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HAMMERHEAD IS MOVING!!!

cbaron — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 04:56:41 +0000

The Hammerhead Shop will be closed all day Friday, March 20th, while we begin the move into our new location. Our new spot is at 6706 Burnet Ln (not Rd!) 78756. Our plan is to use this Fri-Sun to get everything moved over and in place. If everything goes well we will be back open for business on Monday March 23rd in our new digs! There are many cool things on the horizon at Hammerhead Bicycles! Just sit back and watch….better yet grab a bike and come join us.

Thanks,

HH Management

Titus Demo Truck in Town!!

cbaron — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 04:21:33 +0000

This Wednesday (8/27/08)

The Titus Demo Truck will be rolling thru town this week. This Wed we will be setting up the demo at the 360 Entrance to the Greenbelt. More details below!

TITUS DEMO INFO:

This Wednesday 8/27/08
BCGB 360 Entrance parking lot
2pm to 7pm

Come join us for some fun on same great riding bikes!

Feel free to email me or contact me at the shop. You can also find more info in our forum.
Thanks,
CJB
cody AT hammerheadbikes.com
512-331-2002

MTB Pod Cast coverage

cbaron — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:23:16 +0000

Unfortunately, I woke up this morning hoping that the little “blue dots” would be viewable today and they’re not. So it looks like the SPOT server is still down. However, I did find a website that is transmitting daily(?) internet “pod casts” of the event.

If you go here and look for the MTB Pod Cast Episode CTR08 Day 1. At the bottom of the CTR Day 1 section there will be an arrow for “play”. Click on the arrow and listen to the update, its pretty much like recorded radio on the internet.

Have a good day everyone.
Thanks,
CJB

Tougher than expected…

cbaron — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 05:04:34 +0000

I got a call around 7pm (TX time) from Travis’ wife, Katie. She was not necessarily doing too well. She called to get some advice and talk to someone who was familiar with what Travis has been doing (and will be going through). She said that he got off to a slow start (which is what I had expected). The temperature in Denver was in the 90’s and Travis does not do well in the heat. For the passed week he has been feeling “flat” and has not had the best rest. She said at the 5 hr mark today he was in low spirits. He had run out of water, was legitimately (mildly)dehydrated and talking a little “crazy talk”. He commented to her that it was already tougher than he had expected.

During this time she was having dinner with his family a few hours down from the start and his family was fairly concerned about his endeavor(and also worried about her camping solo for 8 days). This was weighing heavy on Katie and she wanted to just get some of these things off her chest. She said she was going to drive down to Buena Vista, which is about 3 days into the race for Travis, where she would wait for him to come thru. I encouraged her to be positive and upbeat and let me know if she finds out anything new on they’re end.

Nobody said this was going to be easy……
CJB

The Colorado Trail Race begins!

cbaron — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 04:14:26 +0000

AND THEY’RE OFF!

Earlier today at 12:04pm mountain time 23 racers started the Colorado Trail Race (CTR). A close friend of mine and True Fab singlespeed owner, Travis Butler, was one of those lined up at the start. Today has been riveting as we have been able to follow most all of the racer’s via a GPS tracking device called SPOT.

The CTR event is a race that runs the entire length of the CO trail from Denver to Durango. It is basically a self supported time trial. The racers will carry everything they need for the entire event, only stopping in the towns along the way to refuel and get supplies. Travis called me last night to let me know that the guy he was staying with Chris Plesko has his entire “gear” down to 20lbs. Travis’ own gear was down to 28lbs; he felt pretty good about being so close in weight.

The winner from last year, I believe, finished in around 5 days even. Travis was shooting for an 8 day race which would put him down for about 65 miles per day. Did I mention that Travis will be riding a rigid singlespeed for the CTR?!

Please come on over to the CTR Leaderboard set up over on the other page of the HH Community section of our website. You will need to refresh the browser in order to update the new locations of the racers. You can also view the leaderboard in “hybrid” mode which will allow you to see some of the topo relief on the map. – http://www.hammerheadbikes.com/leaderboard/

Pray for Travis and the other racer’s safe travels.
Thanks,
Cody

PS- you can also follow some of the forum dialog about the race over in our forum
http://www.hammerheadbikes.com/forum/index.php?topic=201.0

“Hard Men” post: Follow up to Sherpaxc comments

cbaron — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 04:01:46 +0000

After reading Sherpaxc’s post below I decided to go back through my records (August 06′) and see if I could find my original email that began the “Hard Men” topic. Well I was in luck and its posted below. Feel free to chime in on the comments below. I’d love to get some feedback re:this topic. Its something that I’ve been really facinated with.

Hola compadres,

Most of you are on this email because we have done mtn biking trips to Colorado together; a few of you have just heard me talk about my “infatuation” with some of the super-ultra endurance racers who do things like the GDR (Great Continental Divide Race).

During this past year’s trip in Durango I pontificated about the “Hard Men” of cycling and what makes one a hard-man. Some would say that we are hard men for just riding our bikes as far as we do. We say the hard men are the guys who climb Kennebec Pass on a singlespeed (!). There was even a girl who rode Kennebec with us (& 18 locals), and while I would not consider her fast or even all that strong…she finished…in prolly 9+ hrs….yunno…I’d consider her a strong man too. I even bet those SS riders would call the GDR riders hard men. And we all know that the real term “Hard Men” comes from the one-day classics riders of the Euro peleton…anyone ever seen Paris Roubaix 2001? So where am I going with all of this diatribe you ask?

