Són les set del matí tocades.
Un cafè, una bona coca, és el que està entre nosaltres i l'inici de l'aventura.
Quan l'agulla dels quarts soni per setena vegada ja estarem pedalant, mtb, mtb, mtb.
Que bé pòder arrancar des de Verges amb la música del circuit Montalt, que bé, que bé, que bé.
L'aventura ens espera.
MTB, MTB, MTB.
diumenge, de febrer 26, 2012
Circuit Montalt.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS0J1uh57vc&feature=youtube_gdata_player
MTB, MTB, MTB.
Aquesta veu fa que el sender tingui millor to del que ja té per si mateix.
Seven Sola.
Sola de Seven, mtb, mtb, mtb.
http://forums.mtbr.com/singlespeed/where-ss-belt-drive-gallery-769904.html
Aquesta i la Titus la Eleven tenen el seu espai propi, i tant, un lloc petit, sí, però no per això menys especial, una Sola, una Seven Sola, és una de les mítiques, com ho és una Eleven, una Titus Eleven.
Mentre hi siguin tot tindrà com ara encara més sentit, mtb, mtb, mtb.
http://forums.mtbr.com/singlespeed/where-ss-belt-drive-gallery-769904.html
Aquesta i la Titus la Eleven tenen el seu espai propi, i tant, un lloc petit, sí, però no per això menys especial, una Sola, una Seven Sola, és una de les mítiques, com ho és una Eleven, una Titus Eleven.
Mentre hi siguin tot tindrà com ara encara més sentit, mtb, mtb, mtb.
dissabte, de febrer 25, 2012
Geometries.
Ahir a la mitja nit vaig finalitzar la substitució de la forquilla Vicious de 470 mm. per l'original de 438 mm.
El fet és que a la sortida d'ahir l'escalada al Montalt va ser igual de dura que l'anterior, a on cada pendent era com la darrera d'una sortida de molts quilòmetres.
La idea és que aquesta dificultat ve pel canvi de geometria pel fet de la diferència d'alçada, d'aquests tres centímetres de la primera a la segona forquilla.
Aquesta diferència de graus la fa menys escaladora. He de pensar que més baixadora, però un cop he anat sortint amb la nova forquilla de 470 mm. el fet és que no compensa portar-la, baixant no noto que sigui més fàcil encarar cap corriol de baixada, i pujant la dificultat pròpia motivada pel canvi d'angles la fa realment incòmode.
Vull dir que en les darreres sortides, després d'aquestes el pensament és, "com em costa pujar", en cap cas, "que bé que baixa".
Al dijous amb en Narcís de BO, vàrem verificar els angles de la Vicious amb la nova forquilla, i el resultat va ser el què us vaig esmentar amb anterioritat, fent referència a que cada centímetre que incrementes l'alçada de la forquilla ve a ser proper a 1º d'inclinació, és a dir si la pipa marcava amb la forquilla Vicious de 438 mm. 71,5º, ara amb la forquilla de 470 mm. marcava 68º, i pel què fa a l'angle del TT, amb la de 438 marcava 73,5º, i ara amb la de 470 mm. marcava 71º-72º.
Cal pensar que aquests angles, els de la forquilla de 470 mm. són més propis d'una bike semi-rígida de 130 mm. que no pas d'una forquilla rígida equivalent a 100 mm. pel que fa a l'equivalència de l'alçada.
El motiu és clar, la Vicious The Motivator Single Speed, aquesta unitat està pensada per a 71,5º-73,5º de pipa i TT respectivament per a una forquilla de 440 mm. no per a una forquilla de 470 mm.
Aquest fet, aquest punt és important, molt, perquè ens indica que cada bike està pensada per a una construcció específica.
Cal pensar que pujar tres centímetres l'alçada de la la pipa, implica també pujar la caixa de "pedalier", fet que fa que la bike sigui menys estable, això és el què diu la teoria, jo a la realitat no he notat aquesta manca d'estabilitat, en cap cas, i als girs que és a on s'hauria de posar en evidència aquesta manca d'estabilitat no he notat tampoc res.
Avui, aquest matí pedalant durant unes dues hores tocades, al sensació al primer minut de pujada ha estat definitiu, recuperació de les bones sensacions, de les millors sensacions, enrere han quedat les males sensacions escalant pel Montalt. De fet ahir al vespre un cop a dalt del Montalt per les males sensacions vàrem decidir girar cua i tornar cap a casa. Pel fet de que pujant no tenia bones sensacions, per no dir molt dolentes.
MTB, MTB, MTB.
El fet és que a la sortida d'ahir l'escalada al Montalt va ser igual de dura que l'anterior, a on cada pendent era com la darrera d'una sortida de molts quilòmetres.
La idea és que aquesta dificultat ve pel canvi de geometria pel fet de la diferència d'alçada, d'aquests tres centímetres de la primera a la segona forquilla.
