Cyclocross, Gravel & Touring

Breezer Radar Pro

If you prize versatility over every other design element, this is the bike for you.

Joe Breeze, one of the original mountain bike builders knows how to design a great bike, and this one is no exception. Call it a gravel bike or a touring bike. Call it an off-road rig or an urban runabout. Call it your bike.

The Breezer Radar and Radar Pro are the bikes we chose for commuters, adventure-bikers and one-bike-that-must-do-it-all people. The steel frames are light, durable and springy. There are dozens of braze-on attachment points for racks, fenders and bottle cages. The Sram components tolerate being left dirty and/or abused, the hydraulic disc brakes stop you easily with a light touch, and the dirt-drop handlebars are comfortable and versatile.

Wide dirt-drop bars

If you had been considering a Surly Straggler, you may want to reconsider. The Radar Pro is lighter, has just as many attachment points for racks as the Surly, it features a more comfortable (and controllable) upright riding position for gravel or dirt trails, and comes in about $200 less than a similarly spec’d Surly.

Kona Jake the Snake

Kona has produced a cyclocross bike for over twenty years now. Early versions were notable for their versatility and modern design. Sometimes the bicycle reviewers were critical of Kona for not being “Euro” enough. Review writers would ding them for having things like water bottle cage mounts or fender eyelets on a racing bike. They would bemoan Kona’s do-everything approach to a bike that was supposed to be raced for 45 minutes a weekend during the autumn and early winter and then sit in the garage for the rest of the year.

These days we applaud versatility.

Like previous Jake the Snake models, this one handles great and is built with an impressive array of smart and durable component choices. You still get a bike than is fast and light (feel free to race it on the weekends), but the versatility has just gotten better over the years. You now get TRP Spyre disc brakes instead of cyclocross cantilevers so you can actually stop the bike on steep descents or when you’re carrying heavy cargo. The Shimano 105 drivetrain has a broader gear range than the cross bikes of twenty years ago, so you can ride up the hills that you used to have to walk, and you can keep up to speed on fast road rides as the top end of the gear range is now similar to that of a road-only racing bike.

Another thing that has changed since the mid ’90′s? We can sell you a Kona Jake the Snake instead of telling you why the cyclocross model that we stock is almost as good.

Kona Jake

Want to join in some off-season cyclocross mayhem? Do some road riding in places where the roads aren’t so good? Feel like riding your bike to work, and don’t know what kind of bike will “work”? Try a cyclocross bike.

The Kona Jake has all of the features that make a ‘cross bike great, and you get those features for an astounding price. The Jake comes with a carbon cross fork, a feather-light aluminum frame with a threaded external bottom bracket (no creaky noise like a BB30) a mix of Shimano Tiagra and FSA components, internal cable routing (to keep the control wires out of the elements), Hayes CX disc brakes, Clement MXP tires and some durable and sweet-riding wheels.

Kona designs their bikes here in the Pacific Northwest, so we get some great extras. Tires that work well on our trails. Fender mounts. Stainless steel and aluminum fasteners that won’t rust. Gearing that can get you up our hills. Saddles that won’t get waterlogged. Coffee cup mounts (in some regions, they apparently ride with water bottles) perfect for travel-mug holders…

Marin Nicasio

Steel is real.

That’s what everybody says, steel is real. Really comfortable, really affordable, really smooth riding and classic looking.

The Marin Nicasio has a steel frame and fork and it may just be your next favorite bike. The Nicasio is outfitted with a Shimano Claris drivetrain, Promax mechanical disc brakes, durable 32-spoke wheels and 30mm Schwalbe Spicer tires. It has a familiar smooth ride that reminds us of road bikes from the 1980′s. Actually, the price reminds us of the ’80′s too. It’s under $800.

Bicycling magazine named the Nicasio “One of the best 17 road bikes of 2017″

Marin Gestalt

In case you’re not familiar with the term, Gestalt is a whole that is more than the sum of its parts.

Marin named these bikes quite well. These are great bikes that give you more than the component list (or the prices) would suggest.

