Giant Cypher 1 Womens Bike

I just built up a Giant Cypher, woman specific 5" travel bike, and it looks good:

This particular one is an Extra Small, Giant suggests that is fits gals from 5'2" to 5'4".  

This is the same basic frame as the Trance X, and on both models Giant has made some very nice upgrades for 2011, such as: Post mount rear brake

And press fit BB96 Bottom bracket

And tapered 1.5 to 1.125 headset and steerer tube:

Giant didn't seem to hype up the changes they made to the Trance/Cypher much for 2011, but they are nice changes and the bikes look great.
We also have this model in size small showing up in the next couple of days.

At least we have a good looking jersey....

Yesterday Danny and I (Lucero)  participated in the Day of The Tread century, on our new tandem.  I was on the back.  The bike is a bit small for a 6 foot tall stoker, so I had a face full of Danny's bony back for the entire 100 miles... at least we have a good looking jersey.

We approached the ride with some trepidation, having both raced ourselves into the ground on Saturday's cross races, and also due to the fact that we had logged about 30 minutes on the bike so far.  But everything went better than we could have hoped for, the weather was great, we had a big tailwind on the long climb up to Placitas, and the bike worked flawlessly.

The bike we rode is a San Rensho tandem, a beautiful and rare bicycle that received many complements along the ride.  It was the first time I had spend more than a couple of minutes on the back of a tandem, and although the experience was intense at times, I'm happy to have done it, and I'm sure we'll be out terrorizing another century sooner than later.

The ride took us four and a half hours. We rode the whole time with our friends John and Brad, who were also on a tandem, and looking suave with matching Bikeworks jerseys (thanks guys).

Beyond that, we've just been knee deep in Cross season.  Getting out to as many of the New Mexico Cross series races as we can.  The races have been an absolute blast, well organized, fun courses, great atmosphere, what more can you ask for (except maybe free beer at the finish, but that probably won't happen until Bikeworks organizes a cross race).  I encourage everybody to come and check it out.

I leave you with this, which was obviously written about our dear Swinton:

Lynskey Sportive on the way!

Just got this pic emailed from Lynskey:

It is their new Sportive model, built up with Sram Apex.  This is the bike we are getting. Normally they send us frames and build kits, but they asked me if they could build this one and take pics of it for their website before we got it.  So the one on their website will be the one in our shop.

The Sportive is a really cool new model, check it out:

http://www.lynskeyperformance.com/a/pages/frames-products/road/sportive.php

I highly recommend buying it.

Bikeworks South Boundary Adventure

It was EXTREME!

We had a crew of 7 head up for a South Boundary adventure on Sunday. Parked at the bottom, and shuttled ourself up to the Palo Flascado pass, to do Elliot Barker portion of the ride.

It helps to have a big truck every so often.

Unfortunately, we weren't 10 miles in to the ride when Scott "got all Scott" on his wheel, and broke it in a very unfixable way:

Thats Marc and I making a valiant attempt to re-hab a blown up freehub body, but it was to no avail.  Pedaling the bike was useless, as it would just freewheel forward.

So, rather than doing the logical thing and turning back, hiking for maybe an hour and spending the next 4 hours waiting in the truck for us to return, Scott decided to "harden the f*ck up" and just finish the ride anyway:

We took turns helping him push the bike up hills, we towed and pushed each other along the flat sections, and then on the descents, Scott would hop back on his ride and proceed to school us as usual.

The leaves were changing, and the views were fantastic.  

Danny was looking lovely in the most worn out, stretched out, gnarly pair of shorts I've seen in a while:

And Charlie was looking lovely because he is Charlie, and is always looking lovely:

It was so much fun.

I have a GPX file for the ride, if you are interested in going and checking it out.  I don't think the route we took is the most common one, but according to my sources, it is the best way to go.

Lynskey ProCross! Fork Sale! Giro Helmets 30% Off!

Dang. We just got a Medium Lynskey ProCross frame in the shop!

In case you aren't familiar, the ProCross is wicked awesome. I highly recommend that you come and buy it.  It will make you fast, good looking, witty, it's amazing what this bike will do for you.

Also, we have a pretty large collection of forks on the wall,

We have Fox 40's, new and lightly used, a 2010 Rock Shox Revelation U-Turn Air 20mm Maxle, a 2011 Boxxer Race with custom Giant colors, a Fox 831, a Marzocchi Bomber 44 ATA Micro 15mm thru axle,  and a couple of used Marzocchi 888's.  For you? Very good price!  Come in and talk if you need something to connect your front wheel to your frame that goes boingy boingy, deals will be made.

And, lastly for today, we just got a mountain of 2011 Giro helmets in today, so all our 2010 models are 30% off:

We have about 10 helmets left, random selection, come in and check them out.

If these pictures seem unusually crappy, it's because Swinton bought us a $40 camera, and surprise surprise, it's lousy.  You see, it's the camera's fault that he looks like an angry orangutan.