Aquesta diferència de graus la fa menys escaladora. He de pensar que més baixadora, però un cop he anat sortint amb la nova forquilla de 470 mm. el fet és que no compensa portar-la, baixant no noto que sigui més fàcil encarar cap corriol de baixada, i pujant la dificultat pròpia motivada pel canvi d'angles la fa realment incòmode.
Vull dir que en les darreres sortides, després d'aquestes el pensament és, "com em costa pujar", en cap cas, "que bé que baixa".
Al dijous amb en Narcís de BO, vàrem verificar els angles de la Vicious amb la nova forquilla, i el resultat va ser el què us vaig esmentar amb anterioritat, fent referència a que cada centímetre que incrementes l'alçada de la forquilla ve a ser proper a 1º d'inclinació, és a dir si la pipa marcava amb la forquilla Vicious de 438 mm. 71,5º, ara amb la forquilla de 470 mm. marcava 68º, i pel què fa a l'angle del TT, amb la de 438 marcava 73,5º, i ara amb la de 470 mm. marcava 71º-72º.
Cal pensar que aquests angles, els de la forquilla de 470 mm. són més propis d'una bike semi-rígida de 130 mm. que no pas d'una forquilla rígida equivalent a 100 mm. pel que fa a l'equivalència de l'alçada.
El motiu és clar, la Vicious The Motivator Single Speed, aquesta unitat està pensada per a 71,5º-73,5º de pipa i TT respectivament per a una forquilla de 440 mm. no per a una forquilla de 470 mm.
Aquest fet, aquest punt és important, molt, perquè ens indica que cada bike està pensada per a una construcció específica.
Cal pensar que pujar tres centímetres l'alçada de la la pipa, implica també pujar la caixa de "pedalier", fet que fa que la bike sigui menys estable, això és el què diu la teoria, jo a la realitat no he notat aquesta manca d'estabilitat, en cap cas, i als girs que és a on s'hauria de posar en evidència aquesta manca d'estabilitat no he notat tampoc res.
Avui, aquest matí pedalant durant unes dues hores tocades, al sensació al primer minut de pujada ha estat definitiu, recuperació de les bones sensacions, de les millors sensacions, enrere han quedat les males sensacions escalant pel Montalt. De fet ahir al vespre un cop a dalt del Montalt per les males sensacions vàrem decidir girar cua i tornar cap a casa. Pel fet de que pujant no tenia bones sensacions, per no dir molt dolentes.
MTB, MTB, MTB.
Cielo.
http://cielo.chrisking.com/
Per una banda, per dues o per tres, podem mirar-ho com pensem que sigui millor, però aquestes bikes d'un temps cap aquí han pujat un punt per sobre d'on estaven, mtb, mtb, mtb.
Ara a esperar a veure que decideixen fer, perquè el tram, el proper pot ser emocionant, i tant que sí.
MTB, MTB, MTB.
Avui pedalant propers a Verges, les carreteres i les pistes em diuen que fer-les amb una bike com aquest seria magnífic, sensacional, però després passats aquests instants impera el pensament que, "sempre hi ha un cotxe despistat, sempre, i amb un en tinc prou per patir un bon disgust", sí, ja ho sé, així no sortiriem de casa, em podeu dir, però també és veritat que del meu entorn hi ha diferents ciclistes que han patit un cop amb cotxes, tots han passat pel quiròfan, i també ho és que tots segueixen fent carretera, jo no, avui per avui.
He de dir també que les ganes de fer carretera hi són, de fet tinc bici de carretera, he fet molta però molta carretera, també ho és que han passat molts anys i el trànsit avui no té res a veure.
El dijous a BO amb la Moots RSL aquest pensament, el de fer carretera hi va ser molt present, avui també, i tant que sí.
Haro.
Haro, m'agrada aquesta marca, des de sempre.
MTB, MTB, MTB.
El color Bol D'Or, color de resistència, sí senyor.
Haro, senzilla, sí, directa competidora de la Kona Unit, i tant que sí.
Si mireu les imatges el que m'interessa després de la bike, l'entorn, com m'interessa l'entorn, quina curiositat que em genera, mtb, mtb, mtb.
MTB, MTB, MTB.
El color Bol D'Or, color de resistència, sí senyor.
Haro, senzilla, sí, directa competidora de la Kona Unit, i tant que sí.
Si mireu les imatges el que m'interessa després de la bike, l'entorn, com m'interessa l'entorn, quina curiositat que em genera, mtb, mtb, mtb.
Black Cat.
http://www.blackcatbicycles.com/2012_01_01_archive.html
Una bike, una marca que té des de fa un temps lloc a The Great Escape MTB, no el millor lloc, avui.
Prepararé un Retrotec vs Black Cat.
No avui, ara pendent de Firefly i IF, però aquest vs, el de la Black Cat i Retrotec, serà interessant, molt interessant.
MTB, MTB, MTB.
English? Cycles.
http://2012.handmadebicycleshow.com/2012-bikes/2012/02/13/english-cycles-b-skinny-project/
MTB, MTB, MTB.
