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With the new year comes many exciting projects here at Six-Eleven Bicycle Co. A couple of them you’ll be hearing about in the next couple of weeks, and others are long term projects inspired by people doing great things across the country.
Aaron is 3 months into having an employee, and if I must say so myself, I think it’s going well! I am now handling all email correspondence and ordering, and I appreciate everyone’s patience and enthusiasm as we’ve made the switch. We’ve got a great lineup of bikes already planned for 2012, including some local bikes, like a road frame with DI2 for LD and a road frame for LW, plus a track bike for RT in northern VA, and that’s all slated for the next month! Lots of road and touring builds in 2012 - am I sensing a trend? We’re also working on new merchandise for this year, including new shirts and a few other items that will be posted to the webstore.
One of the things that we have to do every so often is adjust our pricing slightly to keep up with the cost materials and overhead. Although no one wants to raise prices, we do want to keep the lights on here at the Six-Eleven Bicycle Co. shop, so we hope you’ll bear with us as we make some slight pricing adjustments for orders placed in 2012. Actual 2012 prices will be posted in the next week or two, but of course all deposits that have already been received are locked into the current 2011 pricing structure. So until we get the new prices up on the website…
There’s good news! The price increase is not going to go into effect until January 31. So that means that all deposits received on or before January 31 are eligible for 2011 pricing! As a reminder, current pricing is as follows:
Track frames start at $1950
Road frames start at $2050
Tour / CX / Rando / 29er frames start at $2150
All prices include a single color paint job, and custom steel forks currently start at $300.
Get in on 2011 pricing by submitting your deposit by January 31! For questions or inquiries, email me (Michelle) at [michelle at sixelevenbicycleco.com].
In other exciting news, here’s a sneak peek of a 2012 NAHBS bike that is being sent to paint this week.
I’ll work on getting more NAHBS bike sneak peeks posted as we wrap them up.
Thanks for reading, and we are looking forward to a creative and inspired 2012!
-Michelle
2012 - Already making a name for itself
I hope you all had a wonderful New Year celebration. As for Aaron and I, if you were looking for us on Saturday or Sunday, we could be found either at our local urgent care or holed up in our house with the dogs barking at the new aluminum toys Aaron brought home with him. Yes, at 1:00 on Saturday afternoon, long before either of us had even begun to think about a glass of celebratory champagne, Aaron broke his foot. We are still working on constructing a believable story that possibly involves fending off a pack of bike thieves with only his bare feet, or saving a grandmother from a wild hooligan deer attack. But until then, know that it was in the middle of the day, we were still drinking coffee, and at least 3 people have told us that he needs to come up with a better story than what actually happened. 
The dogs think the crutches are a distant cousin to our vacuum cleaner, and they stand in front of him and bark incessantly whenever Aaron tries to maneuver through the house on them. Ever the bike builder, Aaron added some Oury grips for comfort. 
The doctor said there that his foot will take 6 weeks to heal, and that all they can really do for it is to put it in a fracture shoe. I guess the shoe is better than a cast - could you imagine if metal shavings got down in a cast? Heres hoping that 2012 came in like a lion but goes out like a lamb!
Another bike getting ready to be shipped to the West Coast! We got this bike back in the shop late Friday night thanks to a long drive by Hill Clarke and his wife, Jenny, of Airglow. I think there’s room for a “Twas the night before the night before Christmas” or “Over the river and through the woods” poem there, but I’ll spare you.
So without further ado, here’s a preview of JP’s Road Bike! The colors are beautiful - a shimmery silver, dark charcoal, and magenta to compliment the brass work. A monostay design allowed for lots of additional lug lining, and the custom stem brings brass to the front of the bike, balancing out the brass on the chain guard. We’ll post full photos on the site and on the blog once JP has had a chance to see it! We almost got it to you under the Christmas Tree!
Happy Holidays from Six-Eleven!
As many of you are winding down for a long holiday weekend, we wanted to take a minute to thank you all for your support of Six-Eleven Bicycle Co. We’re so grateful for our clients, friends, and fans of Six-Eleven, and we wish you all a happy holiday season and a joyous and prosperous 2012.
The shop will be open normal hours Friday, 12/23 and Monday, 12/26. So if you’re in Roanoke for a trip home to visit family, please stop in and see us. We’ll be here 10:00 - late both days.
Also, be on the lookout for several new bikes on the blog next week and the first week of the new year. We’ve had a hold up at paint, and have 3 bikes being delivered tomorrow. So we’ll get photos and descriptions up soon! We’ve got a beautiful set of his and her road bikes and a unique lugged frame, fork and stem with some interesting details to get to you. Sorry for the delay!
NAHBS bikes are in full swing, and you’ll hear it here first: we’ve got a cx, road bike, track frame, and city bike planned for this year’s NAHBS, all with a little something special thrown in. It’s a busy time of year!
December 20, 2011
Well, now I’ve really done it. I spilled a glass of water on my computer. I blew it out with an air compressor and set it in a box of rice overnight, but when I tried to turn it on… nothing. So please forgive the intermittent posting until I get something new up and running.
In the meantime, check out DC’s welcoming of a new velodrome, the famous Vandedrome. First seen on Prolly in early December, the DC Velodrome is a non-profit looking to eventually pave the way for a permanent track in DC. The Vandedrome has been making the blog rounds over the past few years as it was hunting for a home, and we’re excited to see that it’s making its way to the East Coast. According to dcvelodrome.org, we don’t yet know the intended site for the track, but if you follow @dcvelodrome on Twitter, an exciting announcement is supposed to be made soon.
More information on Urban Velo today.
-Michelle