Here’s a little teaser of what to expect from the Stanridge Speed team at Red Hook Crit this year. I’m sure you’re wondering why there are magnets all over the skinsuit but you’ll have to wait for the story… Let’s just say Death Spray Custom went all out with this one and Endo‘s delivering the goods.
Man, I think this is the first time I’ve seen the Phil Wood cranks on a photographed bike and they look great. Here’s the newest from Stanridge Speed. Thanks for sending this over, Adam.
Photo by Dan Chabanov
Give me a street-thrashed track bike over a wiped and polished wall hanger anyday. Dan’s 2012 Red Hook Crit Brooklyn-winning Stanridge Speed track bike has seen some time on the NYC streets. Love this photo Dan, dead rat and all.
Here’s the newest teaser from Stanridge Speed, featuring Taylor and his new cross bike.
Photo by Brandon Jones
I’m a sucker for a sleek, black track bike, especially one that’s been photographed as well as this new Stanridge High Street Pursuit. This one needs those black Phil Wood cranks though!
Adam from Stanridge Speed shared this video earlier today. It’s only a teaser but watch as Giorgio explains why he chose Stanridge to build him a track bike.
Stanridge Speed now has two Red Hook Crits under their rider’s bibs. This year in Milano, Evan Murphy took first. See the rest of the results here.
Over the past year or so, I’ve become pretty good friends with Adam Eldridge of Stanridge Speed, so it was nice to stop in and see his shop while I was in Columbus visiting Lauren’s family. To call his facilities small and intimate is an understatement. His shop is tucked away inside a community work space. A giant, 8,000sqft warehouse nestled inside a recently renovated park. He has no heat and his walls are made from corrugated metal.
Through the flickering florescent lighting, he mitres, brazes, finishes and paints his bicycle frames before sending them out all over the world. While his Highstreet may be the most popular frame, his passion is falling into cross bikes and road bikes. He likes frames that require problem solving… I documented his facilities the best I could with my 5D and my Hasselblad, which proved to be no easy task. But I feel it really captures the spirit of Stanridge Speed.
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Adam from Stanridge Speed is most known for his Highstreet low pro track frames but his new passion lies in cyclocross bikes and this year, he’s got a special someone racing for him. Tim Rugg is an experienced road racer, at the PRO level but has yet to try his hand at ‘cross. Adam reached out to him, before his maiden season to see if he wanted to race a Stanridge Speed. Once he obliged, Adam got to work, fabricating this beaut. Since the bike wasn’t built up when I visited Adam, I simply asked him to hold the frame under a massive skylight in his warehouse.
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I’m in Ohio, visiting some of Lauren’s family and the first thing I thought was “who’s in Columbus that I can visit?”. Of course, Stanridge Speed! The first night we were here, I met up with Adam for a glass of Basil Hayden’s and yesterday, I swung by his shop to take some photos. While I wait on my 120 film to get developed, here are two from my 5Dmkii.
A little backstory on these two photos. Adam lost his finger when he was a kid, playing on an exercise bike. Maybe that’s what drove him to a life-long love affair with bikes? Funny, when I think of traumatizing events striking children, it usually distills fear, not fascination. And that flask was a gift, along with a bottle of Blanton’s. Man, what a nice guy!
I can only hope my photos do his space justice. More to come…
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