Adjustable Seatposts

Posted by PeterD Fri, 28 Jul 2006 18:54:00 GMT

Do you know what this is? Click on the picture to see a larger version of this contraption.

Posted in Shop, Bikes, Service

Bike Build of the Month - July (Maverick ML-8)

Posted by PeterD Mon, 24 Jul 2006 18:13:00 GMT

Passion Trail Bikes specializes in customizing your bike build to your needs and desires. We deliver an equal number of full custom builds starting with frames from Maverick, Turner, Specialized, Giant, and Intense as we do bikes that begin life as stock bike builds from Specialized, Giant, and Maverick. All bikes are delivered with at least some level of customization, sometimes just a stem change and suspension tuning, but more often a bit more complex to make sure we deliver the best possible ride for any given rider or desired trail experience. Frequently we start with a bike or frame that is already in stock at Passion, but we also special order many bikes and frames to suit our customer’s needs.

If you are interested in a bike that is custom tuned to you riding preferences, download our personalization spreadsheet and come visit us for a free build consultation.

To show examples of the bikes we have built, I am going to try a “bike build of the month” series here (kind of like a calendar, but without the bikini models). Here is the first one…

Posted in Bikes, BOTM

Sale on Specialized S-Works Bikes

Posted by PeterD Thu, 20 Jul 2006 01:21:00 GMT

Time for a summer sale…

2006 Specialized S-Works Stumpjumper FSR Carbon, size Medium
Sale Price: $6,100 — $1000 off of regular price!
Specialized’s S-Works Stumpjumper FSR Carbon is very light (26.5 pounds with pedals) with the FSR and Brain suspension technologies, providing excellent climbing ability. And 5” travel front and rear makes for an enjoyable return back down the hill. Fox Talas RLC fork, XTR hydraulic disc brakes, and a mix of XTR and SRAM X-O drive train all round out this bike to explain why Bicycling Magazine rated this bike as the best XC Performance Mountain Bike.

All other Specialized S-Works bikes in stock are at least $500 off. This sale is on for a limited time only – get them while they last.

Posted in Bikes

Photos/Videos from ride - Jul 5

Posted by PeterD Thu, 06 Jul 2006 21:50:00 GMT

A group of us met for the weekly after-work ride on Wednesday, July 5. I grabbed a few photos and video clips while we were out there, and thought I would share…

Charles riding the wooden ramp over the tree towards the top of Chaparral Trail.

Posted in Trails, People

What's this?

Posted by PeterD Wed, 05 Jul 2006 23:02:00 GMT

Can you figure out what this is used for? It may not look like much, but it is actually pretty useful for some people…

Posted in Bikes, Service

A holey wheel

Posted by PeterD Wed, 28 Jun 2006 23:08:00 GMT

You may have seen this wheel around the shop. It looks a little different than what you have on your trail bike, doesn’t it?

Posted in Bikes

Summer Solstice and Beer

Posted by PeterD Mon, 19 Jun 2006 13:45:00 GMT

This Wednesday is the summer solstice – the longest day of the year. Turns out that it is not the day with the earliest sunrise (that is a few days before the summer solstice, when dawn strikes a minute or two earlier). Nor is it the day with the latest sunset (which is a few days later, and also a few minutes later than what we will see on Wednesday).

But no matter the exact date – this week gives us long daylight hours for riding without lights. So try to get out and celebrate by doing an evening ride.

We have been keeping beer from Devil’s Canyon Brewing on tap for a while now. Those who have tried it will agree that it is good stuff (Ok, after a long ride, most any beer will taste good – but this beer is good all the time).

They have beer tastings on the last Friday of every month (June 30th for this month) which are open to the public. Starts at 5 (and seems to go late), with live bands and such. Click here to get directions to the brewery.

Maybe this would be a good place to stop after a ride at Waterdog…

Posted in Passion

Skeggs and the Demo

Posted by PeterD Tue, 13 Jun 2006 01:36:00 GMT

We often get questions in the shop related to trail conditions. One thing that seems to be coming out from this is that there are some misconceptions about what is open at El Corte de Madera Creek Open Space Preserve (often knows as “Skeggs Point” or “ECdM”) and Soquel Demonstration State Forest (“the Demo”).

Last week, Charles and some others hit ECdM for a ride, and today we went to the Demo. So here’s the scoop…

Posted in Trails

Misc stuff

Posted by PeterD Fri, 09 Jun 2006 00:01:00 GMT

Just some misc ramblings for this week on MTBR socks, ROMP/NorCAMBA clothing, SF’s Tour de Fat, and the 8 Hour’s of Lake Sonoma Race…

Posted in Shop, Passion, People

Bike Builds

Posted by PeterD Wed, 07 Jun 2006 00:17:00 GMT

One of the areas that Passion Trail Bikes uses to differentiate itself is in the quality of our bike service.

Using building up a new bike as an example – if you purchased a bike elsewhere and wanted it built, Passion would charge you up to $250 to do that. That sounds like a lot of money, doesn’t it?

Actually, any service we do is based on a rate of $60 per hour (which, for comparison, is only about half of the hourly rate for an auto repair shop). So $250 means that we are spending over 6 hours building your bike (and actually there is often even more time spent than we bill you for).

Posted in Shop, Service | Tags "bicycle, "service, builds",, level"