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Velo Orange HQ Visit: “Homage to an Ideal”

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Velo Orange HQ Visit: “Homage to an Ideal”

Following his visit with Crust Bikes, Nic Morales‘s road trip across the southeast continues with a trip to Velo Orange in Baltimore, MD. Given his longstanding appreciation of the brand’s ethos and product offerings, it felt only right to finally put a face to the names and influences that had influenced so much of his cycling life.

Through an extensive tour of their headquarters and an interview with co-founder Igor Shteynbuk, Nic learned of the logistics and mindset taken up by those behind the “VO” adorning many of our builds… Check it out below!

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Korb Works: Seoul, Korea Cycling

Junseo Youn runs Korb Works, aiming to make the Seoul bicycle scene more colorful and fun. Seoul has a big road bike and mountain bike scene, and Korb hopes to meet this in-between with a fair amount of Velo Orange, camping, overnighters, sandals, friends, and good coffee.

I Don’t Want Anything That’s Fast: The Bikes of Spencer Connell

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I Don’t Want Anything That’s Fast: The Bikes of Spencer Connell

Spencer and I have been riding bikes together for 15 years. Since then, Spencer developed a career building and repairing guitars in Nashville, Tennessee. Back when we were younger, we spent a lot of time hanging around our local bike shop,  Halcyon, and working on our bikes on their community stands. His bikes are deeply practical, very unique, and kind of clapped out. I’m not here to tell anyone what to do, but I wish more people built and rode bikes like Spencer. Recently I went to Nashville, and I took some time to document his bikes and ask him a few questions about his builds. Below, let’s check out what he had to say…