This Weekend in Orlando

From Dax Burgos

Frame: All-City Drop Out limited edition
Wheels: Velocity Blunts laced to formula fix/fix hub (19t/16t) 
Michelin City’s frt&rear
Cranks: Alien w/47t ring
Pedals: Smac Innovations with homemade straps from an old Black 
Diamond climing harness
Seatpost: Thomson Elite holds a Sella San Marco ASPise K
Stem: Primo aNEYERlator hold unknown bar with the correct 4” rise

Looking good!!

My first shop on the agenda in NYC was Continuum Cycles down in the East Village.  

Continuum does a lot of cool vintage bikes and parts, and has an amazing collection of old track frames as well as doing their own line of bikes handmade in Italy.  Check it out.

sweet Merckx

shop cat

this Colnago sports a Campy 50th anniversary group

sick paint job on this Faggin

three Paramounts

parts case

If you’re ever in New York you should definitely make it a point to check them out.  Tons of cool stuff to look at and drool over.

We are proud to support the 8th Rocky race in Philly

wish I could be there :(

The long wait is over.  New Sherrif’s are now in stock at our distributor. 

Half of the intial batch is here now, with more to come in the next few weeks.  The available first run colors are black and silver, 32 and 36 hole.

Silver New Sheriff hubs

Black New Sheriff hubs

This is our first ground up in house component (remember we’ve only been around for a year and a half) and we are super excited to make them finally available to you.  We truly believe that this hub marks a large contribution to the available componentry to the fixed gear rider and believe that it’s going to absolutely kill the mid priced hub market. 

We’ve been riding them for almost a year and have had zero issues.  They’re strong, good looking, have super high quality Japanenese bearings, and best of all won’t cost you an arm and a leg. 

There’s a New Sheriff in town and his name is kick ass hubs at an extremely reasonable price.

Just for fun I was over at B-rev’s this week and got to take some photos of our L.E. red version (which will come out in August) and the namesake which helped guide the aesthetic direction

As you can see, some of the styling carried over, but this definitely ain’t no B.S. copy. 

Get em while they’re hot!

Packed up my bike yesterday and shipped it off to Continuum.  I’ll be out of the office and in NYC from Wednesday to Sunday, then off to Philly to hang with Bryan from Bicycle Revolutions.  I’ll be back in the office and ready to tackle all your emails and messages next Wednesday. 

If you see me out and about in NYC please say hello and introduce yourself, I’ll be riding the above bike and you’ll know me by the red rose in my lapel, also I look like this

yeah, if I were you I wouldn’t talk to me either

xoxo
jeffrey

Holding it down

Today I received an email from a potential customer wondering why our warranty period is 3 years and other companies’ are for “lifetime” or other periods of time.   I figured if one person is wondering that question, then there are likely others.  I was speaking with our engineer Adam regarding this and the following is a correspondence that he sent to me that I’d thought I’d share with  you.

First, we’re being direct and up front. We don’t want to gain frame sales on a false notion. If you are riding your bike, the manufacturers defects will likely present themselves during assembly or the first couple of rides. The idea of a “lifetime” warranty is a sales tool. What we are doing is offering a realistic warranty period that gives both the consumer and the shop realistic expectations. “Lifetime” warranties create situations where consumers can have unrealistic expectations, which ultimately can put the shop in a hard place.

Most frame failures occur from crashes, misuse, or abuse. These are not situations in which the product was defective. Thus, not covered under warranty. We do offer a crash replacement program. This is a tool to help people who ride very hard, are just learning how to do tricks, or fall into some sort of unfortunate series of events.

In my personal experience I have broken several BMX frames, some with “lifetime” warranties, and others with 90 day [or similar] warranties. I actually recieved better customer service and a better crash replacement deal from the company with the 90 day warranty [even though it was after 9 months of use].

Ultimately, if you closely read other companies warranties policies, particularly BMX companies and large manufacturers, despite any length of time, the warranty only covers defects in construction, craftsmanship, and design.

Wear and tear is never covered.

Trick riding is really hard on product, but if you ride within your limits and don’t huck yourself off of and into everything, your frame is going to last a long time.

