I’ve always been a big fan boy, of Fast Boy cycles. Erza’s bicycles are beautiful, tasteful, and look like they hail from a classic era, yet with a modern take. Good stuff. Though I’ve only chatted with Ezra a number of times, I’ve always had a lot of respect for his style.

For the past 5 years he has fought with cancer. He is now auctioning off a couple bicycles he has developed throughout this time and donating the proceeds to the hospice care he is now receiving. For more on his story, check out his blog ‘Teaching Cancer to Cry’. For more on the auctions, check out Fastboycycles.com . The auctions end tomorrow Weds at 2pm, so make sure to check them out.

This past weekend I got to chat with Ezra a bit at the Brooklyn Bike Cult show. When I left the show Saturday night I said something like “Take it easy man”. He laughed and shook my hand and said “But not too easy!” So I’ll be keeping an eye on his “http://ezracaldwell.com/for-sale” page to see what he comes up with next.

Take it easy, but not too easy!

-Marty

As cross season approaches we come back to the dilemma of what crazy color combinations should we use. This year, after much deliberation and back and forth between Brad and I we decided on this color. Which we can’t agree on whether or not it’s a green teal or blue teal, or as our office manager Katty calls it the “My Little Pony” teal.

This is one of our teammates Andrew P’s newish cross bike. We built him and new frame while he used some of his old components from last year.

Neon yellow TRP brakes that matched our nutty colors last year now looks even better against that teal.

These are our Geekhouse V2CX rear dropouts updated for this years batch of cross bikes.

We’re going to have a lot of fun this year, and a few surprises up our sleeve as well! Stay tuned over the next few weeks for what we have in store. And yes, this new Kits will be Bright, oh so Bright!

-Marty

Henry T’s S&S Woodville turned out to be one classey build! Henry wanted a Rando style Tourer that would be easy to travel from his native England, to other parts of the world. His first trip was to the good old US of A for a 500 mile trek around New England.

The maiden voyage of this bike was from Boston to Pennsylvania! I started with Henry for the first 30 miles of the trip. After a flat tire and a couple wrong turns, we had an absolute blast! I wish I could have ridden with Henry longer, but had to get back to build build build.

Henry gave us the fun opportunity of what we call “Wildcard” on the powder. Aka, we get to choose whatever we want! He gave us a general idea of what he wanted, but we picked out the final color. This Pink/Salmon came out awesome, it was hard to photograph a true representation of just what the color looked like in person, but I assure you it looks amazing.

As always we used True Temper to, OX Platinum on this build to be specific. The S&S couplers looked super hot on the frame as well!

Again using the V2 Geekhouse Cyclocross drops, with added eyelet for rack/fender mounts.

Love those sexy curves on the S-bend stays. Really excited on how this came out, Henry is loving it as well and wrote this to us after a couple weeks of riding “I can’t say thanks enough- the few days in the states completely restarted my riding.” Thank you Henry, I’ll be hitting you up when I finally plan that Tour around England!!

-Marty