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Sep 10, 2021
Sick Hybrids; The Fairdale Weekender.
It should come as no surprise that we are extra excited to have received quite a few 2022 Fairdale Weekenders.
After all, we have sent over 70 of these amazing bikes into the wild since we opened almost 6 years ago. All in, it’s our best selling bike and for good reason. It’s easily one of the versatile “hybrid” bikes we sell and I’ll get into why...
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Apr 14, 2021
Mandatory Reading, "Get a Bell Ding Dong!"
Next time you grab your bike to go ride, take a look at your bars. I bet for many of you there is something important missing.
I have a pretty varied diet of miles on the bike these days. Some commutes, some road rides, some times on the cap trail...
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Scott's custom Surly Bridge Club build.
Scott needed a bike to do a little bit of everything around town. Roads, trails, broken pavement and gravel paths, a bike that can handle it all. But most importantly, it needed to be fun.
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New Hours, Curbside Pickup, Updated Covid-19 Protocol.
In an effort to remain open, protect our employees, and continue to serve our community, we have taken the following steps to refine our existing protocols.
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Winter Training Series #1 Recap, out east.
On Saturday, January 25th a large group of riders set out on a 100-kilometer training ride to begin building up to our “200k and longer” series of rides that start later in the spring.
We rolled from the shop and made our way down to the Shiplock Park trailhead of the Capital Trail. From there the route meandered East on and off the bike trail...
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Jan 20, 2020
Winter Training Series/ 2020 Preview.
The beginning of a new year is always a good time to reflect and look forward.
In 2019 we spent plenty of miles exploring and adventuring. From backpacking trips and gravel races to 200-kilometer journeys and short rides to new places, it was a full year of two-wheeled fun.
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Endpoint/ Coffee Grinder; Gravel, Groad, All-road...
What the heck is a gravel bike anyway? Depending on who you ask it can mean some fairly different things.
I’ve never cared for the term and back in 2013 when I started a little bike company called Endpoint with my friend Andy, the term really had not cropped up yet.
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Lipka's All-City Nature Boy A.C.E. SS Cross Destroyer.
Sadly, three days before the premier cyclocross race in town, Mike managed to destroy ss frame.
This past week we just wrapped up building one of the all-new All-City Nature Boy ACE frames for Mike. Over the past year...
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"My First 200k", Guest blog from Thomas Scott.
"You’d think that riding a bike 130 miles would be murder."
I mean, everyone who asked me how it was, has asked with an air of incredulity, so I assume you’d think that, too. But maybe you wouldn’t. I dunno. What I do know is...
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Outpost / Swift, Summer Solstice Campout 2019.
For the fifth year in a row, Swift Campout is on the horizon. And for the second year Outpost Richmond is participating.
Swift Campout is a global call for folks all over the world to go bike-camping on June 22nd. Pack your camp gear and...
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Little Things Matter, Crane Bell Review.
Now that the weather is warm the number of people out and about is quite a bit higher.
From riding the JRPS single track to just crossing the T-Pot bridge, if you’re on a bike, there is a pretty good chance you will be encountering hikers, walkers, flocks of beagles,...
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Phaedra's Soma Buena Vista Disc, 650b Commuter.
Our story as a bicycle shop is really the story of our customers. Here is the story of Phaedra and her Soma Buena Vista.
Describe yourself as a bicyclist.
I started cycling seriously about 15 years ago to compete in triathlons. I moved from that to road racing for several years, and for about the last 5 years
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