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Simon's Neutrino
Our manager and shop guy Simon decided to show off his Velo Orange Neutrino, an all-road (it's been tested) minivelo that fits well in an apartment. He also uses it as a winter bike, but suggests larger and heavier wheels if you need to deal with snow banks. As always, open images in a new tab to embiggen. Your name and the bike's name: Simon, and this one doesn't have a name yet. I'm taking suggestions as long as I don't have to hear "Nerd-trino" again. Your favourite Montreal resto Le Super Qualité Your favourite shop tool The TL-FC11 crank extractor from Shimano. You use it all the time, and it's the ultimate in functional, solid elegance... Your favourite meal Ma Po Tofu, or Grandma Winnie's Ursulines chicken pot pie. Your favourite part on this bike? The Surly mini-rack that magically transforms into a regular-sized rack on a Neutrino. Other notable parts you like on this bike that we should know about? Brooks B17 saddle, it's on all my bikes The 75$ Shimano dynamo hub. It's been through two winters and it's still going amazingly well. Herrmanns light Radiotopia stickers Soma Eagle chromed steel handlebar. Stiff! A Saint-Ambroise bring-bring bell I found behind a workbench while cleaning
Vince and his Cross-Check
Today in our staff bikes series, we've got manager and senior mechanic Vince. He crossed Canada with his beloved puke-green Surly Cross-Check and still rides it daily (except in winter when his 50kg rust-bucket Minelli comes out). Here's what he has to say! Open images in a new tab to embiggen Your nameVincent Savary Your favourite Montreal restaurantAgrikol Your favourite shop toolPark Tool FFS-2 frame and fork alignment tool, AKA "The Persuader" (BAM!) Favourite mealTonkotsu ramen Your favourite part on your bikeMy bar-end shifter that I de-indexed myself
Zach and Phil
Next up in the staff bike series, meet Zach and his red hot red Roma Tokyo trackloporteur. Zach is our in house sneaker expert, gets stoked on obscure bike parts, teaches us about trap music, and is an all-around sweetheart. Here's what he has to say! Your name, your bike's name: Zach, Phil Your favourite Montreal restaurant: Trip de bouffe Your favourite tool: Soft jaw axle vise Your favourite meal: Poutine Your favourite part on your bike: VO Porteur rack Great pics as always by a guy who doesn't ride a track bike, @jochhoo
Luc's Polyvalent With No Specific Use
Open images in a new tab for big Prior to building this bike, I had an extensive history of buying/building bikes that I didn’t actually need on impulse. I’ve had the 29er off-road touring drop bar bike that I never actually used, I bought a new, lugged Marinoni road frame that literally sat in my closet for a year before i sold it off to make room, a gravel bike (whatever that means) that I rode under a dozen times and that I ended up selling for half of what I paid for it (along with incredible, like-new SunTour bar-end shifters which I think about every now and then when I need a reminder that selling a bike on an impulse is just as dumb as buying one), etc. And so, when came the time to build my Polyvalent, my goal was primarily to build a bike that I would use every day, whatever the weather, that had no specific use, i.e. not a touring bike, not a road bike, not a gravel bike, not an off-road-all-road-bikepacking-grinder-whatever - just a bike that I could go to work with, get groceries with, ride up to the Mont-Royal belvedere to drink a couple beers with co-workers after shifts, or, who knows, go out touring for a couple days with, if the opportunity arose. For the parts I decided to go for a classic, timeless, unapologetically un-trendy build with a bit of an ‘I have read way too much Grant Petersen’ touch. I get teased sometimes at the shop for buying parts that I can barely afford, but I have a profound hatred for planned obsolescence and so I tend to buy parts that will definitely outlive my bike and, hopefully, me. For the nerdy bit, most things that can be Nitto are (except for the bottle cage but not for lack of wanting one), the crankset is a Sugino Alpina2 - brace yourselves - triple, and I went for an IRD Tenacity cup-and-cone square taper bottom bracket that is serviceable and regreaseable and rebearingable and all of that good stuff. I’ve never owned a bike with 26-inch wheels before so Julian at the shop was very helpful on giving me advice on what rims to get: good ol’ Sun Ringle Rhyno Lites in 36h, laced (with the help of wheel-wizard JD at the shop because I think I’m way better at lacing wheels than I actually am) with double butted Sapim spokes to a Deore XT hub in the rear and a Shutter Precision Dynamo hub in the front. The saddle is a leather-less Brooks C17 Carved which I absolutely adore, the bar tape is some leather-less Fizik that I kept for a year after taking it off a bar that I sold to Simon at the shop. The front rack is a Soma Demi-Porteur, the basket is a chrome Wald 137 (with the attachments to mount it on your handlebars still on, because I love how angry it makes some people at the shop that i didn’t just take 5 minutes to grind them off) and the dynamo light is some 15$ led-thingy that JD lent me last year, which i doubt he even wants back because it’s terrible. The headset is a Campagnolo Record I had bought a couple of years ago for another bike without measuring my stack height so it had been sitting unused in a drawer forever. All of this stuff put together with fun bits like Silver bar-end shifters, MKS Gamma pedals, Yokozuna Compressionless housing and new-old-school Shimano aero brake levers. Since these photos were taken, I’ve changed the Deore Rear derailleur for a silver Altus (because it’s silver, but also because the Deore, in my famously not-so-humble opinion, looks absolutely horrendous, and also because I can’t help myself but show the world how much of a Riv fanboy I am) ; I’ve hand-painted an accent-aigu on the Velo Orange logo (vÉlo orange) (if anyone from VO reads this, there’s a typo on your logo, btw) and I’ve added leatherless flaps made by Honjo for SimWorks to the fenders. I absolutely love this bike, every part of it. Vélo Orange did a fantastic job at making the perfect blend of a classic and a modern frame and I’m kinda bummed they won’t be making it anymore. I hope I get to ride it to my native Péninsule Acadienne in New-Brunswick at some point when/if all of these pandemic shenanigans are over. Thank you to the good people at Cycle C&L for giving me the opportunity to talk your screen off about my bike. This has been fun, I hope to see y’all at the shop so we can talk forever about how indexed front derailleurs are dumb and how John Prine is the most underrated singer-songwriter of his generation. Love, Luc-Antoine Photos by one-man Specialized refurbishing machine Jonathan Chhun