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Just finished up a beautiful new 61cm Moots Vamoots for Art in New York. Enjoy the photos!
Rolf Vigors mounted with supple Gommitalia Calypso round out the build.
Who can argue with a Chris King headset?
100% "Cold Worked, Stress Relieved" Titanium.
Moots bicycles are proudly hand made in Steamboat Springs, Colorado.
Moots' incredibly smooth welds as well as integrated seatpost collars are two more of our favorite details.
We just finished building this Pegoretti Duende for Jeff K. of Mill Valley. This is what I call the Green Arrow paint scheme and is by far one of my favorites. It's pretty understated as a frame only, but once built with mostly black components it pops...
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A brand new BROWN Chris King headset is a perfect match for the brown arrows. Yes, we will be cutting the headset once we know Jeff is at his perfect position...
Perfect tape work with the SRM cables.
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Jeff opted for the Edge Composites 24mm wheelset. Very classic, but also one of the best performing wheelsets I've ridden. The Tufo tires are also amazing. Maybe not the silkiest riding tire out there but absolutely bombproof. If you want to try riding tubulars but are hesitant due to the hassle of dealing with flats, this is the set-up I recommend. I have had a couple flats on mine and one sealed instantly with no loss in pressure and the other was a pretty nice sized hole which sealed after losing most of it's air but I inflated it immediately to 120psi and have not had any issues since. Much easier than any clincher...
Does your Trek/Specialized/Giant/etc... have details like this? Love it or hate it, it's original...
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One of our Parlee Z4's catches some late afternoon sun. Have a nice weekend!
The first one I saw was online. Just a picture. I read a story about the man who built it, and I looked at the paint, the welds, the straight-gauge tubing. Pegoretti. It seemed too old-school, too pretty, too artsy to really use. I wanted one to hang on my wall. As art.
Then I saw one in person at Chad’s shop, Above Category. This was a year and a half ago. He had about 2 dozen of them lined up along the wall. They were incredible! I decided to buy one; a Columbus 7005 aluminum 8:30am, 59cm. I planned on using it for social rides, thinking it couldn’t possibly compete with the featherweight carbon race frame I was on at the time.
A few months later, in December, my mass-market race frame had developed numerous cracks and in need of a bike for training I swapped all of my campy components over to the brand new Pegoretti. The first ride was a revelation. I never looked back. And now, after close to 9,000 miles on my 8:30am, I can say with conviction that I'm a true believer.
Of course I had some mishaps. The unthinkable happened, and then happened again. I crashed my Pegoretti a few times over the season but it kept on delivering. Above, my rear derailleur shows some wear from a slide in Stage 4 of the Mt Hood Classic.
I started with a pair of Chorus shifters. I wore through one, and then crashed the other, and replaced them with what I had on hand.
The bike as I raced it (usually with Reynolds DV46 Tubulars), weighed about 16.75 pounds, including an SRM powermeter. In training, depending on wheels and extras, it weighed 17.5-18.5 pounds. I won my first two road races of the season on it. Any doubts about an aluminum Pegoretti’s viability for competition were officially demolished. The first one was a solo breakaway, and for the fifteen minutes between launching my attack and crossing the finish line, I thought a lot about this man Dario who had poured so much love and expertise into the frame I was rocketing towards my first California victory. It was an inspiration, to say the least. I’ve since had the pleasure to get to know him on a couple of occasions, and my respect for him has grown with every meeting.
Coming in for the win at Snelling Road Race in February, 2008, on my Pegoretti 8:30am.