Jo la veig i la sensació és de no poder digerir tanta creativitat, no perquè m'agradi més, o m'agradi menys, si no pel fet de crear, les creacions si no em fan mal als ulls, i si és així també, són per a mi aportacions que fan que el dia sumi, i sumi, i sumi, sumem?
Cielo.
http://www.2011.handmadebicycleshow.com/author/cielocycles/
Ja fa dies que en parlem, sí, sí, ja ho sé, King al darrera, i?
Caldrà que passi temps, i tant que sí.
MTB, MTB, MTB.
Circuit Montalt.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MJio3s2wFI&feature=related
MTB, MTB, MTB.
47 fan que amb aquest ritme l'atac pugui, sigui, mtb, mtb, mtb.
Brooks England.
Mateu, mtb, mtb, mtb.
http://www.brooksengland.com/curiosities-and-friends/stories-and-photos/used-butchered-tied/110910_164809_125/
MTB, MTB, MTB.
http://www.brooksengland.com/curiosities-and-friends/stories-and-photos/used-butchered-tied/110910_164809_125/
MTB, MTB, MTB.
Brooks England.
http://www.brooksengland.com/curiosities-and-friends/stories-and-photos/more-stories/120201_222809_220/
Anem a pedalar, sí senyor, mtb, mtb, mtb.
divendres, de febrer 24, 2012
Circuit Montalt.
Pensar que, "no és un circuit fet fa poc", vull dir que el fem cada dia i no pensem avui que hem de canviar, si no que el què pensem és, "anem-hi, anem-hi", és un clar indicador que el Circuit Montalt té unes característiques ideals, perfectes per a tenir les ganes un cop passades les hores de tornar-hi, i tornar-hi ara sí, ara també.
Aquest matí de divendres, no fa fred, gens, i ja penso, "aniria a pedalar".
No és fàcil, tot recorregut pot acabar siguen monòton, i aconseguir que això ara per a ara no sigui així, és senzillament gratificant.
Està més que bé, pel fet de què és un circuit divertit, si domines la tècnica pots fer-lo molt i molt ràpid, no és el meu cas, però si aconseguim passar-hi les properes setmanes, si aconseguim fer-lo tot a dalt de la bike, que ja el fèiem tot, però ara als nous trams hi ha un parell de baixadors que la Longboard encara no fa amb el seu genet a dalt, però que serà, de ben segur.
Cada dia que passo per aquest tram, veig les fades de la nit, cada dia, i penso, "s'aturaran i parlaran amb mi? i si ho fan podré rodar de nit sense llums?", sí ja ho sé, quan passi ja ho veuré, ara de mentre cal rodar pel circuit de dia, mirant de millorar la sensació de control.
Baixant, tècnica Jordi, cames rectes, braços relaxats, tècnica Mateu, dibuixant el terreny, tècnica Oulego, talons baixats, tècnica Luís, no cal anar tan a sobre de la roda del darrera.
Escalant, tècnica Overed, estirant el pedal cap enrere, tècnica Home del Monetseny, talons baixats, tècnica Mateu, el cos no ha d'anar de costat.
Us puc assegurar que cada consell d'aquests especialistes el tenim com l'A-B-C del sortir a pedalar, no seguim cap més criteri, sempre seguint al peu de la lletra cada una d'aquestes instruccions.
Deia a la darrera sortida, "ja sempre baixo amb les cames rectes, sense pensar-hi", deia avui per telèfon, "a les imatges el peu està escalant amb el taló baixat totalment", cal perseverar, som lluny, sóc lluny d'on he de ser, però amb paciència i perseverança serà, segur que sí, oi que sí?
MTB, MTB, MTB.
Aquest matí de divendres, no fa fred, gens, i ja penso, "aniria a pedalar".
No és fàcil, tot recorregut pot acabar siguen monòton, i aconseguir que això ara per a ara no sigui així, és senzillament gratificant.
Està més que bé, pel fet de què és un circuit divertit, si domines la tècnica pots fer-lo molt i molt ràpid, no és el meu cas, però si aconseguim passar-hi les properes setmanes, si aconseguim fer-lo tot a dalt de la bike, que ja el fèiem tot, però ara als nous trams hi ha un parell de baixadors que la Longboard encara no fa amb el seu genet a dalt, però que serà, de ben segur.
Cada dia que passo per aquest tram, veig les fades de la nit, cada dia, i penso, "s'aturaran i parlaran amb mi? i si ho fan podré rodar de nit sense llums?", sí ja ho sé, quan passi ja ho veuré, ara de mentre cal rodar pel circuit de dia, mirant de millorar la sensació de control.
Baixant, tècnica Jordi, cames rectes, braços relaxats, tècnica Mateu, dibuixant el terreny, tècnica Oulego, talons baixats, tècnica Luís, no cal anar tan a sobre de la roda del darrera.
Escalant, tècnica Overed, estirant el pedal cap enrere, tècnica Home del Monetseny, talons baixats, tècnica Mateu, el cos no ha d'anar de costat.
Us puc assegurar que cada consell d'aquests especialistes el tenim com l'A-B-C del sortir a pedalar, no seguim cap més criteri, sempre seguint al peu de la lletra cada una d'aquestes instruccions.
