Cyclocross, Gravel & Touring

Lynskey GR 270

Lynskey GR270

If you’re only going to have one bike to do it all, the GR270 is a great choice.

A great commuter bike for riders in the Pacific Northwest, the GR270 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 GR270 and install 32mm knobby tires and you get a great cyclocross racer. Put 47mm wide tires on it and you can ride rutted logging roads and gravel in comfort for hours.  The disc brakes won’t pack up with mud like old cantilevers did, so slowing down on a muddy path won’t be quite so scary.   If you’re careless with your bike or crash it, the bare titanium won’t look nearly as beat up as a painted bike.

Lynskey USA

Lynskey fork

Etched graphics

Stop in and we’ll configure the bike just the way you want it. We’ll start with a bike fitting to make sure everything will handle right and fit precisely the way it should.
For the build out, we can do it with all new parts or mix in the components that you love from your old bike. We get the framesets from Lynskey and then put them together just the way you like. The frame comes in a number of different finish options with decals or etched graphics.

Felt VR Series

Felt VR 3

Felt has done it.
Felt Bicycles now makes the ultimate performance bike for the indecisive.

Part of a broad trend to make high-performance road bikes more versatile, these VR series bikes are amazing. They’re stable (and geared low enough) to tour on, tough enough (and equipped with rack and fender mounts) so you can commute with them, and fast enough to race.
Starting under $1000 for the aluminum-frame VR60 and topping out with the $5400 carbon-fiber VR2 with Ultegra electronic equipment, there are 8 levels of supremely capable and comfortable performance from which to pick.

What makes these bikes so versatile is a combination of frame materials, frame geometry and component picks.

The VR30

VR30 in blue

Felt VR4

The bikes are super light like any good racing bike thanks to hydroformed butted aluminum on the sub-$2000 models and high-level carbon fiber construction on the more expensive models. The frame geometry (taller head tube, mid-length wheelbase, slack head angle) gives you stable handling without losing the racing-bike snap.

VR40 in green

The VR40 in peach

The wide 28mm to 35mm road tires deliver all-day comfort and extra flat protection, and the sub-compact gearing (cranksets with 30 tooth small and 46 tooth big chainrings) make pack touring and steep hill riding possible. Although every version has disc brakes (which add weight), the entry-level VR60 is only 22 pounds, and most of the carbon-fiber versions tip the scales between 17 and 19 pounds!

Colnago Prestige Cyclocross

Colnago Prestige cyclocross

Colnago and racers like Sven Nys and Wout van Aert have been at the top of the cyclocross world for decades.

Colnago makes the best performing, most stylish and safest cross bikes in the world.  Great handling with the best forks ever made for cyclocross, flat sections 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.

Works with internal Di2 wiring or traditional cables

The Prestige even gets used on the road occasionally. The UAE team raced  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:  At $2200, Prestige framesets run about $200 more than Felt’s top of the line, but Colnago makes theirs in twice the size increments and they come with headsets and a Colnago coffee mug.

Kona Rove NRB

Kona Rove NRB

This is the Kona NRB. It’s what the kids are calling a “Gravel Bike” these days. Kona thinks it’s the definition of a New Road Bike (NRB), and they may be right.

Road bikes are more versatile than ever. A lot of them, like this Kona, have wheels for pavement as well as dirt. They have disc brakes, wide handlebars and lots of attachment points in case you feel like installing racks, fenders, or other storage packs.

The tires on these bikes measure a whopping 47mm wide (on a 650b size rim) so you get a very stable, really comfortable, and surprisingly fast ride.

The Rove NRB DL

There’s also the Rove NRB DL. I think the “DL” stands for delicious, but I think I’ll pass on testing that theory.

The DL version has hydraulic disc brakes, Shimano Ultegra shifting, and a really great looking gold paint job.

Marin Gestalt

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.

Surly Long Haul Trucker

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).

Custom Long Haul Trucker

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.

All-City Space Horse

All-City Space Horse

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. Kona makes the Rove and Surly has the Long Haul Trucker, but you may want something a little more unique. 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).