The Gestalt series aluminum frame is smooth and light (actually a bit lighter and springier than the steel Marin Nicasio or Fuji’s Sportive frame). It also comes with a fender and front-rack ready fork. The Gestalt versions that have mechanical (as opposed to hydraulic) brakes rely on the powerful Tekro Spyre models. All of these bikes feature internal cable runs and the fabulous 30mm Schwalbe G-One tires. In order to keep the prices reasonable, the Gestalt 1 comes with Shimano Sora components (for under $1100). The Gestalt 2 is equipped with a carbon fork and Sram GX-1 drivetrain for around $1200, and the Gestalt 3 goes with hydraulic disc brakes and Sram Rival parts for $2199.

Fuji Tread

Tread 1.5

Cyclocross bike or touring bike or gravel bike or disc-brake road bike?
Fuji has a family of bikes that fit into all of these categories but are defined by none of them.
Fuji’s Tread series are just good bikes at decent prices.
The idea behind the Tread series is that you can blur the lines of different road bike categories and make a versatile and fun bike. Take a long haul touring bike and make the handling sportier. Take a cyclocross bike, lower the bottom bracket height for better on-road manners, then add rack & fender eyelets. Take a road bike, install disc brakes and give it some beefy tires and rims so it can handle a tough urban commute.

The Tread 1.3

The Tread 1.5 gives you an aluminum frame, disc brakes, a carbon fork (steerer tube as well as legs), and reliable Shimano Claris components all for around $800. It’s a steal. Then there’s the 1.3 which comes with the newly updated Shimano Sora group and TRP Spyre disc brakes for about $900!
Whatever road bike category you have in mind, you might want to ride one of these Fujis. With great performance and astounding component choices for under $1000, you really ought to give one of these a spin.

Scott Cyclocross

Scott Speedster CX 20

Scott makes some of the best cyclocross bikes available. They are all great values, they come with an excellent mix of quality components, they have fantastic tires for ‘cross right out of the box, and frame design elements that work for a variety of riding styles.

The Addict CX is the top of the line, with a full carbon frame and race-worthy components.

The Speedster CX 20 does it all, and will keep you within your budget. Race on the weekend, put your rack and fenders back on and the ride to work Monday through Friday. This bike is light, durable, and versatile. The hydroformed aluminum frame has internal cable runs to keep the shifting and braking controls clean. The Speedster CX20 comes stock with Synchros wheels and cockpit with Shimano 105 and solid Tiagra components making up the drivetrain withTRP disc brakes taking care of slowing you down.

Scott Speedster CX10

The CX20 is great, and is pretty reasonable at around $1200. What more could you want?

Well, if you upgrade the brakes from the already excellent TRP Spyre mechanical brakes to Shimano’s hydraulic RS-805 brakes, install some Shimano Ultegra components, bump up the number of gears and drop some weight with lighter-weight cockpit components you’ll have the Speedster CX 30.

Ritchey Ascent Breakaway

Most of us have access to a couple of different bikes.

If something horrible were ever to happen to our society (like maybe a zombie apocalypse) and you had to get by with only one bike to ride everywhere, you could hardly pick a better bike than the Ritchey Ascent.

The Ascent is a long-haul touring bike. It’s a gravel adventure bike. With upright handlebars installed it becomes a hybrid city bike. With upright handlebars and fat tires installed it’s a mountain bike. With skinny and smooth tires installed it’s a fast road bike. The Ascent can be configured any way that you can imagine, and since it comes to us as a bare frame and you decide how you want it to turn out, it can be configured to fit just about any budget that you have in mind.

It’s a bit of a puzzle, but it all fits.

All packed up and ready to roll

Did we mention that the Ascent is a travel bike? Yep. It comes apart and fits into a regular-size suitcase. This means that it flies to your ride destination just like regular checked luggage with no exorbitant bicycle surcharge.

Don’t worry. If you happen to have a couple of different bikes at home and want to add the Ascent to your fleet, it doesn’t have to be your only ride.

