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22 September, 2009

Interbike, Good Blog

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Interbike I'm off to the Interbike show in Las Vegas today. Not my favorite city, but it should be a good show this year judging by the ...
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18 September, 2009

Vintage VO, Lunch & Porteur Racks Arrive

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Typical lunch scene at Velo Orange: And: The first 50 Porteur racks have arrived.
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17 September, 2009

E-Bay and Flashlights

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Once again we've accumulated a formidable pile of samples, seconds, prototypes, and parts used on showroom and demo bikes. There are eve...
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16 September, 2009

Plans and News

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I thought I'd write about some of the projects we're currently working on. We've just approved prototypes of the new VO hammered...
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11 September, 2009

Gunner's Mooney

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I've posted photos of Gunner's bikes in the past. He's one of our oldest customers and bike stylist extraordinaire. Here are a f...
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09 September, 2009

Toe Clip Overlap Tricks

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Installing fenders on some bikes results in toe clip overlap (TCO). When you turn the front wheel in a tight, slow-speed turn, your toe clip...
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02 September, 2009

High Speed Testing

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01 September, 2009

BPA and Water Bottles

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I recently received an e-mailed press release from Klean Kanteen, those are the folks who import the stainless steel water battles we sell. ...
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31 August, 2009

Last of the US Porteur Racks, Updated

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We have one last small shipment of the USA-made Porteur Racks . These are stainless steel and un-drilled. These are still hand made in a tw...
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25 August, 2009

Nutted Brakes

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So many of you have been asking for nutted brakes to fit older frames that we asked Tektro to make some for us. This means that you can now ...
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19 August, 2009

Mixte Prototypes

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A few VO Mixte frame prototypes have arrived. As with most prototypes there are a few small problems, fork bend, missing cable guides, etc, ...
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17 August, 2009

VO Touring Saddles by Air, Updated

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We had to arrange a special air freight shipment to restock a couple of popular items, so we included a few cases of the new VO touring sadd...
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14 August, 2009

Performance Sam

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Sam, budding bike racer and VO order packer extraordinaire is going back to college. In honor of Sam's last day I'm linking to the v...
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13 August, 2009

Copper Rivets

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The type of rivets in your saddle is hardly a significant issue. But hand-set copper rivets do look rather nice. And, in theory, they distri...
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11 August, 2009

Fender Sale

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Since we just received several models of our upgraded fenders , we're putting some of the existing stock of old style fenders on sale. H...
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10 August, 2009

New Stuff

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We have a big shipment from Taiwan with new stuff including: Porteur bars! Much better quality then the French originals. VO toe clips Hig...
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07 August, 2009

Weight Weenies

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I've been thinking about weight today. I weighed the chrome fillet brazed stems and the quill stem actually weighs about 40g less than a...
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06 August, 2009

Help Wanted

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Dynamic bicycle retail/wholesale company needs warehouse help in order fulfillment, shipping, and stocking. Knowledge of bikes a plus. One o...
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04 August, 2009

Zen and the Art of Making Stems

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Like many growing up in the late 1970s, my introduction to serious philosophy was reading Robert Pirsig's bestseller, Zen and the Art of...
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03 August, 2009

Guidonnet Levers

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We just got the new Dia Compe Guidonnet levers . Many cyclists have asked us to make these, but the tooling costs were too high for VO. Fort...
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23 July, 2009

PBP Rims, Updated

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PBP rims are here . From Tom's VO Imports blog : For years cyclists have been lamenting the loss of the simple box section rim in a shin...
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19 July, 2009

Vacation Week

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VO will be in slow mode for the next two weeks. Annette and I are off to the Exuma islands for 12 days of R&R. Heidi is finishing up a s...
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16 July, 2009

New VO Info Website

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Trygve packs orders, helps manage inventory, and is our new web guy. In his spare time he's put together the new VO Info site. I had lo...
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14 July, 2009

Happy Bastille Day!

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Also, we an have almost firm deliver date on the 650b Polyvalent frames. They are about 90 days out. I will get additional confirmation and ...
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10 July, 2009

New Threadless BB

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I recently mentioned a new threadless BB design I saw in Taiwan. Much to my surprise a sample arrived today. Usually development on products...
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