Deia a la darrera sortida, "ja sempre baixo amb les cames rectes, sense pensar-hi", deia avui per telèfon, "a les imatges el peu està escalant amb el taló baixat totalment", cal perseverar, som lluny, sóc lluny d'on he de ser, però amb paciència i perseverança serà, segur que sí, oi que sí?
MTB, MTB, MTB.
Black cat.
http://www.blackcatbicycles.com/2012_01_01_archive.html
Són diferents? no.
Són del meu gust? no ho sé.
Em decidiria per aquesta marca avui? no.
Demà?, no.
Mai? crec que podria ser, per tant mai no ho puc dir.
"Que una 29er de 13,5 Kg. de XC és una bike que nos erveix per res, sí que ho puc dir".
Una marca Black Cat que no em deixa pensar amb cap més marca que amb Retrorec.
En vindrà una tercera, però això ja serà demà després de dinar, i als qui pedalem pel camp ens agradarà, mtb, mtb, mtb.
Música Circuit Montalt.
Pels nous tres trams ja tic seleccionada la música.
De fet la d'avui, la d'aquesta matinada ja és nova, perquè va a un dels nous trams.
La de demà, no, no és nova, perquè pel tram per on passo mentre l'escoltava, ara fa dies que no porto la música, és vell, i també bell, com la música de demà.
La del dia 28 m'agrada, perquè és, perquè porta noves propostes.
Si cerco nous trams cerco noves músiques per passar-hi amb elles, la qüestió és si cerco primer noves músiques quan surti a rodar pel circuit Montalt apareixeran nous trams?
Puc fer un intent, us poso primer la música que no va lligada a cap tram:
A la tarda sortida pel circuit Montalt que serà aquesta tarda, després d'un bon dinar al Xeflis de Campins, hi haurà un nou tram ara que us he posat aquesta nova música seleccionada prèviament per a ell?
MTB, MTB, MTB.
Us ho confirmo a la nit.
Coming Soon.
De fet la d'avui, la d'aquesta matinada ja és nova, perquè va a un dels nous trams.
La de demà, no, no és nova, perquè pel tram per on passo mentre l'escoltava, ara fa dies que no porto la música, és vell, i també bell, com la música de demà.
La del dia 28 m'agrada, perquè és, perquè porta noves propostes.
Si cerco nous trams cerco noves músiques per passar-hi amb elles, la qüestió és si cerco primer noves músiques quan surti a rodar pel circuit Montalt apareixeran nous trams?
Puc fer un intent, us poso primer la música que no va lligada a cap tram:
A la tarda sortida pel circuit Montalt que serà aquesta tarda, després d'un bon dinar al Xeflis de Campins, hi haurà un nou tram ara que us he posat aquesta nova música seleccionada prèviament per a ell?
MTB, MTB, MTB.
Us ho confirmo a la nit.
Coming Soon.
King Cage Titanium Chain Guards: No pot ser.
Però és.
http://www.2011.handmadebicycleshow.com/2011/02/23/king-cage-titanium-chain-guards/
Què no veig?
Què no veig?
Què no veig?
A on anirem a parar, mtb, mtb, mtb.
http://www.2011.handmadebicycleshow.com/2011/02/23/king-cage-titanium-chain-guards/
Què no veig?
Què no veig?
Què no veig?
A on anirem a parar, mtb, mtb, mtb.
Circuit Montalt.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTNI9Wgs8lw&feature=related
Aquesta té el què cal per atacar, atacar i atacar, mtb, mtb, mtb.
De Salvo.
http://www.2011.handmadebicycleshow.com/2011/02/25/2011-desalvo-show-bikes/
No "falla", Syncros, i un punt difícil per a mi, el TT Cruiser, mtb, mtb, mtb.
Vinga una matinada De Salvo.
MTB, MTB, MTB.
De Salvo.
Ja va ser protagonista d'aquest espai, fa temps sí, però sense mirar que vaig posar al seu dia, us puc dic segur que vaig dir, i si no ho vaig dir, ho dic avui, "totes, aquesta i totes les De Salvo cap a casa".
http://www.2011.handmadebicycleshow.com/2011/02/25/2011-desalvo-show-bikes/
Curiós decidir-se per Ritchey, però ja fa uns anys a casa es va perseguir un muntatge tot Ritchey, amb l'ARC, va ser impossibble aconseguir les rodes WCS.
Aquesta seria una de les meves cinc preferides, ara són cinc, bé són més de cinc, però si parlem de De Salvo està entre les cinc primeres, mtb, mtb, mtb.
Vaig a buscar l'equivalent a MTB, que també va ser motiu de presentació a aquest espai, i recordo que anava amb la marca propietat de Ritchey, Syncros.
http://www.2011.handmadebicycleshow.com/2011/02/25/2011-desalvo-show-bikes/
Curiós decidir-se per Ritchey, però ja fa uns anys a casa es va perseguir un muntatge tot Ritchey, amb l'ARC, va ser impossibble aconseguir les rodes WCS.
