A Full Carbon Fat Bike Capable of Being Ridden Year Round Winter is officially here! In addition to our Fat Bike offerings from Felt, Moots and Surly, Fit Werx is fortunate to represent Fatback, one of the true pioneers of Fat Bikes and still one of the finest. Among other innovations, Fatback introduced the Fat…
Why do a good number of bikes equipped with BB30/PressFit type bottom brackets develop creaks? Well, there can be a number of causes. • If the hole through the frame’s bottom bracket is not absolutely perpendicular to the frame, then the crank axle will be slightly angled. That angled crank passes through bearings that are…
Introducing the Felt Decree 3. A freshly designed, versatile and light trail bike. For ’16, Felt has introduced a new line of 27.5” trail bikes, dubbed the Decree. The idea behind the Felt Decree was to design and build a mountain bike that would be stiff and responsive when applying power, compliant and smooth when…
With a top notch carbon fiber engineering and design team and one of the most respected carbon fiber manufacturing facilities in the United States, we regard Enve as one of the top manufacturers of high performance carbon wheels and components. The new Enve SES 2.2 low profile rim further demonstrates Enve’s focus on quality of…
Shimano’s electronic shifting components are wonderful, ground-breaking technology that offers virtually flawless shifting and reliability, together with great ergonomics. However, Shimano Di2 is not flawless and one of the few faults I can find is has to do with the junction box. The current 11-speed Di2 (6870 and 9070), uses a junction box (designated by…
Manufacturer Profile: Lightweight Wheels Review Lightweight pioneered full carbon fiber bicycle wheel technology starting in the 1980’s! Lightweight has been producing wheels in their current shape since 1995 – refining the design along the way. 20 years later, there are few companies that have caught up with their technology. Lightweight wheels were born…
It may not be common knowledge, but Fit Werx has been a Moots dealer since our early days. For those of you who may not be familiar with this Moots, Moots has been making titanium bicycle frames in Steamboat Springs, CO, since 1981. Moots makes bicycles for road, mountain, cyclocross, gravel road, and they were…
By Jim Weaver, Service Manager Fit Werx, VT I’ll get this out of the way early, the ’15 Felt IA4 looks BAD and I mean this in the best possible way. The Felt IA looks like a cross between a tri bike and a fighter jet or like the bike Darth Vader might ride. However…
Felt Bicycles has consistently pursued being at the “head of the class” in TT/triathlon bike offerings over the past few years and they may well have earned the “most improved” award over the past few years. For ’15, Felt offers several lines of TT/Tri bikes. Some are real spaceships, such as the non-UCI legal IA…
After over three years of waiting, it is finally here – introducing the Speedplay SYZR. Worth the wait? We won’t know for sure until the snow clears a bit more, but the SYZR certainly appears to offer some really nice features, some of which are not found anywhere else in the world of XC MTB/inset…
Cervelo has redesigned its vaunted S5 model for 2015. The original Cervelo S5 was a ground-breaking design, widely hailed as the best aero road bike on the market. While new introductions (like Parlee’s stunning ESX) have upped the level of competition, Cervelo has remained one of the top aero road bike manufacturers as other bike…
ROAD HYDRAULIC DISC BRAKES ON A BUDGET Jim Weaver, Service Manager Fit Werx, Waitsfield, VT We have built several “gravel grinder” bikes using the recently released SRAM Rival 22 Hydro system components. Now that I have had a chance to test several bikes with this group, I wanted to briefly note my impressions. Simply stated,…