Cleaveland Mountaineering Christmas Sale!

Cleaveland Mountaineering Christmas Sale!

Custom frame bag base price - $90 (save $20).
Everything Bags - $50 each WITH P clamps (down from $60) or $45 each without P clamps.

Things in stock right now:

1 new blue VX42 seat bag - $90
1 used blue VX42 seat bag - $70
2 new blue VX42 Everything bags - $100 for the set with P clamps
1 really really used(9,000 commuter miles) black VX42 frame bag for a 54 cm cyclocross frame (Vassago Fisticuff) - has new #10 WR main zipper, tapered front, left map pocket.  $30.
1 gently used frame bag for a 15" Motobecane mountain bike, main zip and reflective only.  VX42 white side out.  $40.

The two used frame bags MIGHT fit your bike too - I can get you frame measurements so we can compare the fit.

Here is the black used frame bag next to its replacement for my daily commuter bike.



And here is the commuter with the new frame bag - tapered front, fully padded, dual compartment, map/lock pocket, white side out for better visibility, and bright green webbing and reflective for more visibility.

There and Back Again, A Moots Tale

Here's a fun little story my wife and I wrote about her new to us Moots YBB frame.  Its a major testament to Titanium as a frame material that it lived at the bottom of a lake for about a decade and emerged in great riding condition.

Check it out over at the Moots blog:
http://moots.com/afternoon-ti/there-and-back-again-a-moots-tale/

Bike Access Adventure Climbing

Recently, two other bearded adventurers and myself headed off to seek our fortune and celebrate self reliance and the Freedom of the Hills.

Our bikes were laden with just enough climbing gear and provisions for about 600 feet of adventure climbing.  We set off down the road well after dawn so the sun could warm up the crag.

The bikes were stowed and we racked up for the climb.  We took two 65 meter ropes to combine a few short pitches, a small rack, and not quite enough food and water.

As they say around here, all you need is "A rope, and a rack, and the shirt on your back."

Bar bags work great for carrying a climbing rope if you make the rope coil short and tight.  My harness, shoes, and personal gear fit nicely in the seat bag, with more slings and such in the frame bag.

We cranked out a few pitches of fun climbing, including a brief bit of vertical bushwacking, and I remembered what it felt like to be higher off the ground than the chair at my desk in the engineering building.  We proceeded to the top and our rope gun had me lead the final easy pitch to the summit just to make sure I still could.

The descent involved some really fun bushwacking and scrambling back to the bikes and some casual dirt road riding back out to some great soup cooked in a dutch oven over a camp fire by my wonderful wife.