Gilligan built this black Santa Cruz beauty on a long Friday lunch. It’s a 2008 Heckler with X9 All-Mountain gruppo and Rock Shox Pike. This thing should be a serious all around trail machine that can handle steep climbs, jumps and drops.. and haul ass on descents and single track.

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Update from Gilligan… indeed it is an awesome ride. Total comfort, total speed. It stays glued to the trail… except, of course, when it’s in the air… and that was pretty often today. It was the most fun I’ve had on a bike in ages. It was almost like cheating after years on a Litespeed hardtail. I am an old codger now, so I need the plushness of 5.5″ of air suspension.

Well, it’s a slow day at the shop today. So how do we spend our time? Perusing the internet for old photos of friends of course!

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The North American Handmade Bicycle Show is in full swing in my favorite town… Portland, OR.

Mike says the theme of this year’s NAHBS is “useful bikes” — that thought was on my mind today as I was ventilating an 8-Ball Stout with my new $2000 bottle opener. But really what’s most useful is a simple bike with a few gears, good brakes, lights, racks and fenders.

Y’all check out what’s really cool in bikes… something you can ride anywhere, anytime, and blow the doors off most of the lycra-clad wannabes astride their paper-light steeds. Learn to ride a bike in traffic and learn true freedom.

It’s cool to see all the young punks tooling around town on their fixies and bmxies. They are in it for transportation and for fun. And Please Remember: fenders, upright bars and flat pedals are where you started… and where you’re headed.

We are graced in Chattanooga with some of the finest handmakers of handmade boneshakers… Lynskey and Privateer. David and David can help you realize your ultimate reality bicycle.

*$10 or $20 for quality jerseys by Canari, Craft, and Hincapie.

I’m not sure this is even legal!

Quantities are very limited so hurry and get yours today!