Sarah’s Soma Buena Vista
Soma Buena Vista Build from carytownbicyclecompany on Vimeo. I just built up this amazing Soma Buena Vista bike for my wife Sarah to ride to and from class on. I carefully selected parts to maximize both utility and style. Suffice to say she absolutely loves it. Check it out. Frame and Fork: Soma Buena Vista...
Snow Cone Training Crits Part 1: First Blood.
Beautiful weather and a great day of racing for the second annual Carytown Bicycle SnowCone Training Series! The 70 rider strong B race came down to a field sprint, sorta. Justin Moyer from Team Carytown Bicycle Co., blasted away from the field with several hundred meters to go and held on to a great win....
Featured Customer Bike: Mikes Titanium Salsa El Mariachi
So much and yet so little can be said about Mike’s new titanium Salsa El Mariachi. Mike wanted a light, comfortable, and above all reliable 29er hardtail. Salsa supplied the U.S. made ti frame. The Fox F series fork was selected for it’s great performance and handling. Shimano’s proven XT group will provide years of...
Carytown Bicycle Co. is proud to partner with Independent Fabrication
Carytown Bicycle Co. is proud to partner with Independent Fabrication for custom steel, ti, and carbon fiber bicycles. I could not be happier to be working with these guys again. I worked with Independent Fabrication years before we opened up CBC when I was employed by Rowlett’s Bicycles. Today they are still one of my...
18 pound mountain bike? Yes please.
For 2012 Niner Bikes started offering tapered head-tubes on all their aluminum frames including the updated One9 single-speed chassis. They just so happened to come out with a tapered version of their already super light carbon rigid fork as well. This gave us the perfect opportunity to build up this super-light bike. The goal was...
Woo hoo!
My new custom Independent Fabrication frame is nearing completion! It left welding today and now they are going to start brazing on all the cable stops, fender mounts, and other cool stuff. Then it’s off to paint and hopefully soon into a box headed my way! I’m super excited about this project. It’s not often...
Oh SNAP!
What the heck is this? Official prototype or a really clean looking custom job. Either way it’s sick.
I want to tell you a little story ’cause it makes me warm inside…
My story is not remarkable. It’s not the stuff of cycling legends. It’s not the metoric rise of Ben King or the family destiny of Taylor Phinney. It contains not the glory nor the tragedy of the careers of Pantani and Van Den Broek. It’s probably not all that unlike your story. But while it...
Owners meeting
One of the great things about being part owner of Carytown Bicycle Co. is that both of my two partners are also cyclists. Even though we all come from different backgrounds we came together because of bicycles. Today after meeting with the contractors at our new location we were able to all get out for...
I hope I’m still kicking like this at 91
Head over to the Brooks website for the full story. Tommy Godwin takes a spin around the Herne Hill velodrome, the same track he won two Olympic medals on in 1948. So cool.
Gorilla tested, gorilla approved.
Cannondale Hooligan Banana Run from carytownbicyclecompany on Vimeo.
Mmm… healthy cookin’
A few people have been asking about some of the stuff I cook as part of my current diet. I commented on my transformation post with a bit but I thought I would go ahead and do a better job documenting a simple meal that takes about 15 minutes to prepare, is inexpensive, and most...
Not every bike has to be new and shiny… Hunter’s Trek commuter
Sure we’re in the business of selling new bikes… but that does not mean that there might not be a perfectly good used machine out there just waiting for you to find and refurbish. Hunter’s Trek is a great example of a almost discarded old bike that has been given new life and ridden...
