• overnight from deerfield MA

    hi everyone. remember when I used to camp 200+ nights out of the year off my bike? maybe you don’t, it was years ago at this point, but it was my lifestyle on the cheep for nearly a decade. it is also how I garnered enough of a following to be able to now squeak…

  • Yuusuke’s Alumalith custom build by LaRon

    the custom build part of the biz is where the name “Ron’s Bikes” came from — but ironically it is what I have the least amount of time for these days. I will admit, even when I did have the time, this sort of process still took a lot longer than just plugging stock pieces…

  • my crust malocchio 700×38

    these bikes are the sleeper in the crust line up — presumably because of the strange caliper brake spacing. the front pads sit midway on a long reach, and the rear is near normal medium reach. technically you could run a 38 rear and 42 front — although the 38 rear would not be mud…

  • we wanted some Lebanese food, so we pedaled to Yantic

    a decade ago there was a Mediterranean bakery run by a Lebanese couple that would frequently have a booth at the New London farmers market inside Fiddlehead’s coop. being mostly vegetarian based, the food was just what my mom and I were looking for, so one fall afternoon in 2010, we visited their storefront in…

  • nutmeg nor’easter vol 7 in memories

    welp, thats a wrap folks! thanks all for coming out from far and near, straight and queer, you all had a good time, or so I hear … 500 signed up, and we had 480 of you in attendance despite some particularly saturated weather forecast. I have never seen so many soaking wet smiling faces…

  • Final Nor’Easter info

    Okay folks, the time is time! we will begin taking in guests at 3:00pm on Friday, and we have been requested to pack up and leave by around noon on Sunday. You can still get in one of these rides on Sunday, just be sure you pack everything up first. We will let folks know…

  • 2023 Nor’Easter info/update pt. 2

    Hi everyone — it’s nearly time for our annual bicycle induced foliage bath here in southern Connecticut. 5 days to go! here you will find some updates and info you might like and consider etc. first off, if you haven’t received this important document to fill out via your email, then please fill it out…

  • riding out of deerfield for a d2r2 sample platter

    on Friday I escaped (or so I thought) the wall of rain that swept over much of New England. I drove up to Bellows Falls Vermont to pick up the alumax frames from Frank, and then back down to Deerfield, to a field, right as dusk set in to cook dinner and get some shut…

  • 30th Vermont 50 MTB

    6 am start line — fun enough — been meaning to do this race for some time now after hearing about it for the first time after it was already 15 year running. back then I struggled to imagine what 50 miles of New England track would feel like as I only imagined the west…

  • aluminus MAXimus (different than the Alumalith)

    many of you sopped up the alumalust and cast your vote for this bike on the radavist alumiwars last week n’ change, so maybe you are interested in procuring one of these bespoke all metal, all American crotch rockets??? the thesis statement for this production bike was to emulate the geo and lightweight-ness of popular,…