Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Blog Down in Quake Town

Hunter vertical drop-outs
Close up of Break Apart seat cluster
Sleek and smooth travel CX frame
Chava's new bike after La Ruta...
Chava's new bike before La Ruta...

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

you stab em' we'll slab em'--you want it we'll build it

Hey Folks
Been getting somes calls about Unicycle frames... I still make them and like to make them. I don't ride them ( confession ) but I can build them...I can build lots of stuff that I don't really want to ride, like 16" BMX bikes, I would knock my teeth out with my knees !!!
Uni frames built to order, any wheel size up to a 36er...So cute...

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Yeah Kathleen

Kathleen Hannon wins her first Elite Womens race on her new gold Hunter.

Photo from Pamela Palma

Friday, September 28, 2007

friday blog down

Cross bike fever in full effect.. Heres some shots of a few recent CX frames... Light and racy... A couple shots of some basic cruiser forks, featuring the new plate arch supercrown style... New for 2008...




BURRITO ENVY
We here at Hunter cycles don't need to drive a Hummer, We don't need to jet ski or act tougher then we are... We have the biggest burrito in town !!!! 5$ of 3lb's of tender juicy love... No joke this is the standard super burrito from a little place called Popo's... Pictured on the scale, next to my autographed OJ football, next to a sharpie ( for scale ), then fully wrapped in all its glory...The homemade tortilla is so big you could saddle a horse with it...





Santa Cruz county fair at the Watsonville speedway... Killer dwarf car action... The kid that won the 600CC was 14 years old... TO THE FUTURE

Thursday, September 13, 2007

Visatacion Valley Boyz and Girlz

Wednesday evenings spent going to SF to race cycle cross across hillsides burnt by fire, littered with trash, with the dark fog rolling in...


Old style 45's spun by DJ Zo...
Cross dresser KB races for free, starting to fall out of his top...
Mary-Anne and Mr Inglis mix it up and over the high point of the course.

Ginger showing some form and style.

KB in full flight... Super Skanky
Luckily I flatted out in the first lap so I was able to take pics and enjoy the evening.

Monday, September 10, 2007

El Blogador

Bee and Mary-Anne hiking the beach during the 1st annual Steve Smith tribute ride...
29er
29er fever
And yet more 29er good stuff... Punk Ass Cams punk rock shredder, no paint just rust...
A crazy pic of some pallet junkies on our drive down from Vancouver Island.. Somewheres just south of Seattle.
" The Todd " ... Master of the corn tortilla..

Thursday, September 06, 2007

what the kids are into...

I know its been a long time since we've updated our blog...I've been real busy trying to catch up with work and now CX season has started...Diligan this ones for you...

Raw CX super crown fork sent out to the heads at Monkey Wrench cycles... Lincoln Nebraska.
A nice little road frame with a cool poo brown color..
Chava's 29er farm road, river levee destroyer...
Close up of the custom FRP enhanced U-brakes....
Hand painted sign for the old mayor of Salinas, look at the size of her hands !!!
The fine artist himself.. Ilia the oddball landlord.. He can ride a wheelie on anything..
I'll save some more for later--- That didn't take too long..

Monday, July 09, 2007

Back in town---Back in Action

Hey Hey
Heres some shots and words following a few weeks on the roads and trails of the Great Divide... I want to say thanks to everybody for their best wishes, encouragements, and congratulations... I never thought I would feel a sense of accomplishment after dropping out of a race, but I do... Not sure if I'll try the race again, though the longer I've been away from it the more I think about next year... Bike racing in general is kinda like that, always more fun after the fact, you forget all the temporary pain and just remember the thrill...
I'm a little rusty with this blogger thing so all the picks are mixed up.... Also I should get back to work....


Beautiful night climbing into Slater park (Steamboat springs CO )... This was one of the best climbs I experienced... Warm breezes, herds of elk... Shortly before the climb I was down in the dumps, bonked out from the last stretch of Wyoming, ready to give up....32 ounces of pepsi later I was flying and climbing like a madman... Didn't stop until the top of the mountain where I bivied amonst the trees...

Back streets of Salida CO... One of the many places I want to go back to..

My sweet wife Mary-Anne... Sometime before I left... Without her help and love I wouldn't have done the race... She held down the fort when I was gone... I softened her up a bit before I left with a new/old Schwinn cruiser... Suprise !

Fleecer ridge downhill.... This was one of the few gnarly parts of my ride... Steeper then it looks..

Somewheres in Montana... There was a lot of this... Valley riding throught the ranches and sage... High peaks on all sides..

Cool retro snow cat... Lima Montana

More sage, more mountains, more dirt roads...

Spent some time in Pinedale WY... Interesting place...

A shot of my trusty steed with minimal gear and lots of miles... Only one flat tire... Just lubed my chain a bunch...

Ran into these guys somewhere outside of Pinedale... They were heading north on the route and had started sometime around the end of April... We exchanged photo op's and talked about the route in either direction... They had me smiling as I rode away, kept thinking " Hanz and Franz "....


A few days into the start of Montana....

More Montana, lush and thick with grizzly.... Only saw one but was scared of many more .....
O.K. for now....
Rick