We’re Having a Sale!
Leap Year, Still Cold, Edition
This edition of the Spoken Wrench is brought to you by the numbers 4 and 29. Every four years, we have the opportunity to vote, watch the summer Olympic Games, and celebrate 366 days in the year. To celebrate the 29th day of February, we’ve decided to have a sale. See how that works, we want to celebrate, you get to save money. Sounds good to me.
Hope to see you there!
Bring a friend, bring lots of friends. Save lots of money! (The bringing of friends is not necessary not does it mean greater savings, but it would make us <I>very</I> happy.)
Patent pending Spoken Wrench humor not included. See Shop for details.
Continental Bike Shop presents the Spoken Wrench vol4 no2a
Continental Bike Shop presents the Spoken Wrench vol4 no2a
Correction and Clarification Edition
After reading the previous Spoken Wrench, and a reminder from Randy, I realized I didn’t say how or where to RSVP to…
So, if you would like to RSVP for either event, you may, as some of you have done, and I appreciate, reply via email, or you can call the shop 248 545 1225 and let whoever picks up the phone know you’ll be attending one of our awesome slide shows. Which are, as always, more than slides: lots of talking, background on the event and food. And drinks. Hence the need for an RSVP.
RSVP for Beth Brandvain’s Copper Canyon coolness by February 4. and for Dave’s version of the L’Eroic by February 20. Please let us know who you are and how many friends you might be bringing with you.
So plan on making an appearance at one or both events and we hope to see you there! Tell your friends! (make them RSVP too!)
-the ever-apologetic-that-I-had-to-make-a-correction, but I’m learning to spell, Wrench Wench, Liz.
In case you missed it, here’s the pertinent section of the previous Spoken Wrench.
Up and Coming Happenings at Continental Bike Shop
We’ve got two slide shows happening in the next month. First, Beth Brandvain will be showing off her new Cannondale Rush and the workout it got recently in Copper Canyon Mexico, February 6th at 7PM. Four times the size of the Grand Canyon, Copper Canyon covers 25,000 square miles. (That’s a lot to ride!) With some very cool looking photos, and a whole lot to talk about, it looks like one very interesting night! Please RSVP for this event by February 4th so we’ve got an idea of how many people will be coming and how much refreshments we’ll need.
Second, on February 22nd, Dave will be presenting his photos from the 2006 L’Eroica Ride in Tuscany. In case you’ve never heard of the L’Eroic ride, Brooks England, the leather saddle people, say this about it in their 2006 ‘Book for Cyclists’:
As can be read from one of our old catalogues, Brooks saddles were once the choice of all participants at the Tour de France. Of course, time and technology has moved on, but the atmosphere of that bygone era can still be experienced at L’Eroica, the world’s most grueling daily cycle tour.
At the end of each summer the village of Gaiole in Tuscany, Italy, plays host to a community of cyclists determined to keep the spirit of that era alive. The don period clothing and ride vintage bikes which, given the course, can only be described as truly heroic. A set of dirt courses ranging from the easy 40km to the hardest 200km tour await the participants who ride L’Eroica.
As usual, we will provide refreshments and food. Tell your neighbors, bring friends! And we hope to see you there! Please RSVP for Beth’s slide show by February 4th and by February 20th for Dave’s slide show.
Continental Bike Shop presents the Spoken Wrench vol4 no2
Continental Bike Shop presents the Spoken Wrench vol4 no2
February Special Events, Special Edition
This edition of the Spoken Wrench is brought to you by the letter “Q,” for Quick Release Safety. Remember to check to make sure your quick releases are properly engaged. Not too tight and not too lose. If you’ve got any questions, well we suggest nuttted axles or we can always show you the proper method. Also a shout out to the fast disappearing quill stem, which made lots of sense, and still see a fair bit of use from Bianchi.
Up and Coming Happenings at Continental Bike Shop
We’ve got two slide shows happening in the next month. First, Beth Brandvain will be showing off her new Cannondale Rush and the workout it got recently in Copper Canyon Mexico, February 6th at 7PM. Four times the size of the Grand Canyon, Copper Canyon covers 25,000 square miles. (That’s a lot to ride!) With some very cool looking photos, and a whole lot to talk about, it looks like one very interesting night! Please RSVP for this event by February 4th so we’ve got an idea of how many people will be coming and how much refreshments we’ll need.
Second, on February 22nd, Dave will be presenting his photos from the 2006 L’Eroica Ride in Tuscany. In case you’ve never heard of the L’Eroic ride, Brooks England, the leather saddle people, say this about it in their 2006 ‘Book for Cyclists’:
As can be read from one of our old catalogues, Brooks saddles were once the choice of all participants at the Tour de France. Of course, time and technology has moved on, but the atmosphere of that bygone era can still be experienced at L’Eroica, the world’s most grueling daily cycle tour.
