CCCX Nor-Cal-Nevada districts

Lots of success at the districts last weekend. Keegan Pelton and Remy Schmidt are new district champions in the juniors. Silver medals were won by Dan English, Kai Yee , Enzo Sapjnikoff and Kathleen Bortolussi. Bronze medals were won by Matt Werner, Mac Tomkins, Nate Vahlberg, Sarah Jordan, Eric Werner, Kyle Taylor and Paul Sadoff.

Just off the podium were Cullen Keefe at 4th, Joey Kochlacs, Jayden Cheung at 5th, Nate Barton 5th in the elite.  All in all, we had tremendous success considering many of the team were not present. 

In a few weeks many of these folks and others will go to Tacoma, Wa. for the nationals. There they will meet up with people who were not around for last weeks race. It should be a great week in December for the team-we must have at least 7 entrants in the single speed category alone. There's a good chance that we will be the largest team from Nor-Cal so every day you'll have a chance to see our racers on the course. 

650 MTN for sale $ 1,800

 This one will fit a rider 5'7"-5'8". It is mostly XT with Stan's rims and a King headset. The components are nice throughout and the bike is really clean. Get in touch with me at the shop if you want to check it out. The frame alone would cost you $ 1,750. This has a Fox fork that is about $ 1,000. Its silly cheap for a bike like this.

 The frame is made from Easton 7005 and has the 44 MM ID head tube foe the tapered steerer. The 1x11 drive train is nearly new so it should be trouble free for a long time.

Shop number is 831-429-8010.  or email paul@rocklobstercycles.com

Alfie step-through town bike for a local

 This is the latest edition of this bike. I started building these in 2006- I can't say that I have made very many of them but I am always keen to try to make them have better features. This one has the Shimano Alfine-11 parts group with hydraulic disc brakes. The rims are Stan's but I did not set it up tubeless. This one takes up to 700x40 tires......actually it might even fit 45's. The Brooks saddle is a must along with the headlamp which is run by the front dynamo hub.

Steel CX/gravel frame for Colorado

 I still have to make the fork for this- a crowned disc brake thru axle model. This is for an old customer who has had a couple of my frames over the years but this will be the first disc brake version. It still has a nod to the old days with the smaller head tube and brazed on collars.

 This frame comes in at just a hair over 4 lbs. so it isn't a heavy steel frame.

Two more days until race day !

Winners of the elite races and single speed races will get the horn trophy- normally only something at a Rock Lobster cup race , Surf City will be presenting these to the winners Sunday afternoon. The flyover is built, the course is being built. It should be bumpy and rustic in the Santa Cruz tradition that in the case of Surf City goes back 41 years.

Steel disc brake road frame for Monterey, Calif.

 This type of frame is getting to be more popular in the last couple of years. I make the frame out of a mix of Columbus tubes, mostly the Zona and Life series.

 The hydraulic brake line goes inside the down tube so that it does not get in the way of the shifter cable routing. There's no cables at all on the tup tube of a frame like this so it has a clean look once it is fully built up.

This one will be paired with an Enve disc-road fork which I'll be ordering a couple of this morning.
The frame weighs 3 lb. 15 oz, only about 7 oz. more than the same frame in aluminum.

Steel Ultimundo road frame for a local

 I have enough tubes to make only three more of these so they will never be quite the same when I run out of the True Temper S-3 downtubes. That said, I'll still make the model but it might be a tad different in terms of frame weight and ride characteristics.

 The rest of the tubing in this frame seems to be still in production-being Columbus 'Spirit" and Life.....both are currently produced and in decent supply. It amazes me that there are manufacturers that make such specialized and esoteric materials for building custom steel frames. My thought is that nobody, not the builders, distributors or tubing manufacturers are making much money. I gues that we are all in it because it is what we care about. I am thankful that in my 41 years since I have built my very first frame that there has always been good steel available.

This frame is made from the very best steel I can get: Top tube is my last round S-3. Down tube is one of the last four S-3 bi-oval tubes. Seat tube is Columbus Life. Rear chain stays are Life and the seat stays are Spirit. The head tube is a tapered superlight from Nova. This frame weighs 3 lb. 15 oz.