Todays ride was gorgeous.....no wind at all and mid 50's felt great. 7 of us showed up and headed north to Victor via westside backroads. The pace picked up slighty just before getting there as Bender and i took off from the others. I didn't last very long at all as the cobwebs were blocking the path for oxygen (advantage Bender)....We regrouped in Victor and decided to head back to town on Eastside Hwy., Deano provided the free tow back to town and the rest of us were accepting of the fact and tucked in for the (almost) free ride.

cool bike

cool bike of the day pic....someone did an amzing job on the restoration of this older english classic and when i recieve more details on the bike i'll share them here. Thanks for sending the picture on over Jason.

in the stand

aaahhh, the flirtation of spring. Nothing like a deserving 60d day to put cycling minded folks in the mood for pedaling bicycles. The past couple of days has been exciting around here as folks are starting to stumble in from a long winter of skiing and other snow activities. We had a pair that came in today from Des Moines Iowa, and we chatted about the midwest, RAGBRAI, corn, and humidity. Nice folks for sure, but aren't most cyclists ???? They seemed to like the ol' Red Barn too as one kindly asked to take a few pics of some of the old bikes hanging around. Heck ya -Sure thing, take as many as you like.

But anyway....here's a couple of bikes currently in the stand, some minor and some major issues.

on the tuner...........Galactic ; Action Speaks Louder than Words. Good stuff.

Tylers new ride

finally rec'd some brakes that we've been patiently waiting for which allowed us to finish Tyler's new Knolly Endorphin.

ENO

ENO projects.....J Bela's new crankset

and eventually Marks new ENO hub for a singlespeed 69er project.

David's new ride

Congrats to Dave on his new 21# Ventana El Toro single speed.

a link

Brian (aka bdiddy) posted a few pictures from Portland on his Bdiddy Blog.....check'em out HERE