Tuesday Night Racing: 7-11 Velodrome

I trekked down to Colorado Spring's 7-11 Olympic Velodrome this week for Tuesday night racing and it was a lot of fun, I think I'll be headed back next week as well. If anyone wants to bus/carpool down let me know. You'll need to get a USAC licence as those Olympic Training Center folks don't recognize an ACA racing licence as valid.

Velodrome Info.





Pictures via my mom

Cinelli Colorado!?

These are some sweet-ass bars, I might just have to buy them. Mountains engraved on the stem, Colorado on the bars, and blue anodization(?).

Probably inspired by the fact that Colorado hosted some kick ass races in the 80's including the 1986 World Championships and the Coors Classic.

Mosaic Cycles

So we talk alot about italian and japanese builders who make great frames, but here in boulder we are lucky to have some really quality builders. Today im gonna talk about Mosaic Cycles. Started by Aaron Barcheck and Nick Phillips in 2009.

I was over at their shop the other day dropping off The Ocean to get a tube replaced, and he was kind enough to show me some of his recent work. I should have taken some pics, he had some seriously sweet Ti frames. Aaron says that his specialty is TIG welding, but his lug work was impeccable. He was showing me a road frame made from Stainless steel, lugged everything, it had a sweet aero seatstay with hand carved lugs.

Everything he was doing was of the highest quality, best tubes, best lugs, and best paint (spectrum). Right now he is extremely busy getting ready for the NAHBS, and I cant wait to see what hes got in store for the show. So when you peeping the NAHBS coverage keep your eye out for Mosaic Cycles.