BIKE IMPROVEMENT SUGGESTIONS (AKA -THINGS TO PUT ON THE HOLIDAY WISH LIST…) By Jim Weaver, Service Manager Fit Werx, Waitsfield, VT                With falling leaves and temperatures, many of us begin to turn our thoughts from cycling towards anticipating winter activities such as skiing.  However, this is a good time to think about your bike […]Read More

This featured bike bargain is the Parlee Z5 built with a SRAM Force group. The Parlee Z5 is unquestionably one of the very nicest riding and best fitting production carbon road frames on the market.  Parlee is a specialty builder and their experience in carbon manufacturing is evident throughout the fabrication and design of the […]Read More

Here's Rich pre-Swim  at the USA Triathlon Nationals August 18, 2012   As many of you may know the Fit Werx family was hit hard by the drowning death of our friend Rich Angelo at USA Triathlon Nationals in Burlington, VT on August 18th.  It was his Wedding Annivesary that day.   Rich’s goal was […]Read More

PARLEE FACTORY TOUR By Jim Weaver, Service Manager Fit Werx, VT             My wife had to make another trip to Boston to visit the harp retail and repair store in Salem.  So, I tagged along to take the opportunity to visit the Parlee factory in Beverly, MA.  I had visited the factory about 1 1/2 […]Read More

GUNNAR BICYCLES – MY IMPRESSIONS by Jim Weaver, Service Manager Fit Werx, VT             I have now worked at Fit Werx full-time for getting close to 3 1/2 years and I have had the privilege of building many, many bicycles, some of them truly dream machines.  These "dream machines" were custom-built, lust-inducing bikes from the […]Read More

Some bikes are great looking and some are just stunning…  Cyfac Absolu from France. Read More

CERVELO P5 – INITIAL IMPRESSIONS by Jim Weaver, Service Manager Fit Werx, VT             Earlier this summer, we built one of the very first Cervelo P5’s in New England.   I had intended to immediately post a short article summarizing my impressions, but one thing led to another and I was delayed.  Bruce and I both […]Read More

By Jim Weaver, Service Manager Fit Werx, Waitsfield, VT  Last March, I attended a seminar in New York City providing training in the installation and operation of Campagnolo’s new electronic shifting system, dubbed EPS.  I wrote an article about this training, and the system, which can be found at https://fitwerx.com/category/new-bike-technology/page/3.   If you have not had […]Read More