June 18th GRAND OPENING

Soft Opening Pictures

Via Twotoneatl

See the article and all the pictures at http://twotoneatl.com/2010/06/13/loose-nuts-soft-opening/

Few Progress Pics

Dr. Jones and Ms. Sanders came down to the shop a few days ago to check out whats been going on.  While here, between beverages and pizza,  Ben snapped a few great pictures so take a peek inside (and out)

Loose Nuts Cycles -- UPDATE

Rapid progress is happening at 452-A Cherokee Ave, Atlanta, GA 30312.  Stay tuned for more details and pictures!

ATL Polo getting the come up

I've been working with Eighth Inch for a while now helping them develop their mallet heads. Well, the wait has finally come to an end with these fine final models.





The come in a handful of different colors and are made of HDPE-- the same material that most players are currently using.  Designed around a one bolt attachment method swapping out shafts is extremely fast.  A cool feature that keeps the mallet heads from being proprietary (which is a pet peeve of mine) is that the diameter of the opening in the mallet for the shaft is 19mm.  This is the same diameter of the non-tapered end of a ski pole.


All in all I am extremely happy with how the final design turned out-- they play wonderfully and are super solid.  I can't wait until their production shaft drops because the combo of the two should be one of the stoutest set-ups on the market.

Doin' Tricks

Went riding with Kareem and Sean over the weekend.  Sean snapped this pic of me right before my rear axle broke.  Gotta love the crazy face--

26" Fixed

Latest wheel build-- 26" Velocity Cliffhanger rims laced to Profile True 3/8" hubs.  Pretty sick build and going to a great guy in Canada.  We're international folks!

Loose Nuts Cycles in the Media

Just found out that Loose Nuts Cycles is in the media.  What Now Atlanta did a small piece check it out HERE

Also, Thrillist is going to run a piece in the near future.  Check back to see the article soon!

Twilight before Twilight Alleycat Friday April 23rd Athens

Some friends of mine in Athens are throwing an Alley Cat the night before the Twilight Criterium.  Come out and race-- then stick around for some awesome professional racing on Saturday.




After the race Anchor Tattoo will be having a bike themed art opening.  Swing by for some great art and great tattoo work.

More Broken Parts

So after about 2 months of running a rear peg, yes I run a peg, finally snapped an axle.  The Velocity hubs that I'm running have been awesome-- cheap and pretty strong, and truly, asking a 10mm non-hardened axle to stand up to grinds is a lot to ask.  Luckily Kareem had a spare axle and in about ten minutes I was back up and running.



Wonder if anyone makes a hardened axle or a 14mm fixed hub?

New Spokesgirl

We got a new spokesgirl here at Loose Nuts--

Late Bike Builds

Here are a few pictures of the latest bike builds from Loose Nuts.

Nash's Build






Rhys's Build

Headed to the Richmond River City Trick Jam tomorrow.  Pictures and a write up to come--

A Snowy Athens

Athens got hit with some snow yesterday.  Took the Bruiser out towards the bar and managed to eat shit rolling out of the driveway.  Guess CX tires should have been swapped on.

Broken Parts are No Fun

Was out riding a few days ago and was doing a grind when I heard a pop.  This was the end result-- not much fun.

After swapping on a non-splined chainwheel to get home I took apart the Krull, Stout, All-City ring combo and the Krull just fell into two pieces.

I'm currently debating on what to do next for a chainwheel.  I really like the Krull for its compatibility with my Steel MKE Stout, but obviously, its not up to the task of grinding.  A Tree Lite sprocket would probably make the most sense but its not compatible with a bash/grind guard.  Maybe left side drive is in my future.