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...

Being Frank: Bama and Bond in the Alps

Brent Graves - President & CEO Last month I mentioned some epic rides, and regardless of the type of riding you do, I bet you have had some epic rides as well. It seems most of us use similar e...

Introducing the DB Heritage Shock

In 2005, Cane Creek Cycling Components revolutionized the mountain bike suspension landscape with the introduction of the original Double Barrel (DB) shock. With twin-tube technology and four-way a...

Rider Engagement: Riders Helping Riders

Luke Bukoski, Director of Rider Engagement Sometime in mid-June of this year, I got a call from my boss – Cane Creek CEO Brent Graves. Brent wanted to run an idea by me and, like a lot of us, I wa...

Small Batch 2020 – IPA

Western North Carolina is known for many things - flowing singletrack followed by rugged descents, miles of beautiful and serene country roads, seemingly endless gravel tracks… and really good beer...

Being Frank: Mechanical Empathy

Brent Graves - President and CEO Nearly two decades ago I met a guy that introduced me to a concept that I had thought about but never distilled into a conscious methodology and attitude. The conce...

The Pisgah Project 2020

For the fourth consecutive year, Cane Creek has brought together a group of cycling industry companies to build a very special bike with a noble purpose - a bike that will directly fund the well-be...

Save The Hellbenders

We are proud to announce that $10 from each Cane Creek Hellbender 70 Bottom Bracket or Headset purchased through www.canecreek.com between October 15th and 31st will be donated to support the conse...

Being Frank: Our DNA

Successful organizations, whether they be company, sports team, or military unit, have a DNA that permeates every aspect of their attitude and behavior. That DNA is critical for several reasons. Fi...

Being Frank - Where is it Made?

The question of where a product is made is more important to some than others and seems to be less important to many than it was in the past. Certainly the world feels smaller these days with the a...

Making DB Kitsuma

During the development of a cycling product at Cane Creek, ride testing plays a critical role in ensuring that the product meets and/or exceeds our expectations of performance and durability. As Pr...

Being Frank: Rough Silk

We were excited about the eeSilk seat post when we introduced it. We believed it provided a compliance benefit that rivaled more complicated bicycle frame designs. This meant someone could expand t...

Introducing DB Kitsuma

Pro- Tune At Your Fingertips We are proud to announce the DB Kitsuma, a highly adjustable rear shock built for maximum performance in a design that is incredibly intuitive and easy to use. Grounded...

Being Frank - My Cane Creek Favorites

Favorites, everyone has them. Craft beer, James Bond actor, MotoGP racer, burger joint, and even offspring (but parents can’t admit that) -- everyone has favorites. While all of the Cane Creek prod...

Being Frank: Fading Stain

Years ago as a young product manager I learned that there are three big mistakes that can limit, hurt, or kill a new product: price, spec, and quality. A pricing mistake can be addressed quickly, a...

Introducing HELM MKII

Introducing HELM MKII  Cane Creek Cycling Components is proud to announce the release of the HELM MKII suspension fork. The HELM MKII is the first major revision of Cane Creek’s HELM fork lineup an...

Being Frank: COVID-19 Impact on Cane Creek

COVID-19 has likely impacted everyone to some degree, and while it has impacted Cane Creek, things could be a lot worse. I’ll try and spare you the CEO-speak that is intended to project how morally...

Being Frank - Unconditional Joy and Wonder

Like most everyone, I am consumed by the uncertainty and anxiety being caused by the coronavirus pandemic. So I have decided to force myself for a few minutes to focus on something that brings me u...

Being Frank - What's in a name?

Marketing and politics are considered dirty disciplines by many, but they can be used for positive results – well sometimes. However, what follows is my rant on how Marketing and its managers can b...

Hellbender Neo BB

The Hellbender Neo Bottom Bracket At Cane Creek, we are all about making advancements in technologies that make cycling better. Demand for Cane Creek to make a bottom bracket has long been on our r...

Introducing The All-New Thudbuster

Introducing The All-New Thudbuster For over 20 years, Thudbuster has been the bicycle industry standard in suspension seatposts by providing unequaled comfort and reliability to riders around the ...

Being Frank: More Is Not Always Better

I will admit that I am predisposed to want more of a good thing. If one piece of homemade chocolate pie is good, three pieces should be better. If a four-hour road ride in the mountains is good, th...

The Cane Creek Cup Is Back!

Cane Creek Cycling Components is proud to announce the return of the Cane Creek Cup Mountain Bike Race Series! For 2020, Cane Creek will return as title sponsor for the legendary cross country seri...

