Today, we present a recap of the 2024 LA Invitational put on by all the lovely folks over at The Cub House in Los Angeles, CA. In a slightly different format than our typical event Reportage, the team gathered stories from various participants, who recounted harrowing and ecstatic experiences while out riding the event routes. Then, they conclude with a gallery of drool-worthy two- and four-wheeled machines from the bike and car show portion. Let’s check it out below!
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Radar Roundup: Team Dream Winter Drop, Rune Bicycles Rufus Stone Pre-Order, Hold Fast and PTAP Designs, Farewell Update, Cascada Lakewood Adventure Pants, Rogue Panda is Hiring, and Ride with GPS Three Months Free
Our Radar Roundup compiles products and videos from the ‘net in an easy-to-digest format. Read on below for today’s findings…
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2023 MADE Bike Showdown: ALUMIWARS – Beach Club Al Dente Gravel Bike Vs. Ron’s Bikes AluMAX Grav Grav Bike
We interrupt our ongoing MADE coverage with an important announcement!
When carbon bicycle frames were first introduced, the evil carbon fiber bike industry did all it could to bad-mouth aluminum bikes. It took decades, but we’re seeing an abrupt re-emergence of aluminum frames, particularly from smaller cottage industry brands like Beach Club and Ron’s Bikes.
Growing up in the 1990s, it was common for publications like Mountain Bike Action to do “shootouts” between two aluminum bikes. So, we at The Radavist thought it’d be fun to pit two of our favorite companies against each other in a democratic voting process. Check out our ALUMIWARS Shootout Special featuring sneak peeks at the forthcoming Beach Club Al Dente aluminum gravel bike and the Ron’s Bikes AluMAX grav grav daddy bike…
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Bike Rides and Block Parties at The Cub House: The 2023 LA Invitational
Wowzers… Okay! Sean Talkington of Team Dream coming in a bit late on this one but hopefully it is worth the wait?! It’s been two months since the second installment of the Los Angeles Invitational, a two-day event hosted at The Cub House that included a day of riding on Saturday, then a Bicycle/Car Show and parts swap turned block party extravaganza on Sunday. This started off eight years ago as a half-baked and half-assed excuse to BBQ with friends and sell some old bike stuff. It has somehow grown into a pretty sensational (though maybe still a bit half-assed), fully-loaded weekend for thousands of people to enjoy. I can’t believe we pulled it off again AND managed to do it even bigger this year. Read on for a recap of the festivities, check out the video, and be sure to peruse the stacked gallery of cars and bikes from Traece Craig and Thibault Linossier.
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Radar Roundup: C_O_A_T_Z x Beach Club x Team Dream, Suplest Shoes North America, Fearless Vulture Ti, Wolf Tooth Reserve Restock, ENVE Alloy Stem, Skratch Crispy Rice, and Vision of the Hawk
Our Radar Roundup compiles products and videos from the ‘net in an easy-to-digest format. Read on below for today’s findings…
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A Weekend at The Cub House’s 2022 LA Invitational
Los Angeles is home to one of the most diverse and eclectic cycling communities in the world. People from all walks of life have found that the bicycle is by far the best way to traverse this sprawling urban mass, nestled between the Pacific Ocean and the San Gabriel mountains. Catering to this community are a number of bike shops, but one of our favs is The Cub House, which over the years has played host to a number of fun events, most notably the bike and car shows! To up the ante this year, Sean, Carla, Danny, and the team at The Cub House hosted the LA Invitational, a Euro spin on the weekend which included big rides on Saturday and the bike and car show on Sunday. John and Josh made it out to the City of Angels to document the people, bikes, rides, and more, so check out a chubby gallery and some words from John below!
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Radar Roundup: Santa Fe Bike Swap, Essplanade Shirt, Is Rapha Hype?, Levante Wheelset, and LA Invitational
Our Radar Roundup compiles products and videos from the ‘net in an easy-to-digest format. Read on below for today’s findings…
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Radar Roundup
We’re back with another Radar Roundup where we take some of the news items to come across our inboxes into an easy-to-digest dump of sorts, culling down the clutter from our homepage and making it easier to stay on top of what’s going on in our little corner of the cycling industry. This will come particularly in handy when it comes to spring/summer product drops from our favorite brands.
Check out our Radar Roundup below with products, videos, and a Radavision entry…
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This Cub House Built Crust Bikes Lightning Bolt Cruiser Shines!
