Cleaveland Mountaineering Christmas Sale!

by | Oct 30, 2013 | Uncategorized

Cleaveland Mountaineering Christmas Sale! Custom frame bag base price – $90 (save $20).Everything Bags – $50 each WITH P clamps (down from $60) or $45 each without P clamps. Things in stock right now: 1 new blue VX42 seat bag – $901 used blue VX42...

There and Back Again, A Moots Tale

by | Oct 25, 2013 | Uncategorized

Here’s a fun little story my wife and I wrote about her new to us Moots YBB frame.  Its a major testament to Titanium as a frame material that it lived at the bottom of a lake for about a decade and emerged in great riding condition. Check it out over at the...

Bike Access Adventure Climbing

by | Oct 17, 2013 | Uncategorized

Recently, two other bearded adventurers and myself headed off to seek our fortune and celebrate self reliance and the Freedom of the Hills. Our bikes were laden with just enough climbing gear and provisions for about 600 feet of adventure climbing.  We set off down...

Alpine Wanderings

by | Aug 16, 2013 | Uncategorized

The last two weekends, we got up to the mountains.  First we went to Telluride with my wife’s dad and explored an old mining building at the end of a long hike.  The next weekend The Beard and I hiked a couple semi-technical 13,000 foot peaks in Lake City.  We...

Snare Lakes

by | Jul 22, 2013 | Uncategorized

Back in 2009 I rode up to Snare Lakes with frame bag version 1.  For years I’ve been dreaming of linking the Snare Lakes road in to the Colorado Trail.  It finally happened. I was armed with food and water for a long day, plus a custom shoulder strap for the...

Pink Camo Krampus

by | Jun 11, 2013 | Uncategorized

This one is too good not to share.If you’re not into pink mauve camo fabric, I just got in an order of black VX21, black V51, and have a lot of blue VX42 around...

Summer!

by | May 17, 2013 | Uncategorized

The infamous Jr year of Mechanical Engineering school is finally over.Here’s a few pictures from recent rides and a sweet new frame bag and bike recovery project. Yes, that is a turbocharger turned into a homemade jet turbine engine mounted to a barbecue –...

Australia

by | Apr 1, 2013 | Uncategorized

Look closely, there’s two Cleaveland Mountaineering frame bags on this trip in Australia.  One on a Yeti and one on a Specialized Epic.http://blog.neilennis.com/?p=3711

Spring Break

by | Mar 30, 2013 | Uncategorized

Spring Break – a bit of backpacking with my lovely wife, some sewing, homework, and even mechanic work on the air brake system of a huge front end loader.First the part you all care about:A Tour Divide bound frame bag for an XL El Mariachi, made tough with #10...

Everything Bags!

by | Jan 22, 2013 | Uncategorized

We’re now testing out Everything Bags mounted to undrilled and suspension forks.Large P clamps are hard to find – we had to order them in bulk from Grainger, so you can get them with your Everything Bag order for an extra $10 per bag.They’re great...