Aquesta seria una de les meves cinc preferides, ara són cinc, bé són més de cinc, però si parlem de De Salvo està entre les cinc primeres, mtb, mtb, mtb.
Vaig a buscar l'equivalent a MTB, que també va ser motiu de presentació a aquest espai, i recordo que anava amb la marca propietat de Ritchey, Syncros.
dijous, de febrer 23, 2012
Where is Jay?
Vull pensar què o que els dos camins van al mateix temps, però jo diria que no.
http://cielo.chrisking.com/build-team/
"THE BUILD TEAM
The build team supporting Chris at Cielo Cycles is a mix of framebuilding veterans along with staff drawn directly from the production team at Chris King Precision Components. Much like the bicycles they create, the team is a mixture of heritage and modernity.
Founder: In addition to prototyping, design work and overseeing the entire operation Chris King is still very much a part of the build process. Cielo by Chris King are individually made, ultra-premium bicycles made in limited numbers by Chris King himself.
Design Manager: Jay SyCip founded SyCip Designs in 1992 with his brother Jeremy and for 16 years designed bikes overshadowed only by his remarkably gregarious personality and passion for the bicycle community. Jay joined King Cycle Group in 2008 and oversees the Cielo Cycles production process while also serving as a product manager for Chris King Precision Components.
Senior Frame Builder: Buck Olen grew up in Santa Rosa, where, at the age of five, he got his first bicycle. After school, some traveling and a brief Coast Guard stint, Buck made his way back to Northern California.
“I hooked up with some friends in San Francisco who were still cycling, mostly BMX and mountain biking. I also had this brakeless single speed road bike, when I wanted to stop I had to put my foot in the front wheel. Everyone was just excited to be doing it, it wasn’t an elite scene at all, everyone was just riding and I fell in love with cycling again.”
Buck quit his construction job, sold his tools and his truck and started buying, repairing, trading, fixing, modifying and wrangling bikes out of his apartment – “garage shop” style. He made the rounds, thrift stores and garage sales, looking for parts and frames. He also rode as courier in SF four days a week, five hours a day, which left him plenty of time to ride on his own too. Buck began to informally apprentice with some old-school lifer-mechanics. This lead to an introduction to Jay and Jeremy Sycip and a few years wrenching experience at Dave’s Bike and Sport, a local shop and institution. By this time Buck was considering going after a professional mechanic certification. He started to look around and interview for the next career move. He interviewed for a brazing position at Co-motion Cycles in Eugene, Oregon; two months later, he was hired. Buck was trained by Bob Westman, a 15-year veteran, the only other brazer working at Co-motion. A year and lots of late night and weekend practice later, Buck took over welding and started mitering and moving through and experiencing every station on the floor. Buck estimates he built more than 1000 bikes in three years. Around that time, Buck ran into Jay Sycip again, but Jay was now at Cielo. Buck mentioned to Jay that funnily enough he (Buck) was looking for a challenge and the chance to move to Portland. Four months later Buck was building bikes in Chris King’s barn with Gabe and Chris King himself.
“It was intimidating to work with Chris, but you could tell he was so psyched to be back in the shop and building, so there was this sense that we were all there having fun.”
Production Supervisor: Nick Sande can count on one hand the number of years in his life that bicycling wasn’t a daily experience. Four were spent learning to walk and talk, the fifth year was a brief detour in high school behind the wheel of a ’84 Chevy Caprice Wagon, or as Nick described it, “a couch with wheels.” Since then, Nick has spent much of his time riding and thinking about bicycles. During his twenties, he worked in shops and bounced between Minneapolis and Portland, In 1993, Nick found himself working for QBP and spent the next 16 years doing everything from distribution and wheel building to product development and engineering. Nick ended his tenure with a seven-year stint working to help create much of the current Surly line.
The long, cold Minnesota winters eventually took their toll and Nick’s exuberance for using bicycles as a vehicle for exploration led him to uproot and move to Portland. The city’s thriving bike culture and easy access to the outdoors conspired to create an irresistible combination. Now, when Nick is not managing the complex task of keeping perfect Cielos on time step-by-step, he can be found in the far reaches of the state looking for the place he hasn’t been.
Frame Builder: Jesse Bambrick grew up outside Lansing, Michigan. His first bike was a mountain bike, it was a beater but it was his only way out of town and he liked to get out of town. After high school and part way through an unimpressive electronics program at the local community college, Jesse and his girlfriend Beth went on a five-month bike tour that ended, 3,600 miles later, in Eugene. Jesse fell in love with cycling. After several years working at a bike shop back in Michigan, Jesse and Beth moved back to the Pacific Northwest, this time to Portland. He worked for Chris King first as a materials handler and then, after catching wind that Cielo was in the process of being re-born, as an apprentice Frame Builder.
“Ever since that cross-country trip, I’ve wanted to build bicycle frames and this was my chance.”
Detail oriented and compelled to make things with his own two hands, Jesse, with Gabe and Buck’s help, has learned to build bikes. Jesse likes to make things fit and he still likes to get out of town on his bike.
