Ride For Jacob: The Bikes

We saw some pretty interesting bikes at the Ride For Jacob last weekend. I was able to get shots of most of them at our Janesville stop. For a few others I relied on shots from Kevin Fox. They are not posed shots so don't expect anything "professional" here!

No drive side, cranks level, tire patches down stuff here. Just some dusty bicycles in situ. If this trips your trigger then read on. If this offends your sensibilities, well you may want to skip this post and perhaps we'll see ya some other day here on the ol' blog. 

So, with that said, here are the thirteen bicycles used on the Ride For Jacob. 

Rob Evans Otso single speed

Kevin Fox said this doubles as his bike packing bike

Jackie's custom painted Stormchaser

Steve's rare Salsa Cycles Titanium La Cruz. I've only ever seen two of these. 

Doug's Salsa Cycles Journeyman

Tony's Titanium Fargo with a custom WaltWorks steel fork

Tom's Crust Bikes Evasion single speed

Dan's Soul Craft Rohloff drop bar bike

Justin's Lauf True Grit

Jason's W.H. Bradford Designs flat bar gravel bike with Black Sheep titanium handlebar

Dave's Lynskey titanium bike with a Lauf fork. (Image by Kevin Fox)

N.Y. Roll with his drop bar Otso Voytek (Image by Kevin Fox)

Of course, this is my Singular Cycles Peregrine Mk4

And there you have it! Quite the eclectic collection of bicycles. We had MTB drop bar conversions from Trans Iowa, (Kevin's) to rare birds, (Steve's Ti La Cruz), to your "average gravel bike" (Doug's Journeyman), and even a custom bike or two (Jason's W.H.B. Designs, Dan's Soul Craft) 

Single speeds, IGH, and 1X and 2X. Flat bar, drop bar, and weird-bar (Jason's). It just goes to show you that any bike can be a gravel bike as long as it is a bike you like. (Poetry?) Anyway, this is what gravel cycling is all about. Bikes, good people, and FUN.  

Look for a special Virtual Ride For Jacob post tomorrow.