Editor’s Note: This week we let Grannygear loose on the subject of what is the perfect amount of travel for a 29 inch wheeled bike in “The Sweet Spot”
There has been some loud clamoring for bigger travel 29ers lately, and in some cases, the response has been the development of five, six, and even [...]

Now I have the frame in hand and I have taken a close look at it. It is pretty impressive looking! I will detail out my thoughts on it in relation to some of the claims Gun Kote makes and give a pre-view on my build plans.

The frame was sent up with its original finish [...]

At Interbike I was shown a project that was in the works at Salsa Cycles booth. It was a “fat front” fork. Basically, a 135mmOD spaced fork to hold a wheel from a snow bike, or “fat front”. Popularized by Jeff Jones on some of his titanium 29″er frames, the “fat front” idea is something [...]

I’ve been hampered by some bad weather recently around these parts, (Temps 20 degrees below normal and lots of rain!), but I have spent some time on both bar options for the Elgokse stem and have the following impressions on these unusual set ups.

The Elgokse Standard Set Up: The standard Elgokse comes with the swept [...]

After my post last week on Gun Kote frame coating, I received a lot of questions about Gun Kote and the process used to apply it. Gun Kote is a product and the application of it is a process developed by a company called KG Coatings located in Wisconsin. As of now, all bicycle applications [...]

Late in the spring I was contacted to see if I had any frame sets that might need a new finish by Ben’s Cycle who have some of their Milwaukee Bicycle Company stuff done in a process called “Gun Kote”. I just happened to have a pretty beat up 2007 Salsa Cycles El Mariachi that [...]