Frame Builder: Chris Scuglia grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico with lots of miles hiking and mountain biking along the Rio Grande. San Francisco called his name in 1994 where he quickly found a job as bike messenger for a company located directly across the alley from Sycip Designs. (ed.- How strange is that?!?) After six years turning the pedals as a messenger he was offered a job at Kelly Bike Company and did everything from finishing raw frames to shipping and receiving. Somewhere in all this he fought fires for the National Park Service for two years and around 2003, Chris left to pursue a career in fine architectural metal fabrication in Boise, Idaho. He opened up Scuglia Fabrication, an 800sq./ft fab shop, making a couple bikes, doing some frame repair, adding on braze-ons for people as well as making trophies and furniture and truck racks and hand rails and whatever paid the bills. As only love can do, Chris followed his wife to Paris, France in 2009 and worked as a mechanic for a bicycle tour company. On a lark, Chris sent his resume to Chris King in June 2010 for a machinists position, nailed his interview and made the move to Portland, OR. It didn’t take long for Cielo to grab a hold of him and to Chris King Precision Components we say, “Merci beaucoup!”
Painter: Ben is a perfectionist. At a company built on the idea that when you do something you do it exactly right, perfection is the precise quality you want in someone who is going to apply the piece de resistance, the frame paint. Ben spent three-and-a-half years at Seven cycles. During that time he first apprenticed then ran their paint department, developed new paint schemes, trained other painters, and put the paint on countless frames. He draws inspiration from his many side projects that include developing a jewelry line and printmaking while constantly feeding his fascination with architecture and design.
Having spent time mountain biking in Colorado before he moved himself out to Boston for architecture school, Ben now uses his bicycle as his main mode of transportation. If you believe that each day of work inspires the next, that each new challenge breeds a new solution and each new solution breeds a new challenge, then you could go on creating forever, and Ben wouldn’t have it any other way.
Cielo Support: Eric Speakman was raised just outside of Philadelphia, and cut his teeth mountaineering in the forests and mountains of the eastern United States. Cycling has always been a part of his life, but it wasn’t until his move to Portland, where he began working for Chris King that it became a focal point. Upon moving to Portland he came to realize that road cycling allowed the same type of escapism and solitude that he cherished in mountaineering, while offering the immediate satisfaction of being able to leave right from his front door.
Eric spent three years as part of the Chris King sales team, addressing any and all customer service issues before taking a year off to finish his geography degree. Eric now works part- time in the Cielo shop buffing, cleaning, and scrutinizing each frame before and after it goes to paint. He could be considered the Cielo gatekeeper, as he is most likely the last person to touch your bike before it is delivered into your hands.
Cielo Support: Ben Schultz was born in the great state of Wisconsin in October 1986, by all accounts he is the youngest member of the Cielo team. His first obsession was with cars, with a penchant for “spirited” driving Ben found himself modifying, tweaking and tuning everything, never happy with good enough. It was Ben’s other passion, his love for coffee, which brought him to Portland. His obsession with cars had morphed into an appetite for coffee. While he supported himself through college by pulling espresso shots, he developed a heightened awareness of environmental issues and found himself falling in love with bicycles.
Soon he was balancing coffee with part-time work in local bike shops while he completed the UBI frame-building course. It was a chance meeting with Jay Sycip outside of Water Avenue Coffee that lead to a conversation about coffee and bicycles and eventually led him to a job handling a majority of Cielo’s prep work. It is Ben’s drive to refine and perfect everything put in front of him that makes him a perfect fit for Cielo. We look forward to seeing him continue to add his golden touch to each of your frames.
Collaborations: Chris King Precision Components, with its renowned engineering and manufacturing departments, supports the build team at Cielo – Machined fork crowns, stainless steel dropouts, head tube collars and engraved seat stay caps are just a select few of the items they help Cielo Cycles fabricate."
MTB, MTB, MTB.
http://cielo.chrisking.com/build-team/
"THE BUILD TEAM
The build team supporting Chris at Cielo Cycles is a mix of framebuilding veterans along with staff drawn directly from the production team at Chris King Precision Components. Much like the bicycles they create, the team is a mixture of heritage and modernity.
Founder: In addition to prototyping, design work and overseeing the entire operation Chris King is still very much a part of the build process. Cielo by Chris King are individually made, ultra-premium bicycles made in limited numbers by Chris King himself.
Design Manager: Jay SyCip founded SyCip Designs in 1992 with his brother Jeremy and for 16 years designed bikes overshadowed only by his remarkably gregarious personality and passion for the bicycle community. Jay joined King Cycle Group in 2008 and oversees the Cielo Cycles production process while also serving as a product manager for Chris King Precision Components.
Senior Frame Builder: Buck Olen grew up in Santa Rosa, where, at the age of five, he got his first bicycle. After school, some traveling and a brief Coast Guard stint, Buck made his way back to Northern California.
