New Surly stuff

Another break away

After Joe built his touring bike and rode it in Europe this past Summer our buddy Roper decided he needed one just like it. So Joe came up with an even simpler and easier to make design and it is looking something like this...

WE'll be showing this in Denver this weekend at RMBS along with Stu's new 650b hardtail, the Staion Wagon, and another bike we haven't decided on yet. Guess we better decide soon! We leave on Thursday!

Press from RMBS

Caught these links to the recent Rocky Mountain Bike Show that we attended.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/features/on-show-rocky-mountain-bicycle-show-part-1

http://www.velonews.com/article/97024

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Next stop Salida

Courage cool dropout

Erikson Ti seatpost

650b All Road coolness

Form Cycles = look fast!

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Love me some fat tires!

Electric cargo bike

Goes 20mph! Has a throttle on the handlebars with a 20mile range.

Day Two

Shows about to start. I think we are ready. It's nice and mellow here
with a decent turn out. Feels like this event will get better and
bigger every year.

RMBS or bust!

Finishing touches

Almost ready to roll to Denver...

Flatbed rack

Here is Stu finishing up a flatbed rack for one of our local customers.

More pics of Joe's bike

Joe's Break Away Touring Bike

Ready for a two week tour in Czech Republic this month.  Hopefully it will get on the plane without braking the bank!

Trailers!

My buddy Adam and I headed out to ride in the Gila National Forest over the holiday weekend and here is the GPS data I brought back. We did this on fully loaded off road touring bikes and had an amazing time!!

Photos are posted in the gallery as well:

Mogollon Mtns Bike Tour

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Phogsley: ruler of Baja

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This bike was perfect for the sand and water crossings of the Baja Sierra's!

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New Hotness!

Check out our newest creation for Pete "Kit Shindagger" Miers... A
sick two tone 29'er with Paragon stainless sliding dropouts. Badass!

In other news, Joe and I just returned home from a 4 day bike tour around Roosevelt Lake in the Tonto NF. We had big climbs, beautiful scenery, and great friends- Annie, Eric, and Roper along with us. I'll post a coupe pics as soon as I remember to bring my camera to work.

Next in the jig: a 29'er touring bike for Captain Balljack and a new custom rig for Joe's buddy Jay in Tucson.

Have to give a big thanks to Handlebar Sandwich for telling folks about Sendero in his blog and helping us make t-shirts to sell. Thanks!

If any of you readers want a shirt send $10 (local pickup) or $15 (mail out of town) to sales@senderocycles.com by PayPal. We have men's M or L t's in charcoal. We'll get ladies shirts as soon as someone can tell me which shirts to buy! Hint!

K. I'm out. Have a great weekend!

~John

Are you ready San Diego?

We made it here in 8 hours on the dot and were done with set up in 45
minutes! Here's Stuie doing a little dance in the booth.

Are you ready San Diego?

We made it here in 8 hours on the nose. Bikes and racks are on
display. Let's do this!

12-pack rack

The new rack and bag are ready for the show this weekend in San Diego.
The bag is made from material recycled from dry bags used on the
Colorado river in the Grand Canyon. We will have 2-3 of these bags for
sale in our booth for $60. Rack can be ordered anytime but you'll have
to email us for a price. :)

Final steps

Here's Joe putting a cable stop on Dr. J's new townie.

San Diego Bike Show Prep

It's getting down to crunch time and we are busy getting frames ready
for powdercoat on Monday, building a cool front "12 pack" cargo rack,
and styling out our sign. It's a pretty exciting and nerve racking
time for us!

Here is a pic of the rack in progress...

Foot pegs anyone?

Here is a shot of Joe brazing on a set of foot pegs to JP Runnings
"station wagon" bike.

In The Jig:

Two frames currently in production: 26" SS MTB with curved seat stays (bottom) and a 26" 'Station Wagon' (top).  We'll be taking the lower bike to the San Diego Custom Bike show next week as well.  ~jb

 

Back in Flag

Well it was a sweet trip!  We arrived back in Flag around 9pm Monday completely unscathed!  Though a bit tired.  I'll have photos up soon and maybe even a recap of the whole trip from Scott Miller so stay tuned.  In the meantime here are a couple of pics... ~jb

Bahia concepcion

We are some tired hombres now on day 4. We finished the dirt portion
of the tour today at just about 210 miles. And just got done eating
hamburguesas, drinking lots of beer, and making camp in a sandy spot
across from the restaurant. Where else but Mexico can you do that?

The roads here are amazingly awful to ride a bike on. Between
washboard, sand, baby heads, and brutally steep pitches (many with
concrete pavement to help trucks get up them) we are all pretty much
crushed. But tomorrow we play in the bay and relax drinking Ballena's
and making jokes about how sore our butts are!

On Saturday we will start makng our way North to Mulege and then catch
a bus back to Santa Rosalia and the ferry back to Guayamas on Sunday.

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We finally started riding

We made it to Santa Rosalia last night after a 15 hour delay at the
ferry on Saturday night. The boat developed a problem with it's
starter compressor so we ended up sleeping at the dock ok the sidewalk
after they tried to fix it until 2:30am. When we finally got under
way it was 11:30am Sunday and the trip took about 9 hours... We spent
the rferry trip chattimg with some folks from Tucson and drinking
beer. We basically drank 90 beers from the time we hit Guayamas,
waiting for the ferry, riding the ferry, until dinner last night in
Santa Rosalia. The just made today all the much more interesting!

We started today with a 16 mile stretch on Highway 1 and then turned
onto a dirt road that headed into the mountains of central Baja. As I
sit here we just finished riding 45 miles in about 7.5 hours with
3,600 feet of climbing. Not all that easy for me but the Phogsley
rocked on the primarive dirt road! The big tires made the primarive
dirt and rocky road so much more manageable! Our camp tonight is at
the top of a climb so steep that we had to walk our bike at least a
half a mile. I almost fell a mber of times beacuse it was to steep to
keep my footing and push my heavy bike!! Sleeping will come very easy
tonight.

