the DH set

the premium set of wheels for your DH bike.....

 

Mavic EX823

Hadley SDH w/72 pts of engagement and titanium freehub

Sapim CX Ray spokes

brass nipples

 

call for pricing

The anonymous photo

Trail scout

Trail scouting

Off off buttercup.....new decent option.

Trail scout

moonie has a new home

My old Surly Moonlander is loving life in Washinton 

Rust bomb

When the going gets tough, the tough get.........rust bomb! !!

Lugz and steel

700c wheelset

the 1500g road race wheelset

 

AC micro front hub

Dt Swiss 350 rear

SAPIM CX Ray spokes

aluminum nipples

HED Belgium C2 rims

 

 

El Mariachi ti

in the next couple weeks we'll start Jessica's sweet titanium El Mariachi.......Red Barn also has a couple of complete's heading our direction and will be on the showroom floor soon. Did i mention how much red barn loves titanium ? Come see us for your next project.

Tunin'

But mostly cleaning, my hands look like prunes.

Tunin' time.

Spring-like

shop dog stealing the thunder

Sam, get outta the way so i can take a pic of Chris's shiney new Turner

I'm seeing spots

Travis's 5 Spot w/ Float 160 and 1 X 9 drivetrain

e-Rechtors Spot

Turner 5 Spot w/ 160mm Fox Talas and 1 X 9 drivetrain

okay....just a swig-ski

Comotion tandem, rohloff, gates belt drive

Wow, cool bike.

Fat Bike Summit

  The idea was simple, get Shrekie and a few others interested in making the 6hour pilgrimage to the land of snow to ride Bicycles. I must be a good motivational speaker because in the end we had seven bitterrooters lined up to make the trip to Island Park. Sure, the motivation could have been driven by the offering of free lodging comp'd by the Red Barn checkbook....complete with hot tub, full kitchen, flat screen tv, etc. Or maybe it was the bottle of Irish Whiskey and 4 cases of beer. Regardless, it does seem like we have a fantastic cycling community here in this valley and ANY opportunity to ride bikes with good pals i'm all in and hopefully poked in the chest for being responsible for getting a crew together. Any liver damage....blame someone else please.

So, up at 3am friday morn for the red eye flight to Island Park Idaho for the 2nd Annual gathering of like minded folks.

sitting next to this guy for 6 hours is a crack-up. Shrekie in fine form.

We arrive at Sawtelle lodge by 10am just in time to say hello to a few familiar faces and then sit back and listen to the current state of affairs of fat biking. The folks at Fitzgeralds bike shop put in a serious amount of work to pull this event off, the organisation was perfect. We heard from land managers from four different agencies, had a representitive from Yellowstone sitting in, and a member of West Yellowstone's city council letting us know she'd love it IF the could host a similar event. We had a passionate Casey Greene give a talk on behalf of Adventure Cycling, one of the largest cycling organisations within the US. IMBA was also present. We also had representitives from QBP, product engineers from Salsa. It was a stacked room. And everyone was there with advocacy in mind. I think Gary Sjoquist summed it up best by saying if everyone rode bikes the world would be a perfect place. Maybe so.

how to get 5 bikes and 5 people in one rig.....it's nice to have buddies that work for U Haul

Friday afternoon was made complete by a nice ride into the evening which also gave us the opportunity to put faces to names. This guy here had a fantastic report of the weekend along with some nice photography. Later that evening a slide show from Tracey and Jay Petervary from their 1100 mile, record setting journey across the Iditarod Trail. Their trials and tribulations along this journey just blew me away. I know for a fact that i'm not tough enough for that particular ride : )  ,kudos to people like the Petervary's that like to share these amazing adventures with us all. These folks are an asset and more than eager to help.

the experts, from left to right...Joe Meiser, Tracey & Jay Petervary

The remainder of the weekend was spent riding bikes.

and in between the rides.....well, of course we owe a huge thanks to these guys:

a couple of rare sets

 

cleaned out from the back shelf at Hadley, suzanne had a couple of colors that have been sitting around for a long time. My favorite kind....equipped with current internals.

 

only one minor hiccup....20mm front and 12 X 150 on the rear, 36h

 

so most likely, a DH or FR oriented style of bike.

 

price :  $265 for the rear / $145 for the front

Blodgett

 

kinda anaerobic going into the canyon, kinda like luge coming out.

FBWS

frozen ice

 

new years eve ride....como

registration for Idaho fat tire festival

One month and counting.......make sure to register:

 

https://www.imba.com/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=269

come on, let's give montana a voice.

XX1 kits

the Sram XX1 kits are now starting to ship......this one has the Industry Nine 11 speed freehub included.

 

need a price quote on a kit too ??

 

snow

snow ride

 

Jean coming back down from Skalkaho Falls....

headset

if you had money you didn't know what to do with, i'd highly recommend one of these two jems. Why.......because, because, just f'in' because.

 

 

 

the canecreek 110 titanium with ash wood inlay

Chris King titanium

frame bag

 

Hamilton Threadworks frame bag for the Surly Moonlander

Jenn's Highball

Santacruz Highball carbon.....XL....23#

Skalkaho

The snow grooming has begun.....the conditions were great last night. Cold snow, semi packed and fast.

29er

Steve Potts in the house.....ti hardtail 29er. 2 X 8 drivetrain with the old school XT thumbies. 29 X 2.4 tires, elbows, and knees for suspension. This bike straight up rocks ! 

Como

scotch brite

got rust on your rotors ?

before

and after

 

those little green clothes are sweet, just add a little bit of water, isopropyl and elbow grease to git rid of the nasty rust accumulation OR not, and add the character. Either way.....it's purely aesthytics as the rusty rotor braked just perfectly fine.

sam

fat bike

Ventana Zues

here's the new Ventana Zues which sports the 650b wheelsize. This bike also has 150/160mm of rear travel, the new Fox Talas 27.5 160mm front fork, a Sram X0 drivetrain, Chris King bearings and TL28 hoops from Kirk Pacenti. The bike weight came in at 29.5#, head angle is 67.5d.....simply put. Built to shred.

Coffee

Great coffee too.....stop on in and try for yourself.