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28 January, 2010

Stainless Fenders Galore

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We have three new models of stainless steel fenders. I generally prefer alloy fenders for road bikes, but there are good reasons to choose s...
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25 January, 2010

New VO Hammered Fenders

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VO 45mm hammered fenders are here and they are really hard to photograph, too darn shiny. The pattern is interesting, large octagons surro...
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French Headsets and Other Neat Bits

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Many many customers have asked us to make a French thread headset . Well, they just arrived and the first one was installed on my very own...
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19 January, 2010

A Few Notes

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A few new developments: The effort to raise money for Haiti was fairly successful. VO sent off a check for over $2000 to Doctors Without B...
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14 January, 2010

Minnehaha Joins In.

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I just recieved the following from Mike Vanderscheuren at Minnehaha: Chris --  we'd like to partner and we'd step up with 10% dona...
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Rivendell Joins in Donating to Haiti

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I e-mailed Grant Petersen, president of Rivendell , last night mentioning our little effort to donate to Doctors Without Borders . Grant imm...
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13 January, 2010

A Little Help for Haiti

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Velo Orange and VO Imports will donate 10% of our gross sales over the next 48 hours to the  Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontièr...
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New VO Wheels

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Hundreds of new VO-rimmed wheels showed up yesterday. We'll be putting them into stock today and tomorrow. All are hand built in the USA...
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Can You Guess What These Are?

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12 January, 2010

Rando Frame Factory Photos

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The VO Rando frames are finished and packed. Now we're just waiting to get them loaded onto a ship. If there are no delays in customs t...
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08 January, 2010

Bag, Bags, and More Bags

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Here are a few photos of the prototypes for two new bag models. The bag above is our new large British style saddlebag with an expandable ...
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05 January, 2010

VO Threadless BB Review

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Tarik's blog, Moscaline , is full of strange and interesting stuff. He just wrote a very comprehensive review of the new VO Threadless...
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23 December, 2009

Thanks and Happy Holidays!

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I wanted to thank all of you for a great year. Velo Orange enjoyed tremendous growth in 2009. This is particularly gratifying since it was ...
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Ernest Csuka of Alex Singer Cycles dies.

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From the Alex Singer site (translated): Ernest Csuka died in his 81st year December 22, 2009. The body is currently at the Chapel of Per...
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21 December, 2009

Snow and Polyvalent

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We're digging out from a major snowstorm here in Annapolis. Most of our staff made it to work so we'll be shipping orders today. T...
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18 December, 2009

Bicycle Repairman!

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The VO crew is laughing their collective butts off watching this video. Thought I'd share, though it may not reflect well on our taste i...
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Half Clips

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We received our new VO half clips a few days ago. Making our own half clips was not an easy decision. The tooling was expensive and they w...
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15 December, 2009

Holiday Schedule and Recent Shipment

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I wanted to post a little info about our holiday schedule. Velo Orange will be closed from December 24th through January 3rd. So the last da...
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14 December, 2009

Rackaleur

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Back in the day, several manufacturers made handlebar mounted racks/decaleurs for traditional front bags. These "rackaleurs" we...
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10 December, 2009

Threaded Headset Basics

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We get a lot of questions about threaded headsets, so I thought I'd post a little basic information about them. Threaded Headset Size...
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07 December, 2009

Threadless Bottom Brackets

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The threadless bottom brackets that I mentioned a few months ago have arrived and are available in the VO store . They fit most frames, ev...
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04 December, 2009

Polyvalent Ride Report, A Guest Blog

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Greetings, Velo Orange-ers. Chris has asked me to write a quick ride report about the new VO Polyvalent, so bear with me as this is the fi...
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03 December, 2009

Polyvalent Photos

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I took a few snapshots of a built-up Polyvalent. We're trying various builds and ideas. With this build I could see using the bike bot...
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02 December, 2009

Polyvalent Frames Arrive

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Polyvalent frames arrived today!  And they are now available in the VO store. Judging by the number of e-mails I've gotten about them, ...
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24 November, 2009

Thanksgiving, Closed Thursday & Friday

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As usual we will be closed Thursday through Sunday for the Thanksgiving holiday. So if you need an order shipped this week, please place it ...
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