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Easter Weekend Free Shipping
We don’t do sale often, the prices on our goods are already at a low point that makes no good business sense, and the big idea was that volume would balance it out. So who do you call people to...
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Coffee Outside Mid April Recap
I made it out more times than I would like to admit in the last 10 days in an attempt to get some “Summer” coffee outside pics for potential publication in a magazine. With that kind of potential on...
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Hunter Nugz and Paul Racers
In the ongoing quest for improving all possible Rambler build variants, as well as being able to answer customer questions with first hand knowledge, we recently acquired a set of Hunter Nugs from Rick...
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The Unglamorous Side
At times it may appear dreamy getting to tinker with bike frames all day, making, designing and testing gear, but it is still work. And then there are the real bummers, lost packages, time delays and...
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Rambler Blemish Sale
The most recent shipment of Rambler frame sets has arrived and I have made it through the initial QC on about half of them. Some are as close to perfect as I could hope. A few missed the mark. I...
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Berkeley Bound
Another 650b Rambler is headed to Berkeley, CA this afternoon. This will make the 5th Rambler in the SF Bay area, slowly creeping towards world domination! It really hit me while working on these...
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Docena Demi-Porteur Bag
What is a Demi-Porteur bag? Ever since moving to a bike optimized for a front load I started to push the envelope of how much went in the upper bag vs. panniers. The goal being that the upper bag...
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Coffee Outside
This morning was fantastic for a quick ride to the beach to brew up a cup. Our regular summer weather is filling in, which means alternating days of fog and clear. Every time I get out and do this,...
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New Dingle Speed Rambler in The Stable
It was time to add one more demo Rambler to the fleet. This is a 59 with a few fun details not yet seen on other builds. New Soma Cazadero 700×43 knobby tires, White Industries Double/Double drive...
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Pannier Hardware Decaleur Hack
With the first batch of Docena bags landing at their new owner’s this week, I wanted to share a bit about the hardware hack I have been rolling with for over a year now. I opted to engineer a rock...
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New Rambler In the Demo Fleet
The summer has been pretty good to us, and it was time to take some of that cash flow and use it to add another demo Rambler to out fleet. Until now we had the 51 and 63. Everything in between for...
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Topo and Docena Synergies
I have been a long time stalker of Topo Designs bags. They do really good stuff, simple, yet feature filled and made in Colorado. About a week ago I pulled the trigger on a couple of their Dopp Kits...
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Thoughts on Packing and Shipping Stuff
Getting the stuff you buy online is part of the experience. It has become part of the reality most of us encounter. At the low-end of the spectrum you have the small item from amazon bouncing loosely...
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Andrews King Cages In the Store
I have used a ton of different cages over the years at all price points. for years now there is only one cage that we prefer, use and now sell. Andrews King cages are made in Colorado from tubular 304...
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First Fall Coffee Outside
Life has been happening at an astonishing speed this summer. That is when I realized summer was over…I pulled the emergency chute this morning and headed to the beach for some coffee outside....
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Fender Mounted Reflectors
This is one of those things that used to be pretty standard on bikes that went away for a long time. It has been a side burner project around here for years. I have talked with CatEye, a few smaller...
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Rambler Stock Getting Low
We are getting to an interesting turning point with the business as Rambler stock is getting lower. But before we bore you with the details, a couple pics to tantalize you with what your Rambler could...
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Orange Soda Demo Build
This past Saturday we had a tent set up to shoe the Ramblers at a local cross race. That combined with a couple of other factors had me under tight deadlines to get a new 61 cm Orange Soda Rambler...
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Docena Presale for 2015
We are kicking off the new year with the presale of the first batch of the Docena Demi-Porteur bags. These are a collaborative project that we developed with Swift Industries last year, and you can...
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