Above Category seems to be quite the proper shop. Looking at zoot like this Pegoretti Responsorium makes me really miss working with high-end bikes as such. I’ve always been on the fence with a lot of Pegoretti’s paint, but this bike looks killer – check that custom-painted Deda SC stem! Between the Campagnolo 11-speed, Lightweight Standards, and frame, the bike weighs in well under 15lbs and that’s including pedals and cages too.
Get your Friday’s frimp in below.
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The last time we were in Boston, we stopped by Superb Bicycle and did some serious frimping; the track bikes there are gorgeous. Have a look at this Cinelli Mash Histogram build from Superb. More photos below and some more info on this killer alloy track bike on the Superb site.
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When Chris, Ed and I were riding around Boston last Sunday, we stopped by Superb and were met with this fleet of pristine (and mostly NFS) track bikes. Check out that Molteni Merckx Colnago! Photo via Superb.
-Brian
photos: Peter Wadsworth
A while back Hunt had a few of his bikes featured at Select Design’s Crank – a cycling inspired art show during the 2010 South End Burlington Art Hop. Peter Wadsworth send some photos after the event but they’ve since been lost when Culture Cycles crashed this past spring. Here we have the Horror fixed and the Map of Burlington 3-speed Fixed cruiser. Have a look at two more shots of these bikes below and head to the Feature Bikes section for all the detail shots.
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Earlier this month, Hunt and I had a week off to head down to Jersey and the city for a little visit. While riding around Brooklyn, we decided to pay Gina and Shawn at King Kog a visit. As soon as we got there it started raining so we hung out inside and did some frimping and chatting. While inside we came across this wild tall bike they had on loan from a friend who’s currently touring on another tall bike he’s made – crazy. They told us to test ride it, so we took it for a spirited stroll down the block and over a few curbs – you’d be S.O.L. trying to wipe the doo-doo eating grin off either of our faces. Thanks guys!
If you missed the first and second reports from this journey, have a look at those and be sure to browse the other shots below.
previously:
Week Off Part 2: Bamboo Bike Studio
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Ahearne Cycles has been pumping out some amazing work over the last year, so whenever I see a new set of photos from them I get pretty excited to frimp. Here’s the latest build, a 650b Randonneur dressed-to-impress sporting some Campy, hammered fenders, a custom stem/rack, and a Inijirushi handlebar bag. See some more below and the whole set at Flickr.
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In just over 6 months, Firefly has pumped out a mass of beautiful bicycles and I can only imagine how wonderful they ride. Have a look at this titanium commuter! Equipped with a Rohloff, Phil bash guard, White Industries crankset, and oh yea, it’s belt driven. See a couple selections below and make sure to visit the Firefly Gallery for some more frimpin’.
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I know I’ve featured this bike a few times, but it’s been my trusty day-in day-out, do anything, commuter, scorcher and winter rig for nearly 5 years now. Over those years I’ve had my Country Road Bob set up more ways than a Mr. Potato Head at a day care center, and that’s the truth. Here’s a shot in it’s current state as a singlespeed sporting some Soma Sparrow‘s and a new set of Hold Fast‘s. More photos below and over at the Feature page. Be sure to have a look at what’s replaced my bike in the Van Dessel line too.
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Adam from Cycle EXIF offered up some great questions in his recent interview with Andy White, the man behind Fyxomatosis. He’s been known to build, restore, and photograph some of the most frimp-worthy bikes on the world wide web. See what he’s got to say over at Cycle EXIF.
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This post is for my Marketing capstone class at Champlain College:
Culture Cycles was an idea I had back towards the end of 2009 as a way for me to share my favorite bicycle-related content with my friends and to learn more about blogging and social media. My friend Chris and I would always send each other links, so we figured why not put that towards something productive? Soon after launching, our good friend Hunt became involved and we started getting to work. It’s been almost a year and a half since we started and I’ve learned a ton about WordPress, Twitter, Facebook, all the Google apps, Klout scores, SEO, and much more doing the same web-surfing I’ve been doing for years but using it to learn and continue learning. We’ve even organized, sponsored and helped coordinate multiple cycling events in Burlington since starting the blog.
Since launching on January 1, 2010, we’ve switched from a Blogger-based platform to a WordPress.org site after a few months of blogging; learning that WordPress offered better options for SEO and offered a much more comprehensive back-end that allowed us to further customize the layout.
Once making the switch, I learned more about SEO and started trying to optimize the site and our posts from that point on. As you can see from the chart above, the blue represents the 60% of our visits that came from referring sites, the direct traffic in green and finally search engines in orange at 10%. This was before we made the switch.
The chart above shows what our traffic looks like after optimizing and switching platforms. The blue now represents search engines at 47%, green for referring sites, orange for direct, and yellow for Twitter and other.
It was great learning and seeing the progress of the blog, so that was motivation to keep sharing everyday.
In March of 2011, the blog crashed and we were completely locked out. There was no way of accessing the log-in screen. Since my technical knowledge of accessing the site through FTP was non-existent, the site stayed down for over a month until Chris answered the S.O.S. calls. Since then, I’ve been trying to learn more about preventing crashes and continue to stay active through out social media outlets. So here’s to a fun year and five months, we’ve got a lot of exciting stuff coming up over the next two weeks. If you’re disappointed there wasn’t any bike content, refresh your browser in a few minutes or have a look at our Featured Bikes section, we’re going to be adding some more this week.
Thanks to everyone who’s been reading, commenting, posting and giving ‘nods’ over the past 17 months, this Bud’s for you.
-Brian
This is one of the most blingin’ and techy road bikes I’ve seen in a while. This Passoni XXTi belongs to Kevin Saunders of KGS Bikes and all I can say is this is what a boss’s bike looks like; every little detail begs to be frimped. See some more photos below and the whole collection here.
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p: Cycling WMD
Doesn’t get much louder than this! Normally I’m not such a fan of loud, flashy color-matched bikes but this Merican is built up properly; just look at that Phillipe adjustable stem. This thing’s worth frimpin’ for sure.
Here are some of the specs from Cycling WMD:
Vintage Philipe Adjustable stem and Bars
Chris King Headset
Campagnolo Record Pista cranks
Phil Wood BB
MKS RX-1 pedals
Campagnolo Aero Post
Richard Sachs Selle Saddle
Velocity Deep V’s laced to Phil Wood Hubs
See a few more below and the rest here.
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Anyone have any more photos of this stunning Colnago? I’ll leave you all with this until I can dig up some more shots.
via Flwrider
EDIT: Prolly commented with a post he already had in the works, check it out here. I had to add another photo….damn what a fine looking ride.
It belongs to Cooper Ray, a photographer and cyclist from NYC.
