Archive for January, 2012

Sunday, January 22nd, 2012

Carbine Sl

Sunday, January 22nd, 2012

The Carbine SL is the lighter , shorter travel little brother to the Carbine.

 

 

 

 

Portlandia Neo Townie

Saturday, January 14th, 2012

I finally got around to building his baby up 7 years later. I had built this frame years back during a little detour into the road market . The frame has been hanging on the wall behind my desk for the past 7 years collecting dust.The story, this past holiday season I was visited by my nephew Neal Harrod now residing in Portland Oregon. Neal is a talented young Architect and had taken a job with a prestigious architectural firm in the city. The apple didn’t fall far from the tree with Neal as he inherited some of the Steber creative gene.Portland is one of the few bike friendly cities in the U.S.and there has developed quite the sub culture crafting unique two wheeled works of art that are used as daily transportation as well as recreation.Long story short the frame caught Neal’s eye and during his visit we rummaged through the spare parts bins and built it up into sort of a Neo Townie rig. I am sure that Neal in true Portlandia style is cruising the streets of that wonderful city on this resurrected beauty , ride on!

Custom one off aluminum frame w/ easton CNT carbon rear & Aero fork

50 mm cromag billet stem

Syncros Carbon seat post & flat bar

Leather velo saddle

XTr 9 speed drive train & shifter

Single 44t truevative mtb crankset

campy brakes & Tt barend levers

Mavic semi aero cosmic wheels

 

 

“Tequila Sunrise”Custom 951 by I.S.O.

Saturday, January 14th, 2012


This is one of those special bikes that needs to be seen , true eye candy , bike porn , call it special as it is
truly unique.Drake from I.S.O. (Independent Suspension Operation) built this super custom 951 nicknamed
“Tequila Sunrise” for Jimmy Harris , San Diego , ca. No details were overlooked and an incredible amount of
time and planning went into suorcing parts , custom powder coat, anodizing, titanium fasteners.
All of us who have put together a dream bike can appreciate what has been achieved with this project.
Now it is time to get it dirty and hopefully we will see some more projects from I.S.O.

I.S.O. is located in Temecula , Ca 619-760-6261 and offer quite an array of suspension tuning options & full
factory repair for all major fork & shock manufacturers.