November Bicycles

01/31/2023

Today on the blog: Objective differences between wheelsets matter. Except when they don't.

I'm using the analogy in the title ironically. Which is to say I'm using it wrong. Vince Lombardi famously referred to football as "a game of inches" which he then qualified with "and inches make the champion." The cycling industry LOVES that concept because it gives them license to create, market a...

01/26/2023

So you're thinking about new wheels? Great. But let's talk first about tires.

I mentioned last time that a lot of the value we add is not actually in providing wheels to customers, but helping them decide which wheels will most make them happy. That's deliberate language - "make them happy," consciously different from "perform best" or "last longest" or "go fastest"' or "look...

01/24/2023

What color are YOUR hubs?

I've noticed that cyclists (along with runners) are unique in the way they talk about their participation in their sports. More often than not, we actually call ourselves "cyclists" (or "mountain bikers"), instead of saying that we like to ride bikes. I know a lot of people who play golf and tennis....

01/04/2023

Are the days of long lead times finally behind us? (In a word, yes.)

That's it. That's the blog. *In most cases. We're fully stocked on rims but our forecasting needs more recent data. It's highly likely that the rims we think we will sell the most of in the next few months will languish, and some sleeper hit we never expected will emerge. If that happens we'll updat...

06/15/2021

Some cloud breaks in the doom and gloom of terminal supplier lead times - we've got wheels to build and ship, and neato ones at that.

We've been a bit doomy and gloomy with product availability, and for sure that's merited when one of your best selling hub brands (I9) looks at another's (Chris King) 120 day lead times and says "hold my beer," but today's news is actually good. We've spent a huge part of the day adding build option...

06/01/2021

Seems like it's time to get out among it again, so that's what we're doing. We'll be at the Flow State MTB Festival with Ascutney Trails Association from July 30 to August 1. See you there.

For the first time in... a while, we're going to be an exhibitor at an event - The Flow State MTB Festival at the Ascutney Trails in Ascutney, VT from July 30 to August 1. We're just excited about the thing and want to support it, and wanted to go to it, and if we're going to go to it we might as we...

05/27/2021

Sometimes a blog comment deserves a post as an answer. Sometimes Dave likes to fat finger the delete button and toss good comments out with the spam. Today, the intersection of those two moments! https://novemberbicycles.com/blogs/blog/making-chicken-salad

05/13/2021

Spring may have sprung and the riding is getting prime, but don't be fooled the river is still icy cold. Good for recovery, I guess...

These Boyd Cycling CCCs with Aivee CNC Components hubs roll out today.

05/11/2021

Mud season is finally clearing in VT and riding season is taking over. We're full gas churning out the builds like these RCG/Chris King beauties headed to CA, but there's always time to sneak some riding in.

03/18/2021

Do we tune wheels to specific riders by modifying spoke tension? It's a yes/no question but Dave devotes about 1000 words to it anyway on the blog today.

https://novemberbicycles.com/blogs/blog/spoke-tension

03/10/2021

Today on the blog - How much tread do you need for gravel? It depends, of course. And because it's Dave weighing in, one of the things it depends on is tire pressure.

Though many of you (myself included) primarily identify as road riders - by fact if not by choice - the increasingly clueless and psychotic drivers on said roads, plus the allure of making a bit of an adventure of it, means that more and more of us are riding dirty. Of course in order to ride gravel...