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29 April, 2009

Orange is back!

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Orange Tressostar tape is back and we have it in stock. You may remember that it was discontinued by the manufacturer, but they seem to hav...
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24 April, 2009

VO Porteur Bars

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We just received sample VO Porteur bars. You may remember that we used to sell NOS Belleri Porteur bars from France. Of course Belleri is l...
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23 April, 2009

Production Rando Frame Update

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We built up the production Rando frame prototype with an old Campy 10 speed drive train and some, mostly European, racing parts. Please don...
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22 April, 2009

Grumpy Post

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Here are a few questions that regularly appear in my inbox. These particular questions bug me because I think folks should know better. And ...
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20 April, 2009

Spring Thing

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A few years ago I had a frame with horizontal dropouts that had the usual unsightly fender line. The chain stay bridge was set far forward s...
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17 April, 2009

Bending Forks and Designing Boats

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Before VO I started and owned a company where one of my jobs was designing small boats. The photo is of an open water sliding seat rowing ...
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16 April, 2009

City Frame Update and Notes

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The City bike is built up. I think it looks great and rides superbly. We may change the name to something like "multi-purpose" or ...
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10 April, 2009

Proforma Invoices

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Lots of proforma invoices have been crossing my desk recently. That's great news because a proforma invoice is usually soon followed by ...
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09 April, 2009

New Dyno Hubs, Skewers, Grips

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A few new items have found their way to our warehouse. In fact we received 52 cases of parts from Taiwan this morning and our staff is still...
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07 April, 2009

Challenge Tires

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We've decided to start stocking two models of Challenge tires. As you may know, Challenge is among the last companies producing hand mad...
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03 April, 2009

Sneak Peak

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Here are photos of the final prototypes of the VO production Rando and City frames. These frames, and the forks, should arrive here next wee...
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01 April, 2009

Two New Frames

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A lot of you have been e-mailing asking for a large sized mixte frame. The problem is that such frames lack stiffness. I tried to think outs...
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31 March, 2009

Little Things

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I often write about the larger projects here at VO, things like new racks or frames or bags, but we spend a lot of time on some very minor i...
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23 March, 2009

Nice Bike Bits

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Russ, The Epicurean Cyclist, applied toe clip leathers on his VO Retro cages with very nice results. Austin on Two Wheels has a nice, and...
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Taipei Cycle Show Update #3

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The new factory that will be making our racks has all the tooling set up and showed us production samples of porteur racks, rear constructeu...
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20 March, 2009

Taipei Cycle Show Update #2

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We spent most of Taipei Cycle Show day 3 and 4 looking for new products and found a few cool components including these stems: How about th...
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18 March, 2009

Taipei Cycle Show Update

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The first two days of the Taipei Cycle Show have yielded some very pleasant surprises. Not 30 minutes after getting to the show we ran into ...
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