Cane Creek Announces Their Next Limited Edition eeBrake: The Matador

  Asheville, NC – Cane Creek is proud to announce a new limited edition of their critically-acclaimed eeBrakes – The Matador. Cane Creek’s The Matador eeBrake flaunts red and pewter with some small...

Cane Creek Cycling Components Introduces Steering Stabilizing Hellbender 70 Visco Headset

  Asheville, NC – Cane Creek is proud to announce the introduction of their NEW Hellbender 70 Visco headset.  Building upon Cane Creek’s ongoing legacy of bicycle headset innovation, the introduct...

Cane Creek Announces Limited Edition Helm Chameleon

  Asheville, NC – Cane Creek is excited to announce a new Limited Edition Chameleon Helm, available in extremely limited quantities. The Limited Edition Chameleon Helm MKII is available in our 2...

Women of Cane Creek

  January 2023 Though the Women of Cane Creek account for only 28% of our workforce, our impact is felt throughout the company. From Production to Marketing, Sales and Advocacy, w...

December MVP

January 2023 The MVP This month is someone whose job it so deal with and fix problems 100% of the time and keeps it calm and level. Jay John came into a new position for CC with pretty vague expe...

Behind the Collector's Edition eeBrakes

If you’ve followed Cane Creek over the past 6 years you are likely familiar with our limited edition eeBrakes, Cane Creek has released two limited edition eeBrakes per year since 2017. These brakes...

Neko Mulally | FRAMEWORKS – Partnership

Cane Creek Cycling Components is proud to announce our Partnership with Neko Mulally and FRAMEWORKS  Our team here at Cane Creek Cycling Components worked with Neko to design and manufacture offset...

Cane Creek Stewardship

Cane Creek Cycling Components is more than just a company bringing the cycling world some of the industries most innovative products – We are, first and foremost, people who love bikes and we trul...

MTB Suspension Service Procedures

November 15th, 2022 PRESS RELEASE: Cane Creek Cycling ComponentsCane Creek Cycling Components announces their mountain bike suspension service procedures are available to the public. For the ...

Truth and Dignity

November 11th, 2022 Back in October, some Cane Creek employees attended the 2nd annual Outdoors For All Summit down in Old Fort, NC where they had the privilege and opportunity to meet Erick Cedeño...

October MVP Award

  November 2022 Congratulations Denice Jaramillo on becoming Cane Creek’s MVP for the month of October! Denice only started at Cane Creek Cycling Components back in 2021, yet has worked dilig...

REFLECTION

October 2022 Oliviah Franke (she/her) is a chicana, queer cylist living on the unceded lands of the Dena’ina peoples, also known as Anchorage Alaska. This past year she was a part of the 2022 Ride ...

September MVP Award

October 2022 Congratulations Dale Baker on becoming Cane Creek’s MVP for the month of September! Dale is Cane Creek’s Shipping Scheduler, responsible for prioritize our orders and their allocations...

August MVP Award

September 2022 Congratulations Melissa Russello on becoming Cane Creek’s MVP for the month of August! Melissa is Cane Creek’s Information Technologies Manager and has taken on the implementation of...

Our apologies for the delay

August 30, 2022 We apologize for any delays in response or shipment as we upgrade to an entirely new computer system that runs our company. Cane Creek is committed to our riders, their satisfaction...

Being Frank: What’s The Rider Benefit?

  Brent Graves - CEO & President August 2022 What’s best for the rider? This is a very simple question that a product manager should always be striving to answer. However, tha...

Eco-Friendly Packaging

June 14, 2022 I recently bought a new watch online. This particular watch manufacturer is known for investing heavily in their marketing, so it was no surprise that the packaging the watch came in ...

How to Buy a Schwinn High Plains Mountain Bike

(or how I avoided a stint in adult entertainment). TR Maloney - Distributor Sales Manager I wasn't one for exercise back in 1988. I was more for double cheeseburgers, Budweiser beer and Marlboro L...

Everything You Need To Know About Coil Springs

When we first introduced our Double Barrel Coil shock - The DB Coil - back in 2005, you typically only saw coil shocks on bigger travel downhill bikes.

Cane Creek Trail Days

As a company founded in the mountains of western North Carolina, Cane Creek Cycling Components has deep roots in the community and culture of the Appalachian Mountains. The Pisgah National Forest (...

Being Frank: The History Of Cane Creek Cycling Components

May 2022 Who brought to market the threadless headset that revolutionized bike design in 1992 and continues to this day? What company once produced the original Rock Shox RS1, the first widely avai...

Putting In The Time

When I was 19 years old, if you told me that I would be designing fuel filtration systems after graduating I would not have been thrilled to continue my education in Mechanical Engineering. Howeve...

Being Frank: Product Management Axioms

I’ve talked around Product Management (PM) several times in the past. Last November I shared some products that we did not bring to market and why. In December 2019 I explained why we decided to ge...

Being Frank: How To Get The Best Job In The World

For many years I have been asked how to get a job in the bike industry, which I consider to be the best job in the world. True, it might not be the best for everyone, but if one is enamored with cy...

What Is ISO Testing?

ISO stands for the International Organization for Standardization - it’s a group of committees that put together standards (or tests) for a wide range of activities like making products, offering a...

