Each year, Leave It On The Road plans epic self-organized rides all with the goal of raising money for cancer research. Since the the start in 2013 they have ridden tens of thousands of miles, and raised over $100,000 for cancer charities. This year they went to Ireland to ride 1000 miles in 10 days. To honor Conor Brady's father who created this route "The Big Lap" and lost his battle with cancer in 2013.

For the ride, we had the honor of building two custom Speedvagen Disc Road Bikes. Each with their on unique fine details. 

Conor's Build: White, Gold, and Pink

• Frameset: Speedvagen Road Disc, With Enve carbon seat tube and Enve 2.0 Fork 
• Groupset: Sram Red eTap Hydro
• Wheelset: Enve SES 3.4 w/  Painted to match DT Swiss 240 hubs
• Tires: Vittoria Corsa
• Headset: Chris King
• Handlebars: Enve
• Stem: Enve painted to match
• Seat Post Head: Enve painted to match
• Saddle: Fabric Scoop
• Skewers: Enve Ti
• Frame Pump: Silca Impero Ultimate

Tabtabai's Build: Pink, White and Gold

• Frameset: Speedvagen Road  Disc, With Enve carbon seat tube and Enve 2.0 Fork 
• Groupset: Shimano Dura-Ace 9100
• Wheelset: Enve SES 3.4 w/  Painted to match DT Swiss 240 hubs
• Tires: Continental Grand Prix 4000
• Headset: Chris King
• Handlebars: Enve
• Stem: Enve painted to match
• Seat Post Head: Enve painted to match
• Saddle: Fizik Arione 
• Bar Tape: Custom Busyman leather work.
• Bottle Cages: Enve Carbon
• Skewers: Enve Ti
• Frame Pump: Silca Impero Ultimate

Each year, since the start of Surprise Me, in 2009, we have built a shop bike with that year's scheme for our archive at the shop. With last year's being the loud pink and cyan design, we decided to go a little more understated for our 2017 bike. This year features three shades of grey, vermillion, and a deep red. The paint and design work for 2017 features an asymmetric polka dot pattern, with two bands of open circles cutting diagonally through the frame. Those open circles are painted by hand on top of the clear coat. This both gives texture and color to break up the polka dot pattern. Our shop bike also features our new Anodized Faceplate Kit. Check out the full gallery below.

Interested in a 2017 Surprise Me? Well its not too late, you have until the end of the year to order one. It can still be surprise custom color palette too. Email us at Info@speedvagen.com if you have any questions!

Early morning practice with sprint starts, targeting precise lines, and seamless mounts/dismounts. Race weekends, turning ourselves inside out, choosing our moment attack and digging to find another 10 minutes of maximum suffering even when we wanted to stop. And best of all, battling, laughing and crashing in the mud with friends. 

There's something special about the dedication that a racer brings to reach the pinnacle, contrasted with the humility and humor of racing in mud bogs, being heckled (lovingly?) on run-ups and the unknown that each race-day brings. 

And while we've found a new love in our Urban Racer and will always like long days in the saddle, we will never lose our connection to CX. 

You may or may not know that Vanilla and Speedvagen have been on the top step of the podium in national championships, more state championships than we can count, and have done battle in world championships and world cups. Our team started back in the very first days that Sacha was building bikes in a hole in the wall and has grown to include a tight family of racers in Japan, Australia and the US. 

Well, Cyclocross season coming up and we're just launched this year's team bikes.

With the OG1- and our new Urban Racer doing so well, we're opened up a batch of team bikes to the SV lovers in the world.

For the 2017 Cyclocross Team Issue we offered 3 paint offerings: Ghost graphics in Army, or Vanilla Blue and a new blocky, punchy, sassy team paint scheme that's an evolution of our super popular 2016 Surprise Me paint scheme.

You'll have a choice of components:

The CX-R with Sram Force 1 with super race-able Mavic Ksyrium Allroad Disc wheels, Pro Plt, painted to match stem and seatpost head, etc.

-or-

The CX-X with DuraAce Di2, Chris King, Enve, Easton's awesome new crank, XTR brake callipers and rear derailleur. The CX-X also comes with a set of hand built wheels by our very own master mechanic, Woody, DT240s laced to HED Belgium plus disc rims in either tubulars or clinchers. All of this together makes a full on world class race machine, built right here in The Vanilla Workshop, USA.

Pre-order has ended and we're busy fabricating!!

*Delivery may be influenced by component availability. Substitutions may be available and/or necessary

Questions about our Team Issue Cyclocross bikes? Drop us an email at info@speedvagen.com

2017 Team Issue Kit

Pre-Order for delivery in September. Pre-order ends AUG 14th

The 2017 Speedvagen team kit is an evolution... as all things Speedvagen are. Clean, crisp, balanced, with a touch of texture and fun, this is the design our team will be racing in for the 2017 cross season. Naturally, we like offering something special to the Speedvagen family of owners, as well as to friends of the brand... and this new team kit seemed like just the thing. In addition to looking better than any of your riding buddies, every kit purchase helps support the team. We hope you can join us this season, in person and in spirit, as we spread the gospel of riding hard, holding ourselves to a high standard, and being good to our fellow racers—all while looking for a few chances to poke some fun at ourselves! 

We turned to our friends at Castelli for the pieces themselves. Long time supporters of our SV race team—not to mention cross-town neighbors—Castelli is committed to making superior race kits. Their blend of decades-old history and modern material development echoes our own desire to bring craft principles together with the best possible ingredients.