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I do it all. You won't get some high school kid working on your bike.I have attended the Barrnett Bicycle Institute. I work on your bike no one else.

So you need a shop with a mechanic you can trust with your baby? I"m the guy. No stoned high school kid working on your bike here.I have attended the Barnett Bicycle Institute and learned my wheel building skills from DT Swiss. I have built touring bikes the have been used all over the world,downhill bikes that have won world championships,bmx bikes that have won world and national titles and bikes that have won crank works.My personal cycling skills and achievements include winning the Kamikaze downhill,Nevada state bmx champion,district #1 bmx champion. I have raced xc mountain,downhill,road,dual slalom,bmx and even indoor roller racing and started carson city's bike polo league(sadly that died). Warning this not the standard bike shop(sbs). Like all SBS’s they are salesman. They got to sales seminars…I don’t. The SBS world is now flooded with concepts on branding, store design…all concepts to make you buy more(to manipulate you). The second you walk into my shop you’ll understand it’s a SHOP not a specialty BOUTIQUE.

09/28/2026

Now I’ve been watching an older man talk about his attempt to get a title at the race of champions…as a novice? So don’t race locals cause 10 wins bumps you but wins at the gold cup races only count as local wins….right? Now a gold cup final win gives you 1 title win and race of champions give you 2 wins and then come back the next year win no titles and depending what you raced you could be novice gold cup a second time or race of champions novice champion…right maybe? Interesting…hey they make the rules game it.

09/24/2026

The MADE bicycle show is truly the death of the bicycle shop. Why you might say? I’ll give you my history of a shop employee/owner. So at one time there was a thing called INTER BIKE. It was the yearly convention for all shop employees no consumers. Damn it was fun. The event started in Reno in the 80’s and yes my first time there I got 10 friends in all Bmx kids. My boss would have been pi**ed but it’s what you do. The first show I remember Skyway wheels were DICKS so we made sure we took all the stickers we could grab and I told all my friends to do the same. I loved going a couple of times I made family vacations out of the trip of course my family did other stuff. So several years ago the world had the NORTH AMERICAN HAND MADE BIKE SHOW or nahmbs. This was people that made stuff in America. Simple but let’s get real all these people sold direct to consumers they didn’t sell their bicycles to shops. The consumer hunted out the person they wanted a bike built by went to that person and they sold you a frame so what happened? What happened was the North American handmade bicycle show died and from its ashes came the MADE bicycle show. It’s a show that is open to everyone. They’re showing small companies and features bicycles built by custom American builders and plenty of products not made in America. I have only watched the show on YouTube and it reminds me of that early INTERBIKE show. This is the thing that makes me say this is the death of bicycle shops …every company at this show sells consumer direct. Things like the Internet did not exist at the first bike shows back in the 80s, but once the Internet took over the world even people like me that loved to go had already seen all the products on the Internet. Why would I go now? Now the consumer can go buy there or just get the website and buy bike parts all day long. Brooks saddles one of the largest companies there sell direct to consumers. So why do you need a bike shop? I can remember at one of the last shows in Las Vegas seeing a bunch of customers well not real customers but a bunch of DICKS that ride bikes and always wanted deals a free work..DICKS.

09/23/2026

The UPS system for me they still do a good job. So today it’s TALES UPS drivers. Years ago when I worked at a shop, we had a UPS driver we called spaz. Sadly I think spaz got a horrible disease and passed away, but he was a great UPS driver when he first started that’s when we gave him the nickname spaz. We watched him run over a guitar from Lakes House of music not a good day for that guitar. When I first opened my store, the UPS driver looked like Superman seriously the guy could’ve played Superman in a movie. Come to find out he was having s*x with all the hotties in the complex. One day we saw a girl that worked at the clothing store coming out of the van with Him Dude was getting busy. Then the shop changed locations. I had a pretty solid UPS driver for about 20 years plus Dude was good on time didn’t mess around always took Nevada day off and went hunting. Recently, I think all the old guys are gone. It’s all young UPS drivers with headphones in…not much conversation. Just not the personality all my other UPS drivers had.

09/01/2026

Ok so 2 of the oddest trends in the off road world for me was the handlebars so wide your chest is touching your top tube and the use of flat Bmx pedals. Clipping in is just so must better. Now a nice set of Ritchey flats…the end is here.