Well I’ve often wondered…are cycling hard men born…or made? And then next comes…am I even in the camp…how hard am I??? Quite often my mtn biking trips to Colorado (re) confirm that while I may be hardcore to the avg guy…or even avg cyclist…I”m not quite sure I’ve got what it takes to go looong, haaaard, huuungry, looooost, noooo sleep, for daaaaays. Well guess what? It looks like my event may have arrived.

http://forums.mtbr.com/showthread.php?t=220121 5-9 days, Colorado Trail, unsupported, during the month of…you guessed it…July! The organizers of this event are proposing a July start date and this coincides with our annual trip to CO. I’ve already done a few of the latter segments of the CT and while this trail is defintely not easy, its also not overly hard. It seems that everything could already line up for me (us) …instead of camping at Junction Creek for 8 days and riding out and back, we camp on the CO trail for 8 days and ride point to point. Sounds easy huh?

Here is a link to a guy who did the entire trail about 1 mo ago. There are some great pics & stories. It was this thread that started the talk about a CT race.

http://forums.mtbr.com/showthread.php?t=219730

Summary:

In all sencerity I bring this up to you all because over the years you’ve heard me talk alot about doing this type of thing. You all are my riding buddies and are used to my rambling bravado. I’m going to follow this thread and think long and hard about setting this up on my calendar for next summer. (even if I decided during last year that the hard men of mtn biking were absolutly nuts).

Thoughts?

CJB

Here we go….

cbaron — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 02:22:30 +0000

Welcome to the Hammerhead Blog Community. We have put together this blog community in order to provide you the reader with a wide variety of cycling information and feedback. You will definitely be able to get the usual details about what’s going on around the HH shop and cycling team. However, on top of that we have invited a handful of bloggers from very diverse “niches” in our cycling community to give insight and details relating to their (general) cycling exploits and endeavors.

Below is a sample list of a few of our HH bloggers:

Sherpaxc (Travis)is a dedicated singlespeeder who has a focus on ultra endurance events and this July will be taking part in the Colorado Trail Race (CTR)from Denver to Durango. Here in the HH blog you will see him discuss his training regime, gear selection, and overall preparation as he ramps up to this (and other) event(s).

Bear (Ted)will be our resident techie and long-ish travel FS guy. He rides a Titus Quasi Moto and loves his multiple GPS units. Bear has been known to do such crazy things as 90 mile mtn bike races on his Quasi while riding 2.5″ tires. Yes, he’s “different” but that’s what we like about him. Oddities are welcome around here and once you get the chance to read his highly analytical gear reviews we are sure Bear will end up on your favorites list too.

Chris Feltswill be playing the role of our consummate roadie slash…Master’s 40+ road and cyclocross racer. Chris has been a regular fixture in our local, weekly, and regional racing scene whether it be the Tuesday Nighter or State Road Race. We have tried multiple times to entice Chris over onto a mtn bike but its all been in vain. He’s a leg-shorn roadie til the end. Look for Chris’ ride and race reports done in a satirical writing style that seems more at home on the pages of The Onion or Saturday Night Live than here on the HH blog.

Breyburn (Beth) is the the 5′ 3″ tall tough as nails HH mechanic with the purple hair that 9 mos ago gave birth to a baby girl name Kate. Tune in to the HH blog to see how she goes from 11 day Primal Quest competitor to devoted mom, back to adventure racer. She’s smart, small, tenacious, fast and has been known to eat lesser competitors without warning. Trust us, you won’t want to miss this!

CBaron (Cody) is the Hammerhead Bicycles shop owner. He is also a part of the frame building trio called True Fabrication. Cody has a 15 year background in XC/Marathon and road racing. He and Sherpaxc were the only Texans to finish the Taos Double Boundary Trail race (DBT) last fall. Even though he has fallen in love with the ultra distance events, lately he spends more time working at frame building and a the bike shop than riding. Read about his unique perspective as possibly the only frame builder/bike shop owner in Texas.

This is not an exhaustive list of our HH bloggers but rather an example of the diverse cross section of writers/cyclists that we have gathered here in the HH Community section. They will be providing you with reviews, photos, ride reports and general biking glutony. Look for each of our bloggers to begin their first post with an autobiographical summary of who they are and what they are about.

Please come on in and stay a while!
Sincerely,
Management, Hammerhead Blog Community

Getting Moving

cbaron — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 14:15:26 +0000

Everything is growing here at Hammerhead. We have more stuff in stock than ever before. We have maintenance items, repair items, consumables, demos, etc… Even our group rides are growing. Do you like the new website? Even it’s still growing.

In all seriousness, there are a lot of changes that are going on around here. We are trying to find a way to keep doing the things HH has always done well and expand on the things we could do better. Part of this expansion is our new website, bringing in road bikes, and offering more niche bicycles. Expect to see a HammerHead Monster Cross frame to debut sometime this year. Along with these new things come some growing pains. We are currently seeking to add some employees here at the shop and we’d really like to be open longer hours and on weekends.

We thank you in advance for your patience and invite you to make any suggestions that you’d like.