The bottom line is this:

AC products are design to last and hold up under normal use

The warranty period is appropriate

We offer a crash replacement for situations that either fall outside of what is covered under the warranty, or after the warranty has expired

If there is an issue with a product, and it’s our fault, we’ll take care of the customer regardless. We’re not in business to rip people off, we want to produce the best product out there and back it up with a realistic warranty. Not put an unrealistic warranty on a mediocre product.

These are some examples of really well written warranties from companies who we think do a great job:

http://www.trekbikes.com/us/en/support/limited_warranty/

http://cdn.specialized.com/OA_MEDIA/pdf/manuals/OM0232_Warranty_r1.pdf

http://www.odysseybmx.com/warranty/

Sean Milnes- FlipCam Edit from sean milnes on Vimeo.

from someone calling themselves cyclops. 

digging that vintage Bianchi saddle and the celeste spokes and hub.  I had no idea you could get a celeste hub.

New Sheriff’s, owl, LE Blue Hubset, lamp, weird Japanese booze, first season Riker

Oh, what’s that?

That’s mf’ing William Riker (numba 2, son), first season sans beard style.

My sister had to give blood at the San Diego Comic Con to get that piece (she used to sell ads for a dork magazine, Scrye y’all).

Suck on that nerdlinger!

Chrome sent out a preview of their new collaboration with Krooked with the following picture

I was stoked to see some AC clips and straps on that rig.

my buddy EMO sent this over

look above the bike

AC is proud to welcome Boston/New Haven’s own Sean Milnes to the family.  Here’s his info:

Sean Milnes

City: New Haven, CT

Day Job: Barista, Student

Hobbies: BMX, Skateboarding, Reading

Bike Setup: Dropout, Chukkers laced 4x to Profile 36h hubs, Azonic bar and stem, Sram Omnium cranks, Holdfast straps, Odyssey pedals, Specialized Nimbus 38c tires, Animal Edwin Grips

Videos: Open Bicycle-Sean Milnes

Thanks: My wife Laura for supporting me, Jeff and AC, Josh and Open Bicycle, Tony and the rest of the ride Tyrant Crew, Zack, John Prolly for all the exposure and free shit and being one of the best ambassadors this fixed thing has, all of the guys that I’ve ridden with that push me to get hurt and break shit, Tom Ohara for being Tom Ohara, Ed an Lynn Milnes for birthing me, Amity Bikes and the Devils Gear Bike Shop for helping me out when I couldn’t make it to Boston.

Much as Mike Carney single handedly reinvented fixed gear grinds with his famous “stanky leg”, Bicycle Revolutions owner Bryan aka Fuzzy reinvents what it means to throw the bars.

Fuzzy Bars from Drew Leshko on Vimeo.

AC reminds you to shoot for the moon, even if you miss you’ll land among the stars

Our man Sean Milnes sent over a couple of shots

this dude is freaking amazing, it’s like the first time I ever saw Rodney Mullen’s part in Plan B Questionable all over again

It’s rare that somebody comes along and totally reinvents what is possible, or what cool looks like.  Here are a couple of other videos that did just that

Ever since the Almanzo I just can’t get enough of my Nature Boy.  Over those long miles I really began to appreciate how nicely it fits and how comfortable it is to ride  for long periods of time.  This morning I stopped to take some pictures of it, still dirty with Almanzo dust.

I am really really proud that we are able to make this bike available to you, I hope that you enjoy yours as much as I enjoy mine. 

If you haven’t seen it yet, this video from Gazelle is awesome.

Gazelle 1925 from Gazelle Bicycles Australia on Vimeo.

happy Wednesday

Was browsing one of my favorite photo/design blogs this weekend, Le Container (if you click on that link be aware that there may be some NSFW images) and came across these lovely photos of a vintage road frame outfitted with our 1” Big Block fork.  

Not sure who the photographer is, but I love the photos.

I know I should be over it by now, but I still get super excited anytime I see any of our stuff pop up.  I mean, I know people must be buying it, cause we’re selling it, but to see our products pop up in unexpected places, especially on such a rad blog always makes me shake my head and think “holy shit, we’re a real company,” it’s still a bit surreal at times.