All-City has it all figured out. This bike takes disc brakes and uses modern handlebar stems and headsets. The Space Horse frameset gives you the all-day comfort of the Kona Rove and comes in the versatile frame-only option like a Surly, without the goofy Rivendell quirks. The Space Horse 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 flat-plate crown.
Buy the Space Horse as a frameset or have us build it up with your favorite parts (the pictured bike came out for less than $1600).
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Breezer Doppler Pro

Breezer Doppler Pro

This is a great bike for century rides, long commutes, short commutes, and just regular road rides with your friends.

This is a bike designed perfectly for the vast majority of Pacific Northwest riders.

If you can get over your whole “I might need a bike for a triathlon someday” delusion, this is the bike for you. Fenders and cromoly tubing may not be very aerodynamic, but they sure make your bike ride a pleasant experience.

This bike has randoneering frame geometry, meaning that it’s a road bike with touring geometry that has been tweaked just a bit. The bike is comfortable for really long rides, and it will carry all of your gear without becoming too squirrely. The wheels are the 650b size with 47mm wide tires and Breezer has still managed to fit fenders on the bike. The frame is made out of cromoly steel, which delivers a springy, compliant ride quality.

The Doppler has everything you want. It comes with stainless steel fenders, a compact crank (with a 32/48 tooth gear range), a WTB Volt saddle, Shimano Tiagra components and TRP cable-actuated hydraulic disc brakes.

Ritchey Breakaway Cross & Outback

Breakaway Cross/Touring

These are the Swiss Army Knives of bicycles. Versatile, comfortable and fast, these bikes can be used for nearly every cycling scenario you can dream up.

Breakaway Steel Cross and Outback models usually get built up as “Gravel” bikes with knobby tires, low gear ranges and upright positioning, making them ideal for off-road touring and foreign adventures. That said, they handle really well on the road too, so a set of slick tires will turn these models into great choices for touring or commuting. Wanna race? The framesets are super light, they sprint and climb well (even if you don’t) so try one of the Seattle Cyclocross events or the Whistler Gran Fondo on your Ritchey. Flat bars, drop bars, 42mm wide knobbies or 25mm slicks, the configurations are almost limitless.

Outback Carbon with disc brakes

These Ritcheys come with a suitcase, and the big feature with the bikes is that they disassemble and fit into this case so you can take them with you wherever you go. The frame coupling system is secure and really simple, and we can show you how to pack your bike up and travel with them. The travel case flies under the radar (so to speak) so you won’t get hit up for oversize baggage fees like you would when flying with a standard bike.

The coupling system is slick. The frame, which comes apart into two pieces, is joined at the top by the seatpost (and you can use a carbon fiber seatpost if you want, it’s plenty strong) and a small clamp on the downtube. It’s a simple design, and probably more secure than the bulky S & S coupling system used by most custom frame builders. 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.

Frame clamp and cable connectors

Ritchey Break-Away cross frames designed for cantilever-style brakes are made out of custom heat treated cromoly tubing and come a with carbon fork. The Outback model framesets are all carbon and are designed around disc brakes (mechanical or hydraulic). Both styles come in a wide range of sizes.

A travel-ready hybrid

Steel cross with Rival

Ultegra build

Sram parts on a steel frame. Only 19lbs!

Outback with Di2 and hydraulic brakes

Paul’s 15lb old titanium version

These bikes are semi-custom since they come to us as framesets. Here are a few of the builds we have done over the years (click on the thumbnail images to enlarge them).

Steel framesets run $1500 so complete bikes usually run between $2400 and $4500. The Outback frame is $3100, so a whole bike would usually run between $4000 and $5500. Have donor parts from an old bike or a dusty corner of your garage? Bring in what you have and we’ll sketch out a build list.

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

Breezer Radar Pro

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 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 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 late ’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.

Marin Nicasio

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″

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.

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.

If you’re between 5’2″ and 5’6″ tall we have a good deal available.  Our floor model Cross Check is now $400 less than msrp.  All yours for around $1200.

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.

Surly Straggler

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.

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 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.

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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.

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.

About our website…

Buy it now

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…