Wednesday:
Wednesday Social Ride
(Photo provided by Greg from last week’s series of adventures that took the riders to Bussey Hill, the Arboretum and Grendal’s Den!)
The title says it all, a weekly social ride with a variety of destinations, geard towards fun and meeting other bike-minded people. Meet outside of Toscanini’s at 7 PM.
Follow the group on Facebook for more information!
“Strength in Numbers” Boston Premiere
This will be the Boston-area premiere of “Strength in Numbers,” the newest mountain bike film from Anthill Films. The Vancouver, BC based production company is behind previous movies “Follow Me” and the “Collective.” This is Anthill Films largest production to date and was shot all over the world, highlighting locations such as Nepal, Utah and British Columbia. The film features the following riders: Graham Agassiz, Adam Billinghurst, Anthony Messere, Brandon Semenuk, Wade Simmons, Rene Wildhaber, Gee Atherton, Matt Hunter, Cam McCaul, Andrew Shandro, & Thomas Vanderham.
Thursday
Black Falcon (“Dirty Bird”) Criterium
(Photo provided by the Black Falcon Crit tumblr)
7 PM at 1 Design Center at the Dry Docks in Fort Point. The rain is supposed to stop before this event, so make sure to swing by! Hopefully one of us from the shop will be over there shooting photos!
Friday, Saturday and Sunday
I know we try and keep things local, but this coming weekend has a few events that are worth the day trip out of the city!
Beast of the East–Philly
From the website:
“The Beast of the East will be a weekend long event celebrating the bike courier culture. Expect a wide verity of all the favorite alley cats, lots of partying, all the weirdest side events we can think of. There will be 7 races during the weekend, each race will earn participants points. The rider with the most points at the end will be crowned the Beast Of the East. And after all that is done we will hop on our bikes and take a 3 day 280 mile trip down route 1 to Richmond, VA for the 2012 NACCC.”
For more information please click here!
Satuday
Brooklyn Bike Jumble
(Photo credit: nybikejumble.com )
From the website:
“Come join us for the 4th annual Spring Brooklyn Bike Jumble at the Old Stone House in Washington Park – Park Slope, Brooklyn.
The park will be filled with vendors selling used bikes, new and used bike accesories as well as events to be announced.
This year we will also be celebrating the newly renovated park, as well as the continuing acendancy of bikes in New York City Traffic.
Please join us on Saturday, May 19th from 10AM to 4PM.”
For more information, click HERE!
If you want to advertise your event on our weekly event blog, please email Steph at srcrumley@gmail.com
After putting in a bunch of miles on our Sprint Prototype I finally decided it was time to build myself one. I had one painted in sky blue metallic and I am really happy with how it turned out. The metallic flake is very understated but when the sun hits it, it really shines! I decided on black components to offset the light hue of the frame and I think the contrast really works, and it helps the gum wall tires pop. I have been commuting on it a few days now and I am super stoked with it. I went with some larger than average tires because of the number of horrible roads on my commute and the stiff frame and larger tires really work well to give an efficient buy comfortable ride. To fit the larger tires I used the standard brake hole fork, but had it plugged before it was painted. Well here is the components breakdown.
Frame: Superb Sprint Size L
Rims: Velocity Aero
Hubs: Superb
Spokes: Dt Swiss
Tires: Panaracer Pasala Tourguard 32c
Crank: Sram Omnium
Chainring: Superb Prototype
Cog: Profile
Lockring: All City
Chain: Izumi
Headset: Vintage Chris King
Stem: Gran Compe
Handlebar: Euro Asia Imports Cobra
Grips: Oury
Saddle: Superb Prototype
If you remember from our last batch of Superb Sprint frames we did a special edition frameset in Kawasaki Green with a sparkle clear coat. Antonio from NYC snatched up the frame and has been carefully curating a build kit over the past few months and finally finished it up. Hands down this is one of the most beautiful builds done to date, and it gets me so stoked to see people building these up so cleanly and really enjoying them! Antonio built his up as a single speed and used some amazing NOS Dura Ace parts that really shine!
Here is what Antonio has to say about it along with the parts spec from his Flickr Site. Check out his flickr for more photos and super High Res!
“This is a bike I just finished building. The frameset is made by the Boston bike shop, Superb. This was the only frameset produced in this color, so that made it more special to me. It rides like a dream. Here is the parts list:”
Frame/Fork: Superb Sprint Kawasaki Green
Seatpost: NOS Shimano Dura-Ace 7410
Stem: NOS Shimano Dura Ace 7400
Brakes: Shimano Dura-Ace 7403
Levers: Shimano Dura-Ace 7402
Cables: Shimano Dura-Ace
Crank: Shimano Dura-Ace 7600
Bottom Bracket: NOS Shimano Dura-Ace 7610
Hubs: Shimano Dura-Ace Track 7600
Rims: NOS Araya 20A
Tires: Vittoria Open Corsa EVO SC
Bars: NOS Nitto Olympiade
Bar Tape: Brooks Leather Perforated
Freewheel: Shimano 18t
Saddle: NOS Selle Italia Flite 90s
Pedals: MKS Sylvan Track
Clips: MKS Steel
Straps: MKS Fit Alpha Spirit
Chain: Izumi Eco Track
There has been a lot of anticipation around this batch of Sprint Frames. It is our largest batch yet thanks to the amount of pre-orders we have had and how quickly the last batch ran out the door. A lot of the order has already been spoken for and frames will be shipped off to customers all over the world as soon as they are arrive here. There are still some left for stock, so if you have been thinking about grabbing a new frame this spring, now is the time! We will have raw polished silver and matte black frames, there might even be one or two special editions! The frames are in transit from our builder and should be here thursday april 5th or friday the 6th.
If you remember last year when Brooks and Vans released their saddle and shoe collaboration last year, here’s your lucky chance to still grab one! We have 2 lucky Brooks x Vans Team Pro saddles left in stock from the collaboration. Only 500 saddles were made and if you regret not having gotten one or thought they were sold out, you can grab #167 or #174!
