Klink Cycles

Thanks for all the love on the Trash Panda at Alsea video! Here are a few stills from the day.

Again, the isn’t *designed* for singletrack, but taking a basketful of sodas up, down and over the trail demonstrates the truly novel frame design’s extraordinary ability to be both nimble and stable at the same time.

In support of our friends at Twilight Bicycle Race Series, we’re suspending this month’s shop social rides and encourage our friends to check out everyone’s favorite local racing series: Twilight CX at Oak Hill. Course opens at 4:30, racing starts at 5:30, ends by sunset (~6:50 pm).

Our shop rides will resume in October!

Before , Seth first realized his kitchen-sink-style dirt touring dreams with his trusty Soma Fabrications tradesman.

The big party piece here is a one-off, spring-loaded basket designed and built by maverick engineer WTH. The other custom part is the steel alt-bar, fabbed up by shop staff and framebuilder Leonardo Cruces, who would later build the “proto-panda.”

Seth made the most of the 20” front end by mounting the most aggressive 406bsd tire known to man—the Kenda Booster Pro—to a super-wide Alienationbmx Vandal rim. From the factory, those rims come drilled for both presta and schrader; naturally, he put in a tubeless valve for each. Rounding out the bikepacking-ready-build are the Alan K rear rack, Ron Andrews , and an alt-double drivetrain built on a well-worn old Deore crank.

Between bikepacking adventures, the Tradesman is also Seth’s daily driver, often running supplies to and from the shop and pulling a trailer to pop-up events around town.

Shop’s shut Saturday 8/22 so we can all go to MADE and show off the with Liminal Machine Works! Come find us at booth 18, right in the middle of the main hall. Maybe come ask us nerdy questions about chainstay length, rake, trail, and so on?

Shop ride this Wednesday! We’ll do the “short” loop of the river path, starting and ending at the shop, with refreshments after.

This ride will also be the WORLD PREMIERE of the Klink Cycles + Liminal Machine Works Trash Panda, a unique and innovative All-Terrain-Touring-Bike (ATTB), envisioned by Seth and manifested by Brian to fill an unoccupied niche in the bike ecosystem, somewhere between a heavy-duty cycletruck and a lightweight dirt-tourer.

If you’re based in Portland, you can of course come see the this weekend at MADE in booth 18, right in the middle of the main hall, along with a few other pieces of Brian’s best work, including Nico’s wild tandem.

Behold: Leo and his self-built bike. Leo came to Eugene to attend the cargo bike framebuilding apprenticeship program at the Center tor Appropriate Transport in 2009, and has been deeply rooted in the local bicycle and framebuilding scene since. Leo’s frame is one of two “proof of concept” bikes, built to test a combination of niche design concepts. The big party piece is the headtube-mounted rack, intended to deliver nimbler handling while fully loaded. Another is the elongated rear triangle, designed to offer more confidence (and thus speed) on the chonkiest of descents. There’s also several choice bits from AstralCycling Portland Design Works Onyx Racing Products and Ritchey -- Official. After riding this frame for about a year, he has several ideas for how to iterate…