Tour Prep

Its that time of year finally. That time when there is something on TV worth watching all day long. We are getting prepped for our Tour de France parties here at the shop. Our kickoff will be on July 2nd. We spend a good bit of time making sure our new TV is operational. We have also been showing replays of the Tour of Switzerland a few times a day just to be sure that our new dish is working.

Saturday we helped out at RIDEYELLOW in Bay Minette. Our rest stop was 9 miles from the finish of the 37 and 62 miles routes. The atmosphere was loud and exciting since a few of the University of South Alabama football players were there assisting cyclist. We can't wait for next year.

It's been a while since I've updated this blog

We have managed to stay very busy since opening the shop. I'll do a quick update with some pictures in no particular order. 2 weeks after opening Katie and I got hitched.

We hosted our first free monthly maintenance clinic. We ended up with a good crowd and had a good time. Katie has done 2 tri's in 2 weekends and ended up with 2 wins. Not too shabby?

We hosted a LAMB ride (loop around Mobile Bay). A few of us ended up doing the whole lap, only 6 flat tires.

Here is Katie pulling her custom Guru CR.901 tri frame out of the box.

Our group rides have ended up being a big hit.

Chip delivers a fresh keg of Sweetwater 420.

Our trusty grill keeps us entertained after business hours.

Game on!

I haven't had a chance to update the blog lately, I've been a bit busy. With a grand opening and a wedding spread 2 weeks apart there isn't too much spare time. Amazingly everything came together in time. We had a great grand opening celebration. There were times when I had issues walking around the place because of the crowd, especially when I tried to get near the beer keg. I ordered 3 kegs of Great Divide DPA and they all got emptied.

Afterwards a group of us walked to McSharrys and finished off the night. The grand opening was perfect. Hopefully the momentum continues.

Construction Update

We have been going full speed with the construction, we have also had many clients showing up. I've been doing many repairs and bike fits, it's gotten a bit overwhelming at times. Especially when they sneak up and knock on the office window. It has been a fun process and we have had many people show up and help out.

The inventory has been steadily coming in and the bikes are starting to get built.

We have a few touch-ups to do in our fit studio and we are awaiting the flooring.

Above will be the check-out counter,

The changing room is almost complete

Inspector Chip making sure everything runs smooth.

Working on the shower

I am currently working in my office (less than 10ft away from where the above picture was taken) trying to knock out some work while slowly developing a headache. We are less than 1 month from grand opening so I must have my brain rattled one way or another!

The shipments have started arriving

The UPS man has been starting to get a bit busy with us lately. We have finally started ordering merchandise.

The almighty keggerator has arrived! It shall have a glorious custom tap handle which is currently in production.

And finally the tools arrived too. Above is my double repair stand and below is my master mechanic tool kit.

The painting has started

We just wrapped up painting the fit studio. It just happens to be that today is St. Patty's and we were painting a room green.

Tomorrow it looks like the serious painting starts when we do the showroom. Hopefully free beer attracts some help.
I got a few test saddles in today also. At Pro Cycle and Tri we take professional fitting very serious and like any real fit studio we have a good selection (almost overwhelming) of test saddles available for clients to take out on the road and try out. So far we have accumulated 22 saddles but we should be over 40 saddles by next week.