Velo Orange Pass Hunter

Velo Orange PassHunter Disc

You might be a rider who likes the idea of a steel touring bike.
You read Bicycle Quarterly and understand the appeal of wide road tires, generator lights and Brooks saddles. 400 kilometer long brevets with the Seattle Randonneuring club may be in your future, or you may just want a nice bike for commuting.
There are a few bike companies out there who understand what you want. Raleigh makes the Tamland and Surly has the Long Haul Trucker, but you may want something a little more refined. It looks to you like a new Rivendell might be the way to go, if not for a few quirks about their design philosophy (old-fashioned cantilever brakes, quill-style handlebar stems).

Velo Orange Dajia handlebar

Internal brake routing

Velo Orange has it all figured out. This bike takes disc brakes (with internal hose routing) and uses modern handlebar stems and headsets. The Pass Hunter frameset gives you the all-day comfort of the Tamland and comes in the versatile frame-only option like a Surly, without the goofy Rivendell quirks. The Pass Hunter is made from springy double-butted cromoly tubing. The fork has a fair amount of rake (so it will steer well with bags and other gear on the front end) and has a beautiful double-plate crown.
Buy the Pass Hunter as a frameset for $619 or have us build it up with your favorite parts (the pictured bike came out around $2800).
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Felt F55x Cyclocross

F55x Cyclocross

You may not need a cyclocross bike for cyclocross racing (as a lot of folks use these bikes for commuting or just riding in the woods), but Felt packages all of the best cross features into the 55x giving you one great race-ready bike. The frame is made out of Felt’s lightweight 6061 butted aluminum, and is designed with a shoulder-friendly top tube for portaging. The bike is equipped with the SRAM Rival Cx1 component group and has Rival Hydraulic Disc brakes. Fenders and a rack are easily mounted onto this bike, which isn’t always possible on such a great race machine.
Don’t worry about breaking the bank. The 55x gives you everything you need for a shade under $2000.

Felt V85

Felt V85 road & gravel

We’re not sure what the deal is with the guys who outfit Felt’s mid-priced bikes, but they’re probably pretty intimidating people.
What we have here is a $1600 do-everything bike, the V85.
It’s nice. Use it to commute, tour with it, ride it on gravel roads, try out some cyclocross, whatever. The V85 rides great, it’s light, and the versatile design really doesn’t leave you stuck with a bunch of compromises, no matter how you ride it.
Now, the thing about guys who wrangle the parts specifications? This bike is equipped like it should cost $2000. There is a complete Shimano 105 group on it. It has TRP Spyre brakes. A carbon fork and seatpost. A Selle Royal gel saddle (that will accept snap-in tail lights and seat bags). Extra cross-style brake levers. Gel grip tape. Challenge Strada Bianca tires, an adjustable handlebar stem and Wellgo aluminum pedals.
This bike has a component package and a retail price that don’t match. I’m guessing there were some Mafia-style threats going on between Felt and their suppliers.

We were right about these being over-spec’d or under-priced. Felt discontinued the V85 (sounds like they weren’t making any money on them) but we have two left. If you’re between 5’3″ and 5’9″ tall we have a version that will fit. All yours for $1549.

Ritchey Breakaway Cyclocross & Touring

Ritchey Breakaway steel cross

Tom Ritchey has been making great riding, well-designed bicycles for years.

Why get a Ritchey? Well, because it will be your favorite bike ever, one that you love to ride everyday. When business or family trips come up, you can bring your bike with you. You won’t have to spend your downtime watching television in your hotel. You can go for a bike ride! The coupling system allows you to pack your bike and travel with ease. A full size bike in a case that measures a scant 9″x26″x29″!

The Break-Away bike disassembles and assembles in minutes and comes complete with a travel case. Ritchey custom steel or carbon construction and the patented compression coupling system are the keys to this design. The frame is securely joined at the seatpost and on the downtube. The coupler clamps unobtrusively around small flanges on the downtube. It is a simple design. This system is as secure, if not more so, than coupling systems much larger. These bikes are lighter than S & S coupled bikes. The break-away feature adds less than 100 grams.

