Jim Cielencki's Bike Check
Well here is my really purple bike, I have never had a purple bike, so why not do as much as I can in purple. The last time I had a bike that was almost all one color was my white GT Performer which I got after my CW was stolen. Since CW hasn't been in business for a long time, you can guess that it was forever ago. So far everything is good and hopefully it stays good after I ride this snow bank tonight.
Frame- Sunday Prototype purple 20.5” with 13.75” rear end
Forks- Sunday Morning Forks purple
Headset- FSA
Bars- Sunday Color bars purple
Grips- Longnecks
Levers- Odyssey M-2 lever-trigger style
Bar Ends- Plastic ones from the grips
Stem- Odyssey Elementary black
Cranks- Odyssey Wombolt cranks
Sprocket- Odyssey Vermont 25t
Pedals- my Odyssey’s in Banton teal
Chain- KMC Dropbuster 510
Front Wheel- Gsport Hub with Gsport Rim
Front Tire- 2.1 Odyssey Path
Back Wheel- Odyssey cassette with Chromoly 9t Driver and chrome 7KA
Back Tire- 1.85 Odyssey Path
Brakes- Odyssey Evolvers
Pegs- Odyssey Jpeg Lighters-3 of them 2 in front and one on right side in back
Seat- Odyssey Marcel
Seat Post- Odyssey Intac
Seat Clamp- Odyssey Mr. Clampy
Other- GTX-R
Modifications Bars are cut down to 23 inches, seat post cut down and rear left side axle cut way down to basically just half the nut.
New Prototypes Arrive!
Well I am really excited to say that the second batch of prototype frames have come in. Here are some photos of the frames when they arrived at the shop. By now, almost every team rider at this time should have one in there possession, so expect bike checks to come in real soon, mine will probably be up in a day or so.
In this second batch, you will see an imprint of the Sunday logo on the ends of the chain and seat stays and a different shape of the dropout. These also have the shorter rear ends(13.75") and some minor touches to the head and downtube. The production colors are chosen, so you will see green, red and gray. If you look hard enough you might see a black frame, but those are in really limited supply. In fact, it is so limited you won't even see it until Ian sends his bike check in. The frames should be done at the end of March and at the shops by the end of April.
New fork cap!
Okay for all those people that thought the Sunday fork cap was just a Tree cap, this one is quite different. The main goal of this cap is to allow for the few people that run front brakes to take apart their bike without having to disconnect the cable from the the brake itself. Just disconnect the cable from the lever and pull the cap off the cable. To tighten the fork down just use a 6 or 8mm allen wrench. The holes are offset, but it doesn't affect the tightening of the cap. Now everything will work fine when the 990 mounted forks come out in the spring.
Time flies news update
Okay, so it has been awhile since the last update, but that is because so much has been going on. The final production frame samples are on their way here. There was 151 comments about the names of the new bars and if anyone guessed Tudor Bar then you were right. I had to keep it in line with the rest of the other bars being that their names have something to do with former shop names and Tudor was the bar where the name Sunday came from. We were at a show and couldn't think of anything except Spanish names. Domingo is Spanish for Sunday, but that didn't seem right. We thought what about Sunday and the rest is history.
Here is some info on what the team is up to:
Jim Cielencki-Well, I am trying new ways to prevent myself from going insane from doing the shop and bike company, but it really isn't working. If anybody has any suggestions, please comment. Actually, it hasn't been too bad because I was given more time from being hurt. It is either a severely bruised heal or a broken foot suffered from the Backyard Jam in October. It is feeling better, but it really isn't that good. A few insoles and landing with my right foot first is my medication right now.
Vinnie Sammon-Is in New York waiting for the
Animal Video premier on December 19th.
Ian Schwartz-Is riding in California, getting footage and hanging out with his girlfriend. He is only there a week, but is missing some of the busy season in his bike messenger job. Ian has a bunch of good clips in the newest
Shook titled "We are Everywhere".
Eli Platt-Speaking of clips, Eli also has a bunch of clips in the same Shook in fact they both are on the same trip. Eli is currently finishing up his philosphy degree. So congradulate him on that next time you see him.
Mike Hoder-What can you say about Mike? He is probably jumping something real big as we speak. He has a check out in the newest issue of
RideBMX and is currently doing rails without the need for pegs.
Karl
Karl Poynter-Karl is going on a
Shook road trip that is leaving tomorrow for the midwest somewhere. On this trip, he is trying to film his bio in a week and it will come out in the next issue called "It's On".
Joe
Mike
The Sunday International team is growing quickly. First, in the UK, Joe Cox and Mike Taylor have joined the team. Joe has an amazing section and is the creator of the UK street video Voices which should be available in the US real soon at
EmpireBMX. Mike is probably one of the more underrated and unknown riders around. I have seen him do stuff that other riders haven't stepped to yet and it has been 2 years. Incidently, both of these photos are poached from myspace.
Dominik
Photo Pierre Mandt
Christian
Photo Unknown
Second, in Germany both Dominik Wrobel and Christian Ziegler are riding for Sunday. Dominik does
WoozyBMX fulltime which doesn't seem to slow down the riding. Christian tears it up on everything and I can't wait to meet him in Estonia!
