Siding

Salsa sale

20% off all in-stock 2013 Salsa bicycles

 

vayas, fargos, horsetheifs, colossal, warbirds, el mariachi. Come and get them while they're hot.

 

Carole's Santa Cruz Carbon Bronson

Another sweet SC 27.5 build. 

Rain fly

New storage

Whaley wins

Congratulations on the masters win at pierres hole !!!  We're proud of you marland.

Granite

Ball buster

Richard & rock creek

Bales

Elchucho

Now you don't

Now you see it

good reading

http://daisyalpha.blogspot.com.au/

Early bird motivation

Today

Willow mountain

Pano of the sapphires

Palisades

Rob...at the top

May creek

Shuttle

Hitching a ride in one of those green trucks

Elk creek

Dan on board of the trail clearing machine.

Sc tallboy ltc

Lights

Alpino

Palisades

Rob...at the top

Grind

Willow mountain

Pano of the sapphires

Sink

Concrete and all of 400 #, cant wait to run water through it.

Progress

Progress

New phone....new camera

Lost horse

Randall at the lost horse cabin.

Lost horse

Great year for bear grass!

Lost horse

Dirt road grinder with randall

SC Butcher

 

Santa Cruz's 650b...." The Butcher "

$3500 as shown

Felt Rail

 

if you're after a cruiser, the Felt Rail 29er at $500 wouldn't be a bad option

2014 Rock Shox Pike

 

here's the new and purdy RS Pike w/ 160mm travel for 650b...get yours right here.

shake down

 

camas lake trail....rocks, dings, scratches....oh my. She's not new any longer and without a doubt, mission accomplished. Race bike with an attitude.

Alpine

Ventana's new Alpino model based around 650b wheels.

this one is my personal bike built on the lighter weight side of things. Final build weight came out to 26.5# as pictured. It's the Butte 100 bike for me this year and I wanted something fun yet still light enough to get me over the 15,000 ft of climbing. So when ventana announced the release of a new "light weight" 650b with shortish travel I was all over it. I personally really like the feel of the very active single pivot design....traction is a premium and typically ventana's are super stiff when leaning into them while cornering hard. I like bikes like this.

 



so.....to enhance the build we focused on a light and wide set of wheels. In this case, the new Industry Nine Torch hubs (240g rear, 126 front) and laced these to a set of Pacenti TL28's (390g) and finishing them off with Dt Swiss Supercomp spokes and aluminum nips.

 

On top of this we rounded out the build with some parts from companies that we really like....Sram X0 derailleurs, Shimano XTR trail brakes, Chromag handlebar, saddle, and grips.

 

 

i'm thinking this years hundy is going to be about as fun as it could possibly get. From the perspective of a Butte 100 rider and hopeful finisher.

1984 was so rad

Now you can own a piece of it with this super rad ross 10spd diamond cruiser......$150

Calf creek riding nice

Yesterday was one of those rare midweek double dip mountain bike sort of days. First, a sweet ride with my wife and pal jenny over at calf creek where we sampled some fantastic soil. Tacky after a couple days worth of rain...and then a quick snack and back out the door to ride with the fellas on one of my bitterroot favorites, weasel creek which didn't disappoint. If you like tech, look it up and sample it for yourself as weasel is riding sweet right now. Get out there.....double dip.

early 60' Hawthorne

our ace mechanic Brian putting $500 worth of attention to a $150 bike. And best of all.....the $650 bike turned out super sweet.

 

Water break

Rock creek

Switchbacks...helena

Wed night

A switchback ruuns through it