Our Ladies’ Night at the bike shop this year was a wonderful success.

Our definition of success here is not measured by attendance or by how many bikes we sold. We gauge success by seeing our customers get more comfortable on their bikes and get more connected with the cycling community. It was great to see such a range of ages and interests represented (and satisfied).

Lindsay from TrekWomen was fantastic.  It was refreshing to all of us “backstage” to hear all the good advice coming from another voice. She is great at her job – you could tell her presentation was salted with personal experience from start to finish.

And, being a woman herself, was able to connect with the audience better than we ever could.

Thank you to all the ladies who came out, to Lindsay and Josh from Trek Bikes, and huge thanks to Chrissy Deming for the wonderful photos.

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The new Trek Districts are arriving at NCC.

They are subtle and stocky. They are ideal commuter bikes – good tire clearance, eyelets galore, upright-but-not position, and internal cable routing keeps the bike running smooth is all sorts of ugly weather.

Check’em out.

My good friend J.D. brought back a saddle for me from Nepal. It looks pretty great on my Madone, don’tcha think?

It’s a tongue of car tire rubber stretched over a 3-coil steel frame. It weighs about 6lbs, but the comfort advantage is undeniable.

We’ve got some great new bags from Arkel, Bontrager, and Timbuk2.

Arkel has a couple bags that transform from pannier to backpack in no time:

The Bug:

And the Switchback:

Arkel also introduced a new errand bag called The Shopper this year – an invincible grocery getter:

Adding to our already impressive selection of grocery getters:

We also brought in a few of the new Timbuk2 Shift Pannier:

which… is brilliant.

We just received news that we will have access to the very (very) limited number of the Brooks/Vans collaborative Team Pro. This is a limited edition of 500 saddles in the world, with 200 being sold exclusively through Vans Stores and 300 through Supreme and Outstanding Brooks Dealers (that’s us).

The Vans shoes will be embossed with the same design and will be released in Vans Stores worldwide on Dec 1st.

The saddles will be available later this year for appx $320. If you are interested in one, please call and place a deposit asap. When we say limited, we mean it.

(photo credit: hypebeast.com)