All packed up and ready to roll

It’s a bit of a puzzle, but it all fits.

Simple seat clamps hold the frame together

Simple seat post clamps hold the frame together

Ritchey Break-Away frames are available in custom heat treated cromoly tubing and carbon fiber. Framesets are available in road or cyclocross frame styles in 48, 50, 52, 54, 56, 58, and 60cm sizes. Purchase as a complete bike or as a frameset with carbon fork, headset, cable couplers & deluxe travel bag.

We believe in these bikes. Both Paul and Jaime ride their Ritchey Breakaways daily, and hope to travel some day with them…

We keep an assortment of Ritchey frames and complete bikes in stock.

Surly Straggler

Call the Straggler a “gravel bike”.

Call the Straggler a “cyclocross bike”.

Call the Straggler a “commuter bike”.

Maybe you should call the Straggler “My bike”.

Surly has made a versatile and fun bike here with the Straggler. The handling and performance characteristics are squarely in the cyclocross world. The bike has a little bit shorter wheelbase than the Long Haul Trucker, so it climbs and sprints better than a dedicated touring bike. There is ample room for fenders and fat tires, and there are accessory mounts all over the bike. The cromoly steel frameset is durable and rides great. The Straggler is the most “modern” road bike that Surly offers, as it comes equipped with both STI shift levers and disc brakes right out of the box!
Available as a frameset or a complete bike in over a dozen sizes.

Surly Cross Check (and Cross-Check Disc)

Surly Cross-Check

Not going to step lightly around the subject. We have other bikes for sale that you might like better than the Cross Check.

Felt has some bikes save a lot of weight with their aluminum frames, and have better components at similar prices to the Surly.

The steel Breezer Radar has probably the best ride quality of any touring or cross bike ever built. The Marin Gestalt and Nicassio models can be pounds lighter than a Cross Check.

You might want to get a Surly anyway.

A Cross-Check city bike

The Cross Check from Surly is the bike to pick when you want options. Really tall or really small? Surly has a frame size that will fit. Want to customize your bike? Surlys are available as bare frames. Want tough steel tubing and thick paint that will handle years of abuse and neglect? Surly is your brand. Want something a little different, or a little less “corporate”, pick Surly.

Since the Cross Check is available as a bare frameset, you can have us build you a Cross Check in any configuraton that you can imagine. Upright handlebars, drop bars, skinny road tires or big fat knobbies, anything. Available with rim brakes or discs.

Surly even makes a version with couplers in the middle of the frame so you can take it apart and stuff it in a suitcase when you travel.

Colnago World Cup and Prestige Cyclocross

World Cup disc

Sven Nys and Colnago have been at the top of the cyclocross world for almost a decade.

Colnago makes two of the best performing, most stylish and safest cross bikes in the world. Great handling with the best forks ever made for cyclocross, a curved section integrated into the frame for shouldering the bikes, and perfect tubing choices for weight and ride quality.

In cross, safety is paramount, and Colnago is one of only a handful of manufacturers to have achieved the ISO 9001 quality certification. It’s nice to know that your 17 pound cyclocross bike isn’t going to fall apart while you are attempting that scary flyover or hopping a barrier.

Colnago Prestige disc

Works with internal Di2 wiring or traditional cables

The Prestige even gets used on the road occasionally. The French Europecar team grabbed podium spots at Paris-Roubaix and the Tour of Flanders on their Prestige Cyclocross bikes!

Think that a Colnago Cyclocross bike is too fancy for you? Consider this: The World Cup comes in 2cm size increments from 48cm to 62cm and can be had for less than $2000.

Raleigh RXC Pro Disc

The most bad-ass racing-dedicated production bike available.

Yeah. This is the bike Raleigh made for Ben Berden to race his grizzled-old tattoo-covered mud-splattered bones around on. How about that?

Yeah, you don’t care. What you might care about is that this is the most technologically advanced cyclocross bike we’ve ever seen.

