Get A Grip Cycles Client: Brent Peebles
One day, Brent Peebles decided to go from working "billions" of hours for IBM to working and living for...himself and his family. This is a story of the proverbial escape from corporate America. Though still a burgeoning cyclist, he's like an Energizer bunny with his heart and mind in the game--just the kind of client we here at Get A Grip →
Get A Grip Cycles Client: John Montgomery
Guess it's no surprise we love to see bicycles go out the door but it's more than that. It's seeing the RIGHT bike go out the door with the RIGHT cyclist. And hopefully that's how John Montgomery's recent Get A Grip Cycles experience panned out; Montgomery picked up a Scott CR1, a bike that walks the line between performance and comfort →
Firefly Bicycles: We Have Them! You Need One
Get A Grip Cycles is very proud, pleased, and freakin' pumped, to announce that we're on a short list of authorized dealers that'll be carring the newly formed Firefly Bicycles. The crew of builders here has a handmade bicycle lineage/resume that's near sacred and now they're doing things their own way in their new facility in Boston...where they started things by →
Chicago Tri Club’s Got Your Back
Nothing comes easy. Especially triathlons. The Chicago Tri Club (CTC) makes a tough, endurance-demanding sport a bit easier, though. The CTC's mission is twofold: (1) grow the athletic abilities of its membership, and (2) develop relationships through athletic endeavors and "meaningful social contact," bringing diehard Ironman competitors and complete novices together at social events, clinics and workouts. Training for a triathlon can be →
Get A Grip Customer: Mike Cacciabondo
Get A Grip Cycles recently built a bike so unique, so--Chicago, for a guy so, well, Chicago, that we wanted to share it with you. Meet Mike Cacciabondo. He commutes, from Jefferson Park to downtown, when needed; often continuing on to Soldier Field or the South Shore Cultural Center, a leg-stretching 30-mile ride. These days, he does so on this bike: →