There is some good joking around and sarcastic humor happening as
well. Pete now has a couple of new nicknames: Poco Dulce, and El
Moustacio. And we keep taking turns calling each other E.K.

Tomorrow we will rode to Scorpion Bay and stay the night by the
water. I hope to have some good photos to upload from there.

The photo below is from the front of the Hotel Blanco y Negro where we
stayed last night.

Guaymas

Myself, Pete Miers, and Scott Miller left Tucson this morning for
Mexico. We are in Guaymas now waiting to take the ferry to Santa
Rosalia in Baja. It's gonna be a LoNG 10 hour ride tonight and we will
dock in the morning just after sunrise.

Here is a pic of Pete with his new moustache...

Week Recap

Hey folks!

As I am sitting here drinking beer with Ben Withey and the Gnome I
thought I would recap this week and let everyone know we are going to
the San Diego Custom Bicycle Show on April 4 & 5. We will be there
with several bikes and some custom racks as well. Keep checking back
and I will post some photos of our progress.

Hasta!

jb

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Bottle cage!

Just got the first Ti bottle cage for my 40oz. Kleen Kanteen today
from King Cage. Three mount tabs and weighs 60g!! ~ jb

Tuesday commute

Rode the Phogsley in to the shop today with a 29'er back wheel rather than the Surly tire and 26" rim.  It seems to roll a little faster even though it is heavier.  Think I will drop the drop bars at least for awhile... rock a flat bar and see how that goes.  Just don't like where the drop bar position is with this stem...  jb

Tucson weekend

Spent the weekend in Tucson with my ol' buddy Jake Rubelt and did a couple MTB rides down there.  Saturday Adam and I drove out to the 24hours of the Old Pueblo and rode the course while the race was on.  The course was in great shape and we had a blast!  SO MANY cactus out there!  The course was fast so everytime you swerved to dodge one cactus you had to juke the other direction to avoid another.  We were riding and laughing, yelling "Zing! Zah! Whoa!" the whole time.  What a crack up.

Sunday Jake took us out to the Star Pass trails out by his house and had a very similar experience.  Geez I can't believe how many sharp, pointy, stingy things there are out there!  We rode big gears trying to keep up with the Snake and it felt like we were riding in a NORBA rae at times. Man that guy can turn a pedal!  Much of the trails there are pretty technical too with sharp turns and hard climbs with decent size rock pick ups and plenty of cactus lining the sides. There were definitely times when I surprised myself by not falling into a cactus or sharp rock!  

Still it was a great time.  Traction was good and there was virtually no dust.  Temperature was perfect too with some light clouds.  It really was bitchin!

After that ride we strolled over to El Guero Canello for some fantastic Carne Asada and horchata.  Followed that up with a trip to the Tap Room at Hotel Congress for some $1.50 Schlitz cans.

Yeah.  It was a good weekend. ~jb

650b is fast!

Went for a damn fun ride at South Mountain in Phoenix last Saturday.  Decided to do it on a Ti VooDoo that I have with 650b wheels on it.  I am pretty much a die hard 29'er guy so it took me a few miles to get used to the smaller wheels.  Once I did it was pretty fun shreddin'!  

I really don't know all the trails my friend Ben Withey took us on but some of the names I remember are National, Heli pad, and Mormon.  That area is full of short power climbs and several long steep grinds.  The descents are loose with tight switchbacks and rock drops.  SO FUN!  We missed the rain by hours and after burritos and beer by the pool we headed off to watch the AZFixed.com Gold Sprints. Some 300m single speed road bike race on rollers held at a bar in Tempe. They were great to watch and my buddy Kale won the whole enchilada with a sub 15 second time and our boy Handlebar Sandwich got a smokin third place! Man those guys have fast legs!  I drank about 10 $1.25 PBR's while I yelled and screamed at the races.  The next day my throat hurt so bad!

Meanwhile back in Flag we got crazy amounts of snow and cold temps again.  Time to head out on skis a while longer...  ~jb

Mornings at the shop

Here is a pretty typical morning menu at our shop. For me and Stu at
least. Joe prefers tea and Kashi.

Monday

Just received two tube sets for Pete Miers 29'er and Jay Miers
29'ers... Those may be the biggest steel chainstays I have seen. ~jb

The bender is here!

Stu's new tubing bender is here and this is the first thing he made
with it. The man is so stoked to have this!

With it we will be making custom commuter and touring racks, handle
bars, and even parts for bike trailers!

It all happening now ~ jb

As real as it gets

We are off an running!  With one finished (Phogsley), one being finished (Bellar's single speed), and two (JP Running and Pete Miers) in the que  we are stoked!  JP's bike should be interesting.  He says "I want a cruiser with loops for foot pegs and long chainstays.  I want it to be able to carry 14 chickens and a pig."  Not sure about the livestock but it will have the loops and some sweet curved tubes.

We decided to make plans to attend the San Diego Custom Bicycle Show on April 4th & 5th so look for us there.  We should have three bikes on display including the 'Phogsley' - a fat-touring bike built for myself.  See the photo below.  This is one monster truck of a bike.  It uses the Surly Endomorph tires for awesome flotation.  For this we used a 100mm bb shell and 150mm rear spacing.  Joe picked out some HUGE oversized butted tubing to keep it stiff but not too heavy.  So far the bike is everything I dreamed it would be.  I'm not totally sold on the dirt drops, but now that Stu has his tubing bender I may opt for some sick custom Ti bars of my own design....  the only word for that is - Bitchin.  ~jb

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