Raleigh redesigned the carbon frameset with a lower bottom bracket and new front-end geometry for their best performing bike yet. The front and rear dropouts now use thru-axles as opposed to regular quick release skewers for better disc brake stopping power and less frame and fork twisting. The component group boasts Shimano Ultegra Di2 electronic shifting (which works flawlessly even in the worst conditions) and integrates Shimano hydraulic disc brakes into the whole package.

Push-button shifting, hydraulic braking

Ultegra 11 (22) speed electronic shifting

Clement tubeless tires

There’s a Prologo saddle with its water-resistant cover, the American Classic wheels, the tubeless Clement tires, the FSA bar and stem combo. It’s a lot of impressive technology that makes for one awesome riding experience (offroad or on pavement).

Surly Long Haul Trucker

Planning a tour that will take you off of the beaten path?
The Long Haul Trucker from Surly might be the bike for you.
Surly makes their loaded touring bikes out of tough steel tubing and finishes them with thick paint that will handle weird adventures and lots of abuse.
The Trucker has mounts for front and rear racks, fenders, and 3 bottle cages. Available as bare frames, Surly’s are easy to customize (they come with road-bike style drop bars, our pictured bikes are customized with upright bars for a long adventure across Russia).

26″- wheeled version

Are you really tall or really small? The Trucker comes in a frame size that will fit (and in 26″ or 700c wheel-size options).
Sure these bikes can be a little strange-looking (especially the tall versions with the small wheels), but sometimes you want something a little different, something a little less “corporate”, or something a bit more personal.

Available with disc or rim brakes.

Redline Conquest 24

You asked for it, so now we have it.

A cyclocross and/or road option for the elementary school set.

The Conquest 24 is efficient enough for junior to keep up with you on road rides (watch out!). It provides all of the features and speed needed to race the junior events at the Seattle Cyclocross series, and with a switch of tires, can handle summer road racing or the Chilly Hilly. Redline designs their bikes here in Seattle, and they have done a great job here with a fun, safe and versatile bike for local riders.

Seven-time national cyclocross champion (and Bremerton resident) Logan Owen won his first 3 championship titles on one of these.

Lynskey Cooper CX

Lynskey Cooper CX industrial mill finish

If you’re only going to have one bike to do it all, the Cooper CX is a great choice.

A great commuter bike for riders in the Pacific Northwest, the Cooper CX won’t rust. There is no paint to chip off. The disc brakes work great in the rain, and with no brake wear on your rims your wheels will last a lot longer. The bike will also handle a wide range of tire sizes and still have room for fenders.

Take the fenders off of the CX and install knobby tires and you get a great cyclocross racer. The disc brakes won’t pack up with mud like cantilevers can, so slowing down on a muddy Seattle cyclocross course won’t be quite so scary. If you crash your CX, it won’t look nearly as beat up as a painted bike.

Cooper CX with Whisky carbon fork

The Cooper CX with Wound-Up fork, full fenders

The Cooper CX with etched graphics and a Wound-Up fork

Loaded touring on the Cooper is a breeze. The wheelbase is just long enough to keep your panniers stable and out of the way, and the sporty (but stable) handling feels right with all but the heaviest loads. Feel free to cruise the gravel backroads as well as paved routes while you’re at it.

Lastly, a Cooper CX with road tires will be light and fast-rolling enough to keep up on even the most aggressive road rides. Your buddies will appreciate your full-coverage fenders on days that the roads are wet, and you’ll appreciate being able to win a hill climb or city-limit sign sprint against those knuckleheads.

Add S & S travel couplings to your Cooper and you can take all of this versatility with you on business trips and family vacations without paying for oversized baggage at the airport.

Lynskey Titanium ProCross

By the way, Lynskey also makes a super-deluxe version of the Cooper CX called the ProCross. The ProCross uses the cool helix-shaped twisted tubes like on their top-of-line Helix road bikes. By using these funky tubes, Lynskey gives the ProCross a stiffer and snappier ride quality. The ProCross will be the quicker bike for weekend cross racing, and should be just as fast as any road bike with just a tire swap.