The Personal Challenges

I love bikes, obviously a big reason why I chose to work at Cane Creek. Just about every type of riding excites me, I’ve even dabbled in a bit of racing and even won a few. I’ve always found the id...

Being Frank: What Could Have Been

Brent Graves - CEO & President For obvious reasons you usually only hear about the products that we have to sell. However, there are products that never make it to the market. While we cannot ...

I Ride to Live; I Ride to Thrive

Rob Nelson - Rider Engagement Representative It sounds odd to say that a sport or hobby can save your life but that’s what I believe riding bikes has done for me. There have been more days than I ...

Staying Focused in Work and Life

Joseph Grimes - Senior Purchasing Manager I’ve worked at a deli, an outfitter shop, and three bike shops before starting at Cane Creek Cycling Components nearly 5 years ago.  In my retail experien...

Being Frank: Where Are The Bikes?

Brent Graves- President and CEO From first-time buyers to cycling enthusiasts the last year-and-a-half has been frustrating for those looking to buy a new bike or parts. But you may not really know...

From Building Trails to Brand Manager: How I Got Here

Sam Anderson - Brand Manager Although it has been almost 7 years since I started working at Cane Creek, my connection with this company began 5 years before my first day hitting the payroll in 201...

Being Frank: Our 7 Tenets

Over thirty years I have worked for a number of companies in the bike industry, and while none were perfect, all had good intentions to deliver products riders would appreciate. It is common, consu...

Self-Care and a New Career

Jenna Toney - Rider Engagement Manager Though it feels like a chapter I closed a long time ago, I left my last job just under a year ago. I worked with survivors of sexual assault and child sexual...

Being Frank: All Cranked Up

Time seems to uncover the truth. As days roll into years, more facts surface to eventually overcome uninformed opinions, misinformation, and stupidity. Sometimes it takes many years, but time has l...

Hindsight. Moving During a Pandemic

Matt Schurtz- Rider Engagement Representative You could hear a pin drop it was so quiet. Everyone in the conference room sat shocked at the news of Trust Performance closing. Some of us only with ...

Being Frank: Not Only for Shaggy-Haired Enduro Riders

Our name is Cane Creek Cycling Components, though we are almost always referred to as just “Cane Creek”. However, our full name is important in that “cycling” refers to not just one or two cycling ...

Building a New Website During The Great Bicycle Shortage of 2020 & 2021

Colin Reis- Manager of Digital Engagement In January of this year Cane Creek launched a new website - a project that eight months prior was shut down due to the pandemic.  The first two weeks of A...

Being Frank: eeBarkeep

Sometimes (most times?) in life things don’t work out as we think they should. This goes for products as well. While we certainly don’t have a crystal ball at Cane Creek, our historical sales data,...

Life’s Short- Why be an Accountant?

James Ivey- Controller Ask any classroom full of elementary school kids what they want to be when they grow up.  What kind of answers do you get?  Firefighter, police officer, veterinarian, doctor,...

Cane Creek Raffles Unique Fork to Benefit IMBA

Cane Creek Cycling Components is proud to announce the “HELMyeah IMBA Sweepstakes”! Cane Creek has built a very special HELM MKII front fork in a mustard color to be raffled off with all of the pro...

Being Frank: Misnomers and Misunderstandings

Brent Graves-CEO & President Cycling, particularly road racing and increasingly mountain biking, is full of misnomers and misunderstandings. Some are humorous but others can cause headaches. M...

Cane Creek Announces eeWings DIY

Cane Creek Cycling Components is proud to announce the latest addition to our lineup of acclaimed eeWings Titanium cranks - the eeWings DIY. The eeWings DIY arrives in 9 individual unwelded pieces...

Athens Twilight

Nate Field - Service Center Manager Talk to anyone in the cycling industry and they have plenty of stories about racing - why they race, their best win or worst defeat. Oftentimes the stories relat...

Being Frank: Sold Out

Brent Graves - President & CEO The strong demand for road bikes during the first decade of this century started tapering around 2012, and that led to a weakening of bicycle sales that culminate...

Being Frank: Smoother is Better

Brent Graves - President & CEO At the outset I will admit that the following may sound a bit like a sales pitch, and that would be the antithesis to the intent of these blogs. However, I’d argu...

My First Bike

TR Maloney-Sr. OEM Sales Manager  My bike always lived outside. We didn’t have a garage, we had a carport. That meant chaining it up every night to the other bikes that belonged to my sisters and ...

Being Frank: The Center of the Bicycle Industry

Brent Graves - President & CEO An island in the Pacific that is about half the size of South Carolina and home to twenty-four million people is the center of the bicycle industry. While central...

Introducing the Hellbender 110 Bottom Bracket

We're taking our Hellbender line of bottom brackets to the next level with the all-new Hellbender 110 The Hellbender 110 BB provides an incredible mix of performance and longevity through the inclu...

Being Frank: To Hellbender With Bottom Brackets

We like to say that we do the products that we want to do, the way that we want to do them. But that is not the full story because we also strive to ensure that each of our products has a reason to...

Coil Vs Air Shock

Sam Anderson - Brand Manager Coil shocks have made a resurgence on modern trail bikes within the last few years, and with that comes a question we often hear: should I get a coil shock or an air sh...