This is long overdue. I like to clean up the shop twice a year and clear out the odds and ends. The items fall into a few categories–sometimes I misorder items by punching in a wrong part number and it isn’t worth it to ship the item back; same thing with slightly damaged parts. Others were special ordered by people I’ve never heard from again while some are samples I used for a little while to test whether I’d like to stock the item or not.  Still others are personal bicycles or parts I need to move along and lastly there are parts that just haven’t sold for some reason or other. The winter ‘08 edition of this sale never happened and our new baby will be here in a couple of weeks, so this edition of the sale has more items than usual.  I’ve tried to be ruthless and I haven’t spared any unnecessary items.

Everything is in good working order. Most items are new or hardly used. Everything is priced to sell quickly.

Go here to browse the items. The list is long is dwindling quickly.

We have a baby due on August 8th, and since I work alone the shop will be closing sometime around then for an indeterminate amount of time. We’ll have to play it by ear. Expect us to be completely shut down for a couple of days. I’ll leave a note on the blog when I shut down for the new arrival.

Although most of my wheels are custom built to order, I’ve decided to begin pre-building a selection of my most requested wheels so they’re ready for immediate shipment. This will allow customers to avoid the wheelbuilding queue and the wheels will ship same day as long as they’re ordered by 4pm EST (next day otherwise).

Prices are identical to custom wheels with the same components, although I’m including free cloth rim tape on these to save you a couple bucks. These wheels are built to the same standards as all my wheels, and are covered by my lifetime guarantee. You might be able to find wheels built with similar components that are hurriedly “handbuilt” at production houses (they are laced and pre-tensioned by machine), and I’m not saying those wheels won’t work or hold up. But I can promise you won’t find better built wheels than these, and if you ever have any problems with the wheel components you can talk to one person–me–who will take care of the problem.

The first wheel is a 650B dynamo front wheel built with the Shimano DH-3N72 hub, Velocity Synergy rim, and Wheelsmith double-butted spokes.

I’ll add to the selection as time allows. Next up will likely be a matching rear with a Deore LX hub, then the same with a Tiagra hub so that 650B riders can choose between a 135mm and 130mm rear hub.

I’d love your opinions on what I should add after those two. 650B internal gear hub perhaps. Than onto some 700C wheels.

Two new products arrived today.  One is an item whose absence I’ve often rued when building bicycles–attractive cable housing clips from Dia-Compe.  If you’re using an internal gear hub, or have a brake cable running to your rear wheel, you previously had to use unsightly zip ties or the really pricey NOS Campy clips.  These are 1/3 of the price of the Campy clips, plus they come in three different diameters to fit just about any steel frame’s downtube, toptube, or seatube. (The Campy were only made to fit the toptube).

We also received some VO Croissant Saddlebags.  Attractive and affordable, these medium sized bags are big enough to hold your spare tube, tools, as well as food for an all-day ride.

Just before the website went up we added to our stock of Brooks saddles.  We’re stocking many more Brooks than we were before, and we’d like to you know . . . sell them–so keep it in mind.

If you’re wondering where things like tools, lubricants, and waterbottle cages are they aren’t on the site yet.  They are in line and I’ll get them up as soon as possible.  I remember something everyday that we have in stock at the store but isn’t on the site.

Departures from our regular hours are as follow:

• We will be open on the 3rd, but will close at 4pm instead of the usual 6pm Friday closing time.
• We will not be open on the 4th.

Have a good Fourth of July.