Get Ready For Bike To Work Day (And Share Your Photos)

May 16, 2012 Categories: Home Page by 0 Comments

Bike to Work Day is this Friday. And that prompts a question: Do you bike to work? If so, you should prove it — by taking a photo of yourself and your bike. Then share the picture, and we’ll consider it for a Bike to Work Day gallery. Post it to Twitter or Instagram with the hashtag #NPRbike.

(Via NPR Topics: News.)

Bike Chattanooga: Put Your Own Spin On It!

May 16, 2012 Categories: Home Page, Sucky Stuff by 0 Comments

Heart of a Champion. Hair of an Osmond

Heart of a Champion. Hair of an Osmond.

May 16, 2012 Categories: Home Page, Sucky Stuff by 0 Comments

Introducing the Tallboy LT carbon

Introducing the Tallboy LT carbon

April 1, 2012 Categories: Home Page by 0 Comments

Here's where we get into the flagship of our flagships. We put a lot of emphasis on the suspension performance and ride characteristics of our VPP suspension-design tuneability of shock rates for individual designs, superb pedaling AND bump absorption characteristics, awesome chassis stiffness and ride dynamics, short stiff links with really good hardware, durability, ease of service—but we get real geeked out when we can build all that stuff into a carbon fiber bike. Carbon fiber processes are not all equal, and this is not all just random "black metal." (more...)

Where It All Began…

March 12, 2012 Categories: Home Page, Sucky Stuff by 0 Comments

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Suck Creek Stars in a Specialized Ad

December 8, 2011 Categories: Home Page by 2 Comments

Well in fairness, starring might be a wee embellishment, but we are in it. Perhaps this is our 15 minutes of fame…

Specialized water bottles really are the industry standard. Unless your bike shop is, say, a Trek store chances are very good that the bottle you are using was made by Specialized. Well, in a mailing promoting their bottle line up there is a large two page spread featuring 9 shop’s/organization’s bottles & guess what, we made it into that. Woohoo! Bye the bye, this mailing is sent to bike shops all across this country. We are famous, sort of. (more…)

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Specialized Carve Expert, Bike Radar Review

December 7, 2011 Categories: Bike Reviews, Home Page by 0 Comments

Specialized has a new 29 hardtail out this year. It’s the Carve. The idea is to slot a bike between the Rockhopper & the Stumpjumper, as Bike Radar puts it “A fresh design from the ground up, it slots into the line-up between the stalwart trail-ready Rockhopper and the more race-orientated old man of the Specialized family, the Stumpjumper.” (more…)