Back to cream

It's official, I'm a sucker for colored bike tires, especially if they are cream. There's something about them that makes a bike "pop". And once again, cream tires are back on the Raleigh Crested Butte. Ah, Crested Butte, I have been through so many different tire combos on you. It's partially because you are one...

Crested Butte: Current Status

It's been a bit since I've written about my Raleigh Crested Butte vintage mountain bike. Actually, I've barely ridden the bike over the past few months, as I've been mostly riding the XO-3. But there's been a few changes to the bike as of late, and now is as good a time as ever to...

Raleigh Crested Butte: Changes

On Thursday, November 1st I rode up to Ed's house in North Portland to do the major changes to the Raleigh Crested Butte in one big "sesh".I was pretty sure that I wanted to use the Civia Dupont bars that I got for the M40 on the Crested Butte, but was still wondering if I...

Raleigh M40: Dipping into dirt

The Raleigh M40 glamour shot. Courtesy Anthony Bareno/Velo Cult.If you joined us here last time, not only would you have not been rewarded with a photo of Tom Baker on a bike, but you would have read that one of the reasons I got the Raleigh M40 mountain bike was to do more dirt riding....