by David Lafferty | Mar 29, 2024 | degrees of freedom
Chinook kits will be available soon! We’ve partnered with Innerforce to design our first cycling kit (and technical t-shirt). We’ll have a web store opening next week for approximately 2 weeks. Once the store closes orders ship in 8 weeks. So if you’d like a new kit...
by David Lafferty | Mar 24, 2020 | degrees of freedom
Today’s quote comes from writer and poet Stephanie Bennett-Henry. We saw the saying on a motivational sign in the middle of a Farm-to-Fork Fondo in Maine or Vermont a few years ago. As Covid-19 works its way around the globe, wreaking havoc on health care...
by David Lafferty | Sep 18, 2019 | bike design, degrees of freedom
What kind of titanium do you use and why? Our frame tubes are made from 3Al-2.5V titanium, which offers excellent forming and welding characteristics. Machined parts of the frame — head tubes, bottom bracket shells, couplers, dropouts, cable stops, bottle bosses — are...
by Emily Lafferty | Jul 29, 2018 | degrees of freedom, Travel + Touring
What does it feel like to complete Race Across America? “3,067 miles, 180,000 feet of climbing over 7+ days,” was the response of Kyle Coon, a rider on Team Sea to See. We all kind of chuckled at the very literal response to the race announcer’s...
by Emily Lafferty | Jul 21, 2018 | degrees of freedom, Travel + Touring
When Andy and Kami White sent a note in the middle of the winter, curious whether Cycles Chinook (then Granite Tandem Design) could build them a custom gravel tandem for an upcoming bikepacking adventure, we didn’t hesitate getting started on this project. Unpaved...
by Emily Lafferty | May 7, 2018 | degrees of freedom, Travel + Touring
We left our home in Southern NH on a Friday morning car packed and ready to ride. Temps at home were expected to be in the 50’s with a mix of clouds and sun. As we started to ascended through Franconia Notch on the way to the Northeast Kingdom, there was about...