What do you get when Bené, aka Ultra Romance, aka Ronnie McFly, aka Glistening Gandolf coerces an XC/roadie racer boi into embracing the long and slow lifestyle? Well, you’re about to find out. While Benedict and Sean from Team Dream were working closely on those nifty merino wool bib shorts, Benedict convinced Sean with his silver tongue to build up a dream bike. A veritable ex-roadie 2.0 cruiser, complete with all the iconic componentry of MTB and randonneuring’s heyday, which pinch me if I’m wrong, is always the present time. What you see here is the result of much toodlin’ and many man hours spent scrounging for parts. All aboard a Crust Bikes Lightning Bolt.
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SPLATTERDAY! a SWRVE and Team Dream Party in Los Angeles Tomorrow!
This Saturday, June 8th, SWRVE and Team Dream are throwing a party at high noon to celebrate their newest capsule collection together which includes all made in Los Angeles apparel and accessories. Be sure to swing by!
The Cub House
2510 Mission St
San Marino, CA 91108
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Danny’s Stinner Root Beer Dream Stinner Road with Mavic Carbon Open Pros
NAHBS is back in Sacramento this year and having only walked around the hall during setup yesterday, I can already tell the convention center is jam-packed with builders and brands from all over the US, yet it’s hard to deny the strong California presence. While Stinner Frameworks is not showing this year, Team Dream and Mavic Cycling are.
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The Team Dream Surprise Holiday Launch Release
Team Dream has been brewing a massive holiday launch over the past few weeks. Well, it’s all in stock now, ranging from socks to sweatshirts and kits. Head on over to get the jump on the Team Dream Surprise Holiday Launch Release.
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Team Dream Summer Launch is Coming
Each year I look forward to seeing what designs the folks at Team Dream think up and this year’s summer launch is lookin’ good. Keep your eyes on Team Dream come Monday for their summer launch. Check out this BTS video and a few previews below.
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Team Dream’s Mini-Spring Drop Features Some Heavy-Hittin’ Designs
From Buck Knives to long sleeves and tie dye, the other new products, the latest drop from Team Dream is worth your eyes. Head to their web shop to see more!
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Mason’s Stinner Kerouac On the Road with SRAM Red eTap
“Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.” – Jack Kerouac, On the Road
We all have our favorite authors, our favorite books, and our favorite quotes. Many of these anecdotes for travel or life’s great lessons can be applied to cycling. For Mason, he was drawn to the writing of Jack Kerouac. Particularly, On the Road. This quote became his mantra for his new Stinner Gibraltar road bike. Mason selected one of Stinner’s “Vault” paint options, Paradise, and requested the Team Dream Team Chubby Bobcat to be added to the wild paint scheme. This little detail, along with his Kerouac quote really brought the whole build together. Not to mention the SRAM Red eTap, Boyd Wheels and Quarq power meter cranks. The whole package was assembled by Simon at the Cub House.
Straight up road bikes still do it for me, especially when they’re this clean, this light and this local. I love seeing all the Stinners on the roads of Los Angeles, both paved and unpaved.
Enjoy this bike, Mason!
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LA Times Article on Team Dream and Chinese Counterfeiting
Photo by Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times
“Team Dream is a small business by most any measure.
The quirky cycling apparel brand has just five employees. It produces only about 100 pieces of each garment and operates out of a converted gas station in San Marino, where a closet-sized nook doubles as both a fulfillment center and R&D lab. Its founder, Sean Talkington, has taken in no outside investment and only applied for his first credit card a few years ago because his bank told him he needed one to operate a retail store.
“We’re a blip,” Talkington said. So it came as a shock one day to learn that Team Dream clothing was being counterfeited and sold on a major Chinese e-commerce site.
Piracy was a problem that befell big brands such as Nike and Adidas, Talkington thought, not upstarts like Team Dream, which has no advertising budget and got its start selling clothes out of a 1970 Volkswagen bus.”
Continue reading this article at the LA Times. Thanks to Ben for sending this over!
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Team Dream’s Winter Temperature Product DROP
To coincide with the dropping winter temps, our friends at Team Dream just dropped their entire winter line at their webshop, with something for everyone. Head over to the Team Dream Webshop to see the entire collection. I love the colors!
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The Boys Are Back at the Tour
… and it looks like they’re having a blast. See more at @TeamDreamTeam.