At the end of each summer the village of Gaiole in Tuscany, Italy, plays host to a community of cyclists determined to keep the spirit of that era alive. The don period clothing and ride vintage bikes which, given the course, can only be described as truly heroic. A set of dirt courses ranging from the easy 40km to the hardest 200km tour await the participants who ride L’Eroica.
As usual, we will provide refreshments and food. Tell your neighbors, bring friends! And we hope to see you there! Please RSVP for Beth’s slide show by February 4th and by February 20th for Dave’s slide show.
Continental Bike Shop presents the Spoken Wrench vol4 no1
Continental Bike Shop presents the Spoken Wrench vol4 no1
January, It’s a New Year! Edition
This edition of the Spoken Wrench is brought to you by the letter “P,” for past editions of the Spoken Wrench. There’s a lot of important, useable, and otherwise cool information that ends up in the Spoken Wrench, but it’s been hard to find a way to archive it online. But, I had an epiphany a while ago, and now issues of the Spoken Wrench going back to May 2007 (vol3 no3) are available on our website. So if there’s something you missed, or a Tip of the Month that you’d like to go back and reread, you’ll find most of 2007 online. AS 2008 and volume 4 of the Spoken Wrench get on their way, you’ll find the current edition of the Spoken Wrench there too.
Spin Classes?
We’ve had some interest in spin classes, but we don’t run them, Team in Training does. To participate in spinning classes at Continental you need to be signed up for Team in Training. To do this, you can check out the Michigan Chapter of Team in Training’s Website here.
Dates for spin classes are:
Wednesday February 13th
Saturday February 16th
Wednesday February 27th
Saturday March 1st
Wednesday March 12th
Saturday March 15th
Wednesday March 26th
Saturday March 29th
Spinning classes in March are weather dependent, so if its nice out, rides will be outside. Otherwise we’ll be keeping company with Team in Training through the end of March.
Sign, Sign, Everywhere a Sign
If you’ve been into the shop recently, you’ve seen our new chalkboards, with most of our repair prices on them. If you haven’t, come on by and take a look at the new chalkboards. They’re fun and we think it’s a good idea that you can see right away what your repair might cost, and have an idea of how your estimate breaks down. The menu boards fit with the eclectic feel of the back room, with the bar and the coffee (if you missed it, we’ve now got coffee, hot chocolate and a variety of teas), for a fun ‘Come on in, have a seat, stay a while’ kind of feel.
Up and Coming Happenings at Continental Bike Shop
We’ve got two slide shows happening in the next month. First, Beth Brandvain will be showing off her new Cannondale Rush and the workout it got recently in Copper Canyon Mexico, February 6th at 7PM. Four times the size of the Grand Canyon, Copper Canyon covers 25,000 square miles. (That’s a lot to ride!) With some very cool looking photos, and a whole lot to talk about, it looks like one very interesting night!
Second, on February 22nd, Dave will be presenting his photos from the L’Eroica Ride in Tuscany. In case you’ve never heard of the L’Eroic ride, Brooks England, the leather saddle people, say this about it in their 2006 ‘Book for Cyclists’:
As can be read from one of our old catalogues, Brooks saddles were once the choice of all participants at the Tour de France. Of course, time and technology has moved on, but the atmosphere of that bygone era can still be experienced at L’Eroica, the world’s most grueling daily cycle tour.
At the end of each summer the village of Gaiole in Tuscany, Italy, plays host to a community of cyclists determined to keep the spirit of that era alive. The don period clothing and ride vintage bikes which, given the course, can only be described as truly heroic. A set of dirt courses ranging from the easy 40km to the hardest 200km tour await the participants who ride L’Eroica.
As usual, we will provide refreshments and food. Tell your neighbors, bring friends! And we hope to see you there!
Attitude and Cynicism, Bike Shop Style.
We’re a pretty opinionated bunch around here. Same goes for, well all the riders, shop employees, and to some extent, the industry people we’ve ever come in contact with. We all know what’s right and best, despite what everyone else thinks is right and best. Every once and a while, someone comes along and does ‘right and best’ better, and with way more attitude than even we’ve got, and we have to tip our heads to them, even if we don’t always agree with their interpretation of ‘right and best.’ So, if you like reading blogs, or you might like to start, we recommend Bike Snob NYC. Like I mentioned earlier, we don’t agree with everything he says, but we enjoy reading it and laughing uproariously.