Lynskey Touring

Lynskey Backroads

Lynskey is custom titanium. If you can imagine it, they can build it. Want curved tubes? No problem. Custom kickstand mount? O.K. Paint? Bare titanium? Polished Ti? You got it.

The Lynskey Backroad touring frame is designed for fully loaded, self-supported, transcontinental touring and takes full advantage of current component innovation (disc brakes). Disc brakes stop more reliably than standard touring cantilevers or V-brakes, and they stop reliably even in wet weather or with broken spokes.

Custom Lynskey touring

Disc brakes or rim brakes

Internal wiring for rear light

The Lynskey family began as Litespeed years ago, and now sell their bikes under the family name. We stock a handful of their bikes for you to ride, and can help you design the custom bike of your dreams.

S&S couplers, internal wiring ports for generator lights and Di2 shifting can be added to Lynskey touring frames for added versatility.

Ritchey Swiss Cross

The legend is back! Ritchey has bent to popular demand and brought back their Swiss Cross cyclocross bike.

Like the original, this one is made out of highly manipulated steel tubing with all of the strength you would expect from a Ritchey product, but with a frame weight under 4 pounds. It comes with Ritchey’s WCS carbon cross fork, and runs $1299 for frame, fork and headset.

We have a size run in stock, but this bike will be in short supply. If you want to reserve one for yourself, call us with a deposit today.

Retrotec and Inglis Cross

Retrotec Triple model

Twin model cross

Interested in a cross bike or a commuter that will turn heads?

Want something just a little different, maybe with disc brakes or a single speed? Do you want fender mounts, rack mounts, a custom light bracket, or more room for wide tires?

Maybe you’re just too damn tall, and your current bike was made for a shrimp. You want to go custom this time.

Retrotec triple style

Disc brake or cantilever

Get precisely what you want. Have Curtis make an Inglis or Retrotec cross bike specifically for you.

If you can imagine it, chances are that Curtis can build it. He utilizes many different techniques (lugs, tig welds, fillet brazing) and many different tubing styles to make your dream bike.

Cowbells & other cyclocross fan gear

Genuine Moen Norwegian cowbells

Scarf? Check. Cowbell? Check. Cyclocross? Check.

Cyclocross crowd with Zach heads

We’re big supporters of all things cyclocross, so we have the supplies that you may need for spectating our favorite cycling spectacle.

There are the custom Moen cowbells, made in Norway from spent military ammunition casings. First made famous at the Lillehammer winter Olympics. Why cowbells? Well, cyclocross is a fall and winter sport. When it is cold out, and you’re wearing mittens, clapping for your race favorite really isn’t an option…

We have thermafleece hats and scarves to keep you warm while hanging out in the beer garden, or watching the action at the barriers.

No umbrellas yet, we’re working on it.

Want a piece of the Pacific Northwest, but don’t live here? We will ship our Classic Cycle gear and souvenir Seattle and Bainbridge jerseys to you. Call for current stock and prices.

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You may have noticed that many of the bikes on our website are lacking prices.
We also seem to be missing an “add to shopping cart” button.
These omissions are purposeful.
We like bikes. We like you. We want you to ride a bicycle that works well, fits you correctly, and is appropriate for the kinds of riding that you like to do.
We can’t make all of this happen through a website.
If you want a new bike, come in to Classic Cycle. Talk to us. Touch the bicycles. You can ride around Winslow, and see what the different models have to offer.
Come in to the shop, and Gavin will make some adjustments to the bike to make it fit just right (and tell you about the time he won that race in Sicily while he’s at it).
Sit at our bar and watch bike racing on the television or experience a bit of our little museum.
Spend some time here so that Jaime can show you clothing and accessories that will resolve the little issues that nag at you while you ride.
Paul will assemble your bike with the same attention to detail that went into building bikes for two Olympic Games and countless professional racers.
Leave the UPS guy alone. He can’t help you put that mail-order bike together…

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