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All SBC items are 20% off until December 24. Happy Holidays to our Customers

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You heard it right! Everyone seemed so happy and excited to get their hands on our SBC jerseys during the Downtown Renaissance Holiday Gift Blitz that we decided to start our own sale for the last two weeks leading up to the holidays. From now until December 24 you can purchase any SBC items for 20 percent off the regular retail price! This includes any SBC items in the store such as: Men's and Women's Sugoi Jerseys, IBX short sleeve Jerseys, Sugoi Men's shorts/bib shorts, Women's Sugoi Shorts, Defeet arm warmers, Defeet socks, Pint glasses, T-shirts, visors, hats, children's onesies, sweatshirts, and water bottles. We are happy to ship these items to anyone anywhere. Simply give us a call (540) 437-9000 and we can take credit card info over the phone. Any of these items make great holiday gifts and allow you to show off your favorite bike shop! Hurry, we have low inventory levels on some of these items, offer is only good on what we have in the store!

North American Handmade Bike Show in Richmond, VA

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Sweet bikes, cool town and awesome people.                  

USA Made Cycling products

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Sustainable products produced in the United States have become harder and harder to find these days but here at SBC we still try our best to stock products by companies who care about their impact on the world. Products made in the USA do create and preserve US jobs but that is only a fraction of the argument. Garments produced here ensure that the workers are paid a livable wage and work under decent conditions. This is in stark contrast to many of the other garments that we wear when they are produced in nameless factories overseas. Our primary bike line, Trek , the largest bike company in the country is the only major bicycle company to still make ANY frames in the United States. All high end Trek OCLV carbon road and mountain bikes are STILL made in Trek's Waterloo Wisconsin factory. All Madone frames starting at the 5.1 and above are made in the good ol US of A. If you are interested in biking at night either on the road or the trails you should look into Light and Motio

Bicycle Movie Night

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Saturday February the 6th @ 7:30 is the annual Bicycle Movie night,  This year the film will be screened at the Court Square Theater American Flyers, and hopefully some local footage will be shown.  This event is a fundraiser for the Shenandoah Valley Bicycle Coalition and the Blue Ridge Food Bank and costs either $9 or $7 if you bring 2 items of canned food.     As always the Movie is in Conjunction with the SuperBowl Sunday Ride. Either leave from the South 42 Food Lion at 8:45 or meet at the Briery Branch community center at 10:00  This is a fun group mt bike ride up to the reddish saddle and onto Flagpole knob before descending one of the single-track trails off the mountain.

SBC Handbuilt Wheels!!!! ENO Hubs-turn any vertical drop out frame into a SS/Fixed Gear

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Here at SBC we have the ability and lots of practice building wheels so if you ever want a special wheel for your bike pick out the hub spokes and rim (we'll be happy to help you) and come on down to the shop to get one of our highly skilled wheel builders to lace it up, bring it up to tension and finalize it for you. The bike featured in these pictures is a FUJI road bike that is a few years old. Our customer had us build him a wheel with a White Industries ENO hub . The ENO hub allows you to turn any bike with vertical dropouts into a Singlespeed or Fixed gear bike. The ENO is an eccentric hub that allows you to tension the chain through the hub rather than moving the wheel back on horizontal dropouts. Notice that this is a team issue JV SQUAD bicycle, one of very few!