It would appear as such. Thus, I shall postpone this post no longer!
The shop is fully stocked of studded tyres for your continued Winter riding into the white stuff!
Also, round two of Walz cycling caps have been in. The vast majority of these are wool & have ear flaps for keeping your head nice & toasty when the temperature outside is not.
I’ve got a healthy stock of Bar Mitts in all shapes & sizes as well!
Here are a couple more wheels that I hand-built for customers!
This one is a Phil Wood fixed gear hub that is disc brake compatible. This wheel was built up for fixed gear mountain biking. Yes, you read that correctly! An Alex Adventurer rim laced up with Wheelsmith double-butted spokes make this wheel nothing short of solid & awesome!
This one is a Shimano Alfine internal 8 speed hub also laced up to an Alex Adventurer rim using Wheelsmith double-butted spokes in a four-cross pattern.
This is the new set up that will be pulling all of that pancake making goodness for Griddle Me This!
Here is the first of a bunch of wheels that I have hand-built for customers recently! This is the second set of wheels I have built for a customer in Solon.
The rear wheel is comprised of a Surly Rolling Darryl rim(powder-coated white!) laced up with black Wheelsmith double butted spokes to a Shimano XT rear hub. Likewise for the front, but with a Surly disc brake compatible fixed gear hub.
The wheels had to be built off center to accommodate Surly’s frame & fork which have the same offset.
Here’s a tandem wheelset I built up to go on a customer’s Burley tandem.
Before. Then, prest-o-change-o!
After! They are 48 hole Phil Wood tandem hubs laced up to Velocity Chukker rims with Wheelsmith DB spokes in a four-cross lacing.
These things are strong & built to last!
Indeed, they are in & they are pretty awesome!
Each cap is made in the USA & I’ve got a plethora of styles from moisture-wicking to wool.
Come in & check them out!
Fresh in the shop! Volume one of Yehuda Moon & The Kickstand Cyclery is here!
Check out this awesomeness!
From www.yehudamoon.com:
Yehuda Moon works at the Kickstand Cyclery, lives on his bicycle and dreams of a day when everyone does likewise.
The strip chronicles the on road and retail adventures of Yehuda Moon. Yehuda owns a bike shop, the Kickstand Cyclery, with his friend Joe, and the two are confronted with the challenges presented by their daily bicycle commute and the customers (or lack thereof) at the bike shop.
Another custom frame-up build to come out of the shop!
This one was a Kona Sutra frame built up into a light & fast single speed commuter.
Full fenders & rack are the usual staples for an awesome commuting bicycle. The Brooks B-17 in British Racing Green & copper rails complements the bike nicely. Other highlights are the Thomson seatpost & stem, White Industries eccentric hub & ENO freewheel, Soma Lauterwasser handlebar, Speedplay Frog pedals, & Sugino single speed crank.
Hand-stitched(by me) Velo Orange Elk hide handlebar covering give the handlebars an elegant look. The Stem Captain clock in the stem adds functional class!
Here is the front wheel that I hand-built to match the rear that I built weeks ago. Paul WORD hub on an Alex Adventurer rim using Wheelsmith double butted spokes. Continental Gatorskins put the rubber to the road.
It’s Bike To Work Week! Want to win an awesome bike?
Come into The Broken Spoke this week to enter a raffle for this fine Kona Ute cargo bike!
Tickets are just $5 with no maximum quantity limit! Proceeds will be split between the Iowa Bicycle Coalition & Think Bicycles!
The drawing will be held this Friday, May 20th.
UPDATE!
Due to some chaotic pandemonium at the Hideaway, the drawing has been postponed by one day!
Final tickets can be purchased either at the shop or at Griddle Me This! at the farmers market Saturday morning. Ride your bike & get $1 off your breakfast from Matt!
The drawing will be held at 4:00pm here at the shop!
Congratulations to Mark Conry for winning this fantastic bike!
Yet another custom hand-built wheel to come out of the shop! This is going on one of my customers’ very much loved Surly Long Haul Trucker.
This one consists of a Schmidt SONdelux generator hub laced up to the tried & true Alex Adventurer rim with Wheelsmith double-butted spokes. It will be used to power the Busch + Müller Lumotec IQ Cyo Senso Plus headlight & Dtoplight XS Plus taillight. I ordered the hub & lights from www.peterwhitecycles.com, which is the US distributor of many excellent German products.
This is definitely the smallest generator hub I have seen. It may provide the coolest reflection of any hub I’ve seen, as well. It’s neat how the rounded profile creates a “chain-link fence” image with the spokes. You can even see all of the way to the back of the shop in the lower right of the hub!
This was a used bike for sale at the shop that got bought by a customer and then we stripped it down to the bare frame so pretty much all of the parts could get updated with new stuff.
New parts consist of lots of Velo Orange stuff like hubs, crankset, bottom bracket, fenders, front & rear racks, & bottle cage. There is also a Nitto Albatross handlebar, Shimano LX front & rear derailleurs, Shimano 8-speed barend shifters, Tektro brake levers, Ergon cork grips, Dia-Compe brakes, Origin8 headset, Shimano generator hub powered headlight, Crane copper bell, & a Brooks b-67 saddle. The wheels were hand-built by me & finished off with Panaracer Pasela tyres with white tread & cream sidewalls.
I got thrown a lot of curve balls by this bike, but none of them couldn’t be overcome using my expansive set of problem solving skills! There are more than a few people that would say “that’s incompatible” or “that won’t work,” but I know otherwise. It just takes some clever thinking, some initiative, & knowledge.
This bike looks fantastic coming or going! So many little details really make this bike appreciated.
And while I forgot to take photographs of the completed wheelset, here is a photo of the front wheel before it got tensioned. It is a Velo Orange generator hub laced up with DT Revolution spokes to a polished Sun CR18 rim.
