Bicycle fanatic and very good friend, Steve Leibowitz, opened a bicycle shop in Saugerties, NY. Revolution Bicycles specializes in quality vintage rigs, modern retro cruisers, Italian steel road bikes, retro accessories, customizations and full service repairs and rentals. Here is a sample of some rigs that made people drool:
Vintage Bromwich made in Engalnd road frame. Repainted and built using mostly modern parts except for the brake calipers which are rare Shimano Dura Ace. (Let Steve explain when you see him)

Ventana custom road built with disc brakes and using tubeless tires. This photo doesn’t do justice.. this is one of those builds that look amazing in person.

Revolution Bicycles also offers antiques for the collector or for those just interested in the past looking for a cruiser. This caught my eye… I’ve never seen rubber pulley wheels on a derailluer, but then again the bike is probably older than me…

Check out the website, and visit Revolution Bicycles.

I’ve been riding my Specialized Epic for sometime since I turned in my Turner XCE to get the Turner Sultan… Soon the Sultan will be built and I’ll be riding merrily through the woods so fast the ticks won’t be able to hold on… but the memories I’ve had with the EPIC… ah, the memories…

One time during a race I was actually holding my own, when I snapped my chain. So utterly disturbed that I had broken a chain during a race, I took the EPIC and hurled the bike into the woods as if I was six-time discus world-record holder Jay Silvester. Then started to walk away, only to stop and say… “I can’t leave my bike in the woods…” I went back, with chain in hand and trudged through the thicket of the forest underbelly. I walked out with bike in tow. Only till after the race I realized I had walked through poison ivy… Aye, epic indeed.

So, I’m not bashing my EPIC, I’ve actually liked the bike very much. I just have memories like that on the EPIC… and now I can’t wait to start riding my Sultan.

Fat Tire Journal making a comeback?

I remember scanning the TV-Guide for the next episode of Fat-Tire Journal… a blast from the past: