Urban Velo: A Bicycle Framebuilding Crash Course
January 8th, 2012
Urban Velo did a nice writeup of a framebuilding course taught by Mike Flanigan of Alternative Needs Transportation a.k.a. ANT.
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Peacock Groove
December 13th, 2011Deep Custom from RoyalAntler on Vimeo.
Condor Paris
November 23rd, 2011A nice find shared by my buddy Ely over at Ruth Works SF.
Condor Paris from Condor Cycles on Vimeo.
2011 Death Valley Double Century
November 3rd, 2011
This past weekend I rode the Death Valley Double Century and completed my first California Triple Crown. It was a pretty exhausting weekend (Fri-Sun) with over 1,000 miles driven and 195 miles on the bike. We were really fortunate to have highs in the mid-80s and, aside from one 25 miles stretch, favorable wind conditions.
The course was really exposed to the sun and wind since there is very little vegetation. And a majority of the roads are straight. It was really interesting to ride in a straight line seeing your next destination miles and miles ahead. Additionally, the climbs were very gradual with most of it coming in under 5%. There was a stretch of around 20 miles where it seemed the gradient was less than 2%.
On the drive down, we joked that we would be sick of the landscape come the following day. It turns out though that the views are always good from a bicycle.
Oh, and we burned through the course in under 13 hours. Super stoked about that!