“I hooked up with some friends in San Francisco who were still cycling, mostly BMX and mountain biking. I also had this brakeless single speed road bike, when I wanted to stop I had to put my foot in the front wheel. Everyone was just excited to be doing it, it wasn’t an elite scene at all, everyone was just riding and I fell in love with cycling again.”
Buck quit his construction job, sold his tools and his truck and started buying, repairing, trading, fixing, modifying and wrangling bikes out of his apartment – “garage shop” style. He made the rounds, thrift stores and garage sales, looking for parts and frames. He also rode as courier in SF four days a week, five hours a day, which left him plenty of time to ride on his own too. Buck began to informally apprentice with some old-school lifer-mechanics. This lead to an introduction to Jay and Jeremy Sycip and a few years wrenching experience at Dave’s Bike and Sport, a local shop and institution. By this time Buck was considering going after a professional mechanic certification. He started to look around and interview for the next career move. He interviewed for a brazing position at Co-motion Cycles in Eugene, Oregon; two months later, he was hired. Buck was trained by Bob Westman, a 15-year veteran, the only other brazer working at Co-motion. A year and lots of late night and weekend practice later, Buck took over welding and started mitering and moving through and experiencing every station on the floor. Buck estimates he built more than 1000 bikes in three years. Around that time, Buck ran into Jay Sycip again, but Jay was now at Cielo. Buck mentioned to Jay that funnily enough he (Buck) was looking for a challenge and the chance to move to Portland. Four months later Buck was building bikes in Chris King’s barn with Gabe and Chris King himself.
“It was intimidating to work with Chris, but you could tell he was so psyched to be back in the shop and building, so there was this sense that we were all there having fun.”
Production Supervisor: Nick Sande can count on one hand the number of years in his life that bicycling wasn’t a daily experience. Four were spent learning to walk and talk, the fifth year was a brief detour in high school behind the wheel of a ’84 Chevy Caprice Wagon, or as Nick described it, “a couch with wheels.” Since then, Nick has spent much of his time riding and thinking about bicycles. During his twenties, he worked in shops and bounced between Minneapolis and Portland, In 1993, Nick found himself working for QBP and spent the next 16 years doing everything from distribution and wheel building to product development and engineering. Nick ended his tenure with a seven-year stint working to help create much of the current Surly line.
The long, cold Minnesota winters eventually took their toll and Nick’s exuberance for using bicycles as a vehicle for exploration led him to uproot and move to Portland. The city’s thriving bike culture and easy access to the outdoors conspired to create an irresistible combination. Now, when Nick is not managing the complex task of keeping perfect Cielos on time step-by-step, he can be found in the far reaches of the state looking for the place he hasn’t been.
Frame Builder: Jesse Bambrick grew up outside Lansing, Michigan. His first bike was a mountain bike, it was a beater but it was his only way out of town and he liked to get out of town. After high school and part way through an unimpressive electronics program at the local community college, Jesse and his girlfriend Beth went on a five-month bike tour that ended, 3,600 miles later, in Eugene. Jesse fell in love with cycling. After several years working at a bike shop back in Michigan, Jesse and Beth moved back to the Pacific Northwest, this time to Portland. He worked for Chris King first as a materials handler and then, after catching wind that Cielo was in the process of being re-born, as an apprentice Frame Builder.
“Ever since that cross-country trip, I’ve wanted to build bicycle frames and this was my chance.”
Detail oriented and compelled to make things with his own two hands, Jesse, with Gabe and Buck’s help, has learned to build bikes. Jesse likes to make things fit and he still likes to get out of town on his bike.
Frame Builder: Chris Scuglia grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico with lots of miles hiking and mountain biking along the Rio Grande. San Francisco called his name in 1994 where he quickly found a job as bike messenger for a company located directly across the alley from Sycip Designs. (ed.- How strange is that?!?) After six years turning the pedals as a messenger he was offered a job at Kelly Bike Company and did everything from finishing raw frames to shipping and receiving. Somewhere in all this he fought fires for the National Park Service for two years and around 2003, Chris left to pursue a career in fine architectural metal fabrication in Boise, Idaho. He opened up Scuglia Fabrication, an 800sq./ft fab shop, making a couple bikes, doing some frame repair, adding on braze-ons for people as well as making trophies and furniture and truck racks and hand rails and whatever paid the bills. As only love can do, Chris followed his wife to Paris, France in 2009 and worked as a mechanic for a bicycle tour company. On a lark, Chris sent his resume to Chris King in June 2010 for a machinists position, nailed his interview and made the move to Portland, OR. It didn’t take long for Cielo to grab a hold of him and to Chris King Precision Components we say, “Merci beaucoup!”
Painter: Ben is a perfectionist. At a company built on the idea that when you do something you do it exactly right, perfection is the precise quality you want in someone who is going to apply the piece de resistance, the frame paint. Ben spent three-and-a-half years at Seven cycles. During that time he first apprenticed then ran their paint department, developed new paint schemes, trained other painters, and put the paint on countless frames. He draws inspiration from his many side projects that include developing a jewelry line and printmaking while constantly feeding his fascination with architecture and design.
