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Sweet New Company: PDX Wrap Studio

From the craiglists announcement:

Scoring points on the Alpe d’Huez, sprinting for the line through the Arc de Triomphe in Paris or riding the rainy streets of Portland Oregon? At the PDX Wrap Studio we take handlebar tape wrap jobs seriously. Period. Do you want to look like a nothing to nobody, or do you want to look like something to everybody? We’ll ensure that something.

All bar tape brand available; Deda Elementi, Cinelli, Fizik, Selev and many more.

Track Grips; any color, any brand

Custom sytlin’ and colors options that will blow you away! Standard, 2X, Witches Tower, Shellacked, Rasta, USA or straight %100 custom.

Always clean, always perfect.

Rumored wait is 6 months. Call now, and ask about the special edition Belgian witches tower.

Fig season is here

Fresh figs. Toss a handful of these beauties in your jersey pocket to keep the skies sunny a little while longer.

Fig season is also the time of year we finally stop saying “I’m really excited about cyclocross”, and “Are you thinking about cross?”, and “Hey, I can’t stop thinking about cyclocross” and actually put knobby tires on our bikes again and start riding the dirt. You know what I’m talking about.

It’s still hot, the trails are tacky and dry, and you realize just how much faster your cyclocross bike is than your mountain bike. The clip on fenders are still piled up in the basement, and you can ride in the evening until after eight. You think about your favorite race, and blood fills up in your legs on that mental lap.

The damn good times are upon us.

Pereira’s Handlebars

Prepare for some “Not Cyclocross” posts as our annual affair with mountain biking heats up.

These bars are like a beautiful time machine. Past and future, existing in the same time-space. Discuss.

Happy Valentines

Here’s some love for the lonely hearts out there.

Debuted by startup builders Signal Cycles at this year’s North American Handmade Bicycle Show, this is a custom steel rig, and the first cross bike (of hopefully many) to come out of Signal’s shop. Sporting one of the freshest paint jobs I’ve ever seen on a cross bike, this is the bike that stood out for me most at the NAHMBS. It’s got that special mix of speed and style that just screams “race the hell out of me, and then keep me in your bedroom”.

Take special note of the extremely rare 46 tooth Dura Ace chainring up front.

Read more about the bike on Signal’s site, or over at bikeportland.org.

So there ya go. Lust away. Happy V-Day.