Custom Hybrid

When I think about a typical custom bicycle what usually come to mind is a road, cross, touring, or mountain bike.  This is not a “typical” custom bike, it’s Robey’s vision of a performance hybrid that came to life in the A-train Cycles shop.

Some of the top features include:

• Simple and easy to use Shimano Alfine 11 rear hub
• Super slack seat angle so you are able to touch the ground while seated
• Upright riding position
• Steering that is quicker and more lively than a typical hybrid
• Neon yellow paint (these photos don’t capture the intensity of this color)
• Paragon Machine Works rocker dropouts

More photos can be found on my flickr HERE.

 

Tom being awesome

Mr. Tom Lais received his new A-TRAIN road bike late Friday night, two days later he reports that he has logged 235 joyful miles on his new ride and he sent me this picture to prove it.  Way to be awesome Tom!

 

Thanks fat-bike.com!

This last February I got the opportunity to sit down and chat with Gomez for fat-bike.com.  If you are in to fat bikes this is the website for you, it cuts through the BS cluttering many fat bike forums and provides you with all the information you could want about all things fat bike.  A big thanks to Gomez and the fat-bike.com team for providing such an awesome resource for the growing fat tire cycling community.

You can read the full interview with A-train Cycles HERE.

Stainless Cyclocross Bike

Good things are happening at A-train Cycles, take a look–I hope you agree.  This stainless steel cyclocross frame is built from USA made KVA stainless tubing and is complimented by a Chris King headset and a Enve carbon cyclocross fork.  Frame, fork, and headset are all made in the United States.  A noteworthy feature of this frame is the S&S travel couplers, these allows the frame to be broken in half for easy traveling.  (For more information on S&S coupler installations services read my blog HERE.)  Polished head tube lugs, front derailleur braze-on and rear dropouts add some beautiful (and shiny) contrast to the brushed finish of the rest of the frame.

More photos of this bike on my Flickr HERE

Bicycle Travel Couplers

A-train Cycles is proud to now offer bicycle torque couplers made by S and S machine (sometimes called S&S couplers.)  S&S couplers are precision lugs that are installed in your frame that allow you to break the frame into two pieces with a turn of a wrench.  The purpose of this is to allow you to be able to pack your complete bicycle in a case that is small enough to be considered regular checked baggage on your favorite airline.  Fees that airlines charge vary greatly, but to bring a non-couplered bike on a plane could cost anywhere from $50 on some of the smaller airlines to $200 on some of the bigger airlines. That’s up to $400 round trip!

• Two couplers for a bike that I am building you–  $400
• Two couplers retrofitted on a bike that you currently own– $475 (this does not include any paint work)

This pricing includes professional installation and the S&S coupler wrench.

A few S&S coupler highlights:

• If you travel and you want to bring your bicycle they will pay for themselves very quickly.
• They are strong.  Testing done by Sands Machine has shown that the couplers are stronger that a Reynolds 531 tube, meaning the tube will buckle before the interface of the coupler fails.
• Made in the USA
• Made from stainless steel so they will never rust.

For more information feel free to contact me or take a look around the Sands Machine website.