Having spent time mountain biking in Colorado before he moved himself out to Boston for architecture school, Ben now uses his bicycle as his main mode of transportation. If you believe that each day of work inspires the next, that each new challenge breeds a new solution and each new solution breeds a new challenge, then you could go on creating forever, and Ben wouldn’t have it any other way.
Cielo Support: Eric Speakman was raised just outside of Philadelphia, and cut his teeth mountaineering in the forests and mountains of the eastern United States. Cycling has always been a part of his life, but it wasn’t until his move to Portland, where he began working for Chris King that it became a focal point. Upon moving to Portland he came to realize that road cycling allowed the same type of escapism and solitude that he cherished in mountaineering, while offering the immediate satisfaction of being able to leave right from his front door.
Eric spent three years as part of the Chris King sales team, addressing any and all customer service issues before taking a year off to finish his geography degree. Eric now works part- time in the Cielo shop buffing, cleaning, and scrutinizing each frame before and after it goes to paint. He could be considered the Cielo gatekeeper, as he is most likely the last person to touch your bike before it is delivered into your hands.
Cielo Support: Ben Schultz was born in the great state of Wisconsin in October 1986, by all accounts he is the youngest member of the Cielo team. His first obsession was with cars, with a penchant for “spirited” driving Ben found himself modifying, tweaking and tuning everything, never happy with good enough. It was Ben’s other passion, his love for coffee, which brought him to Portland. His obsession with cars had morphed into an appetite for coffee. While he supported himself through college by pulling espresso shots, he developed a heightened awareness of environmental issues and found himself falling in love with bicycles.
Soon he was balancing coffee with part-time work in local bike shops while he completed the UBI frame-building course. It was a chance meeting with Jay Sycip outside of Water Avenue Coffee that lead to a conversation about coffee and bicycles and eventually led him to a job handling a majority of Cielo’s prep work. It is Ben’s drive to refine and perfect everything put in front of him that makes him a perfect fit for Cielo. We look forward to seeing him continue to add his golden touch to each of your frames.
Collaborations: Chris King Precision Components, with its renowned engineering and manufacturing departments, supports the build team at Cielo – Machined fork crowns, stainless steel dropouts, head tube collars and engraved seat stay caps are just a select few of the items they help Cielo Cycles fabricate."
MTB, MTB, MTB.
Black Sheep "Luna Vista, rigid and single".
http://forums.mtbr.com/9018693-post134.html
M'agrada molt, pel fet de poder ser Single Speed específica.
Menys que la Jeff Jones, m'agrada menys que la Jeff Jones, però aquesta si la demanes és, pot ser Single Speed específica, la Jeff Jones no.
MTB, MTB, MTB.
Signal Bycicles bis.
http://bikeportland.org/photos/tags/nahbspreview2008/photo/2242488427/nahbs-preview-signal-cycles.html
Únicament puc dir, mtb, mtb, mtb.
És que aquestes imatges són úniques, quina creació, per favor, per favor, per favor.
MTB, MTB, MTB, i MTB, sí senyor.
Colorado-BO Day.
És que avui ve a pedalar a BO en Colorado, i a dinar, també, i a dinar també.
Per tant Colorado-BO Day, mtb, mtb, mtb.
El poso primer perquè ve poc, i a veure si així "l'encandilem".
I de ben segur que tindrem crònica al Blog.
MTB, MTB, MTB.
Atacant els 18ºC, que bé, que bé, que bé.
Per tant Colorado-BO Day, mtb, mtb, mtb.
El poso primer perquè ve poc, i a veure si així "l'encandilem".
I de ben segur que tindrem crònica al Blog.
MTB, MTB, MTB.
Atacant els 18ºC, que bé, que bé, que bé.
WTD Belt Drive CT 46x32.
http://www.dirtragmag.com/webrag/first-impression-spot-brand-rocker-ss
WTD Belt Drive CT 46x32, mtb, mtb, mtb.
Llista de trams.
És el què va ser la traginada de "wzp" amb en Miki, entre molts i molts temes, el de la música del circuit Montalt, també va ser.
He de posar un resum, "links" de totes elles, perquè aquestes ja seran les que definiran el circuit, encara però no les he posat totes, però per aquest motiu, important anar perfilant com ha de ser.
Vull dir que així com tenim els vídeos situats on són, hem de fer perquè la música del circuit Montalt tingui el seu lloc, que no és el mateix que tenir música al Blog, en cap cas. De fet el tema no va en cap cas de música, un únic tema quan parlem de música, el circuit Montalt.
MTB, MTB, MTB.
He de posar un resum, "links" de totes elles, perquè aquestes ja seran les que definiran el circuit, encara però no les he posat totes, però per aquest motiu, important anar perfilant com ha de ser.
Vull dir que així com tenim els vídeos situats on són, hem de fer perquè la música del circuit Montalt tingui el seu lloc, que no és el mateix que tenir música al Blog, en cap cas. De fet el tema no va en cap cas de música, un únic tema quan parlem de música, el circuit Montalt.
MTB, MTB, MTB.
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