The Cyclingskills newsletter

Not only is it made in the USA. It's actually made by me. :) After three manufacturers failed to finish the DaHANGER production, 1/2 of the manufacturing is done here in Kingston NY. This is our massive foam fixture that holds and keeps the part in place while the HD foam hardens and makes a solid part. Making American manufacturing great again is going to be really difficult since most of them have already gone overseas and the few that are left only want the easy big money jobs. As soon as you have to touch parts and do manual...

Is it going to be a keeper? Your off the rack bike, it rides well, does everything other bikes do and was a great deal. So why would you ever want to get a custom bike? Gathering all the parts and putting it all together sounds like such a pain. Well, here is my short and sweet answer to this: I have both, custom and off the rack bikes and they all serve me well. But there is something about a custom bike that makes it very special. It's your own creation, a one of a kind master piece. Usually it starts...

Cheers, Hugs and High Fives! ‘THANK YOU” for helping me bring the product formerly known as “Shelfie” to life. All rewards have been sent out and we (I) are slowly transitioning into the real world of marketing online and selling thru retail stores.   The lessons learned: I always knew it was going to be hard running and completing a Kickstarter campaign. The business world is not a very kind place to be when you are a micro small startup (aka. One man band) Lessons were learned over the last two years that no MBA or business school can teach you,...

We are slowly getting to the end of our Kickstarter fulfillment journey. A big thank you to everybody who has been part of this and helped packing boxes and shipping DaHÄNGERs to all of our backers. There a roughly 130 units that still need to get finished and packed. We are going to work as fast as we can to complete these orders in the next couple of weeks.