October 2009 – Schlick Cycles

Posted on October 15, 2009September 5, 2010 by Greg

Metro Mountain Bikers Milwaukee Fall Ride

On October 3rd Dave and I headed over to Benno’s to meet the riders on the Fall ride for the Metro Mountain Bikers of Milwaukee.

The morning looked kind of dismal early but by the time we were ready to go the sky was looking friendlier and when we arrived on the parking lot behind Benno’s several folks were getting ready to roll.

We headed in to the bar for a bit of AM fuel in the form of Riverwest Stein for me and a Spotted Cow for Dave and met the growing group of riders.

A bit after 10AM we hit the road with a group of close to 30 riders.

The route for the day took was all new to me but from what I remember it was a blast! We mostly headed along the Menomonee River either in the culvert or on some really nice off road trails with diversions to the Valley Inn, Leff’s Lucky Town, Bubba’s Cave, ‘Tosa Hollander and a nice stop in the woods with, you guessed it, beer! There is a partial route track from my iPhone here but since we started at 10AM and didn’t finish ’till about 6PM I ran out of juice for the p-hone. I’ll have to get an auxiliary battery for the next ride.

I rode my Teesdale Mountain bike and Dave had his new Teesdale MTB as well.

Check out more Metro Mountainbikers pix on Flickr.

Posted on October 13, 2009October 13, 2009 by Greg

Elisa From Bike Skirt Stopped By!

It was a real pleasure to meet Elisa who was visiting family in Milwaukee. She is from Birmingham and runs the Bike Skirt website and works at a local bike bike co-op in Birmingham called BiciCoop.

Elisa stopped by the Schlick Cycles shop with her sister where we chatted many things bike discussing her city, our city and some of the projects at Schlick Cycles including the Shark, Smitty, The Zize Project, Internal Hubs and our desire to open a commuting and every day cycling hub in Milwaukee.

Elisa also got to witness one of my favorite times at the Schlick shop, the opening of a box from our esteemed builder, Tom Teesdale! This particular box contained the first 3 production frames from the new Superfast model. Very exciting!

Great meeting you Elisa hope to see you again next time you visit out fair city!

Take a peek at Elisa’s web site Bike Skirt which is about Girls, Bikes, Their City and Lots of Skirts!

Check out The Bici Cooperative
From their site: “The Bici Cooperative has a goal to create easy and equal access to cycling by providing affordable bicycle maintenance, services, and education, as well as a forum for sharing bicycle knowledge, activism and community.”

Posted on October 8, 2009 by Greg

Now I REALLY Can’t Wait Until Winter

I was perusing some old articles at Dirt Rag and ran across the following article:

http://www.dirtragmag.com/web/article.php?ID=606

entitled How to Make a Ski Bike (by Noah Koerper).

Since I have the old skis and I am hitting Dave up for his old Ralph race frame it seems like we will be able to get one of these bag boys built. I wonder if they would let us ride one at Alpine Valley?

Posted on October 6, 2009September 5, 2010 by Greg

Got the Continental Goodness on My Teesdale MTB

I had been using the TET mountain bike as an urban assault vehicle with IRC Metro Duros on it and liking it a lot but, for city riding, I’ve been riding the Smitty or the Simplified Singlespeed so it seemed like a good time to repurpose the Teesdale back to its intended purpose as a mountain bike just in time for the Milwaukee Metro Mountain Bikers Fall Social Ride.

I opted for Continental’s Mountain King in a 2.4 size to compliment the ridged nature of this MTB. If the 30-mile Saturday ride is any indication I’ll be using these for a long time. They were great! They had good traction on the damp trails and, in the mud, self-cleaned really well. The fact that I ended up with a few new scrapes and bruises was NOT the tires fault!

The Mountain King comes in a few sizes so you can tailor it to your rig and riding style.