anyone want to get drunk with me at nahbs tomorrow?
goal 1: find prolly
goal 2: ask him if he posts on tarckbike
i fyou eat meat burgs you gotta get one at http://holygralelouisville.com/
seriously best burg i’ve ever had
expensive but fuckn amazing
If you ever make it to Richmond we’ll get burgers. I think we have a few here that can challenge.
I’m also going to be in Richmond
Goal 1. Eat Hamburgers
Goal 2. Ride bikes
Goal 3. Troll Prolls
Goal 4. Uhh… there’s a pro racing going on right?
let us know how nahbs was. i heard its crickets this year.
Not many exhibitors. So sure. I’ll take pics.
a link from v salon.
http://www.cxmagazine.com/nahbs-2015-louisville-cyclocross-gravel-day-1
Pointy bike is insured for $150000
I don’t think it makes sense to exhibit at nahbs unless u have literally no expose and need free shit
with instagram/the internet at large you can just link sick beads/fillets and get customers imho
fuck nahbs and the cost of going
One of the least-shitty bikes there is going to my friend Tim.
So much ugly bullshit.
there wasnt much ugly bullshit there this year.
just a ton of fat bikes, gravel bikes, custom carbon and fendered road. Lots of custom mountain bikes too.
prolly said he liked a fizik saddle better after he broke it/cracked it or something. I pretty much avoided him 100% but he kept just fucking showing up and interrupting me talking to peeps
I’l post pics tomorrow.
now is time for NAPS&SNAKS
The fizik kurve is the flexy one
yeah but he was like I didn’t like it at first.
then I broke it,
then it was ok.
to the fizik guy.
how old is prolly?
like 43?
How do you go from this:
to this:
http://abbottcycles.com/
Dat ass
So shimano had the front booth right when you walk in.
shillin shit. They had some peeps build them bikes. A lot of cool e-bikes.
the price point seems way off for the US market but it seems aight.
up next was cherubim. They used to do a bunch of crazy stuff. Now they do a bunch of on point steel road.
just. a GORGEOUS level of finish. I can’t stress this enough.
The sparkle on this fucker was just unreal. TAF 4 sure.
took this one from the booth set up just to view this frame from other angles.
I mean… velocity. They had some rims there too I guess.
Zen had some really cool gravel bikes. They had cool custom import forks with mid fork rack mounts and fender mounts. The rear fender mounts were slick as hell and hidden.
I liked that they were using a curved DT for their mountain bike. Also their thin seatstays across the line is nice.
This business won best lugged frame. It was real nice in person. Just doing the thing well.
no paint.
This bike was one of my faves. I have a huge mondrian boner from seeing his stuff at the dayton art institute when I was 16. I don’t know why I like his stuff so much. It just gets me. The lack of real mondrian-ness was awkward but it was cool enough.
this was a cool rando bike
needed to hook up with the mudflap guy from rivet.
mr shamrock
I don’t know how boo is still in business. The bikes seemed cool in person though. I don’t know how they sell with online presentation though.
Holland had their Ti and carbon game on point.
This custom drawn ti with carbon formed in was really cool. Really light too. Probably the best of no worlds but a cool thing if you want some pepsi in your frame. I imagine the ti and carbon wanting to flex differently and delaminate in a lot of years.
Here is the chainstays all the way to the headtube bike. It didn’t do anything for me. The craftmanship wasn’t there to pull off it’s shenanigans. This goes for all the bikes in his booth.
Erikson had a ton of cool stuff.
The full suspenspion ti had me going. It just looked really tight. appointed? Machined parts. Cool rear end. Just looked whippy and fun as hell.
This is that light blue mosaic. There was a cooler one in the campy booth
FIXIE GAME
road bikes done right
The campy booth had this cool calfee built lemond. 74º st 73º ht 57x55. Calfee was there was I was oogling it and he still knew the geo. Campy guy told me about how they thought it was going to blow up and everyone was so excited when it didn’t.
really dicey shifter bosses
Here is that cool mosaic I was talking about. Stupid saddle but whatever
Some less normal bikes. The anti wheelie machine. There is a plate where tubed chainstays should be. Oh well.
rivet had some nice goods. Road fender leather mudflaps. Nice feeling saddles. Nothing crazy nice but priced well. Less than but nicer than brooks. I want to try out the mountain grips they have. They also do leather bar tape but I forgot to see if it was crazy money like the cinelli and brooks.
The guy from bilenky was scraping some corn out of his beard. we talked a lot about bike production. it was rad.
Oddity had a cool sparkle clear powder on a lot of stuff.
They also had a bed for doing backwards 360ºs like in rad.
wiseman was killing the fatbike game. Like. EVERYONE there had a fatbike. So. many. fatbikes.
Harvey is a machinist who makes frames now. He had a lot of really cool methods for making his rando/touring frames. I was really impressed. He had a system for external bosses for the fork so it wouldn’t ruin the integrity.
The kansas city collective took up a large area. they gave out free coffee.
There were custom bags.
Lots of variety
This is that chick prolly wrote a thing about. Her paint was messy
These guys spoke poor english. But they seemed to produce bicycles.
sometimes they were for the track
this is how you do nahbs
pace was there and had a ton of sweet hats from over the years. They had a TAF kit too. They wouldn’t give me a TAF hat though. just a regular one.
This low was in the cadence booth. It is a caad10 competitor. He hand formed all the rear triangle tubing for some pepsi and ride feel.
He had some cool decals that were heat safe for powder coating. This frame is masked, painted, and decaled
nahbs bullshit. There wasn’t as much as I thought there would be.
sarto still knows how to make amazing carbon. It was hard to take pictures. There were a lot of people in their tiny booth.
This was my favorite co-motion
these guys were super cool. They do road holland jerseys. I bought one.
lundbeck lives like 5 miles from me. So he showed up. He makes some pretty stuff.
this yellow isn’t to my taste but I’d rather fight over geo and construction than color.
The guy in the middle worked at carrytown. He had good things to say about it.
that bare frame DiNucci?