08/09/2026

Ray Henderson passed away… Ray was a local skater guy that was good. My relationship with Ray was he needed rides to skate ramps and I had the ride and I needed a connect to get me on the ramps why you might ask? Well I’m a bmxer and most the ramps in the area were owned by skaters so show up with the cool guy skater that every guy liked because he was a good skater and most of their girlfriends wanted to screw him I was in. Now back then we went to some junk ramps but Ray would shred it up most the posers would chill on the deck or go inside cause they sucked and then me and Ray had the ramp to ourselves. Ray was never a jerk but his skill level scared off the others. Worked for me. One time we went to a guys ramp that the dad got mad at the kid and took a chainsaw to it. Dad did a good job and if you just put decks back on it would have made a great mini ramp oh and then the L shaped mini we rode in minden….that was so cool listening to KISS in the agro zone. Great memories thanks Ray.

07/09/2026

Sad day. Sergio and his with were killed in a car accident recently. I have known Sergio since the late 80’s. He was Bmx guy. As a Bmx guy in Carson in the late eighties we all knew each other. We would ride at all the local spots and Sergio was a local at the nightly legislature building hangout riding freestyle doing 80’s flat land and playing balance. As people get older and move out of Bmx I would see him in the shop now and then working on some bike build or project. The last 2 times he can in once was looking for a road shifter and then he was looking for a display counter for I think for his hot wheels collection. Sergio was like all Bmx guys into cars and had a beautiful VW bug and I think he had a cool mini truck…he will be missed. When I think of all the Gen X bmxers as some of us move out of Bmx we still share the same hobbies must be the Gen X spirit. Rip Sergio and Jennifer.

05/28/2026

Sad news a shop friend passed away…Kevin Shumaker. From what little I knew of him he was a fellow bmxer. Kevin always had interesting comments here on the shop page. Once I posted about 2 books about wheel building. I said how one was interesting and the other one sold by wheelsmith was boring. Well Kevin had to tell me he read the boring book and it taught him how to build wheels. To this day he’s the only person I knew other than my self to ever read a wheel building book. Funny thing I remember most of the vintage stuff he would post photos of used tuff wheels. Odd thing I love tuff wheels but hate to use them. I think they are one of the most iconic symbols in Bmx. Kevin could leave a good comment about this….

05/20/2026

Today in passing while getting breakfast at McDonald’s I saw “bleed my brakes for a burrito” guy. Now this guy was the definition of the “cycling weasel” all ways wanting something below market value…that means just wanting to screw me over. My interaction with him was use a tool,use the pump,want free technical advice and the always popular one “could you look at this”….thats code for fix something for free. Now none of this would be a problem if the weasel actually bought something,he never did. Now if this was someone with a real personality things would have been different. Maybe a person with a real racing background or someone else with a real love of cycling, just some good conversation about anything cycling. Come in the shop offer up a Red Bull or a coffee….but nothing from the weasel. Most of the time they don’t have a spouse…male or female…because the spouse would do all the work. The “cycling weasel” is smart it’s money is plentiful and well protected. If you do get them to open their wallet the president’s actually start rubbing their eyes because they haven’t seen daylight in so long but when I saw “the weasel” he walked in didn’t order anything and went over with a large bottle and started to load up on free soda…warning “the weasel “ never changes.

05/14/2026

Ok I did it again I made a low ball offer on this “vintage road bike”. Now I don’t know what a persons life is like hell the guy could be a gambling addict and he needs money to pay off his bookie…but the guy responded about how he has had a 500 offer so should I offer $501? Plus he told me he’s not in a rush to sell it. Whatever I don’t care just say no thank you or give me a counter offer. So I did go off a little and in a nice way I said….”thats a DELLA SANTA MADE BY ROLAND DELLA SANTA one of the best frame builders on the west coast he built bikes for Greg Lemond the only AMERICAN to win the tour…his frames won WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS with Lemond that bike should be hanging in a shop where people can enjoy a true piece of local history….you say nothing I the add about it being a DELL SANTA.” This guys an idiot it says DELLA SANTA on it. People sell bikes at deal prices all the time…my DELLA SANTA is beautiful with a spare set of wheels was $500…my LITE SPEED was also an amazing beautiful bike I paid $150 for it. The people I got them from probably didn’t need the money they just didn’t want them anymore. So used bikes don’t sell well right now unless they’re cheap. Tuff economy right now…good luck on the sale George but it’s a DELLA SANTA LEAD WITH THAT….

05/12/2026

Strava…is a simple app I can easily say F**K YOU too. Strava says you have 9 seconds to get the code so you can have the app…F**K YOU Strava I tried 6 times…smart move…app deleted.

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