Being Frank - My Favorites

There have been a lot of great bicycle parts over the last 30-40 years, and I have had the good fortune to ride many of them. Even among the great parts, some stood out even more for me. Sometimes ...

The Big Show - Thoughts From Eurobike 2019

Sarah Montplaisir - Director of Engineering I’ve been an engineer for 18 years, I’ve been riding mountain bikes for 13 years, but I’ve only been an engineer in the bike industry for 8 months.  Over...

Being Frank - Developing Product

I am not aware of set product development process for the bicycle industry, though the companies I’ve worked for and with do follow the same basic concept. Some companies have a more regimented and...

Being Frank - Utopia is Lazy

I find it fascinating that the human race seems to equate utopia with sitting on our ass. The deeply rooted belief is that the less we have to do physically, the better off we are. Thus in utopia w...

Being Frank - Those Responsible for Me Being Here

One never really knows the actual beginning, but a yellow Huffy with a banana seat in 1970 seems to be about right. Before that anything with wheels had my attention, but after that bicycles were c...

eeSilk at Dirty Kanza 200

Living up to its name and not disappointing, Dirty Kanza was one of the hardest, single day events I've ever done. Part I: Preparing the bike At 4:00am Saturday morning, things began to get real a...

eeWings + Stages: Training with a Power Meter

Cane Creek's Senior OEM Sales Manager, TR Maloney, is no stranger to endurance races... "I am a cyclist and ultra-runner. In the past, I was an Ironman triathlete and even did some track racing. I ...

HELM Works Series 130: Climb Switch Technology

First things first, we need to get one thing straight: Cane Creek's proprietary Climb Switch Technology is not a lock-out. In fact, we're strongly against a full lock-out, and we'll explain why bel...

Partner Highlight: Extra UK Ltd.

Did you know? Cane Creek has four different sales channels: retail dealers, OEMs, distributors, and eCommerce. Our retail dealers and eCommerce channels are only open within North America, which me...

The Pros Trust Hellbender 70

For more than two decades, Cane Creek has set the standard for bicycle headsets. By introducing the world to threadless technology, Cane Creek helped redefine modern bicycles; making possible the i...

Being Frank - Invisible Hypocrisy

Hypocrisy can hide in plain sight, and it can indirectly cost us even if we don’t know that it is doing so. We all have known people to say one thing and then do another. The reality is that no one...

HELM YEAH

So you know you want a HELM fork... why wouldn't you? Get the low-down between the three different models so you can make sure the fork you choose will be best for your riding style! And if you don...

Being Frank - What We Do Here

Whether it is riders stopping by after railing trails in the Pisgah National Forest or cruising the Blue Ridge Parkway, visiting vendors, meetings with bank executives, or media coming in for an in...

WOMEN CRUSH CANE CREEK

Welcome to the most exciting week of 2019 (sorry, Sea Otter)! The Cane Creek Cycling Tour is headed to a Camber Exchange on May 2nd and ROAM Fest Brevard - a women's mountain bike festival in the e...

Problem Solvers: Headsets That Make a Difference

PROBLEM: You've got a bad case of the "speed wobbles." SOLUTION: Bring harmony back to your rides with VISCOSET®   ViscoSet (patent-pending) offers viscous damping to make bicycles safer by inhibi...

Partner Highlight: Cotic

Fresh off the launch of the new Cotic Flare, we caught up with Cy, Richard, and Hannah from Cotic Bikes to discuss the brand's "Sweet 16" years in operation, their history with Cane Creek...

Cane Creek's Perfect Pairs

It's probably slipped your mind, but today is, in fact, National Siblings Day in the United States. We're sure you're just thrilled. Siblings can be your best friends, worst enemies, or somewhere i...

Cane Creek Announces Three New Products Debuting at Sea Otter

We are proud to announce the addition of three new products to the Cane Creek lineup: The HELM Works Series 130 suspension fork, the eeBrakes El Platino limited edition brakes and the Road Cache mi...

Rider Highlight: Tandem Women on Wheels

Two women, two wheels, one World Record The story of Catherine Dixon's and Rachel Marsden's attempt to be the fastest women to circumnavigate the globe on a tandem bicycle. Cat & Raz are the Ta...

T H U D L I F E

T H U D L I F E ... Did you know: Cane Creek's Thudbuster is one of our longest running and largest selling items in our global market. Surprised? Don't be. Thudbuster is the most effective and ver...

Bike Check: HELM WS130

HELM Works Series 130 is here, and it's time to party. HELM WS130 is a 29" air fork optimized for cross-country mountain biking. The fork has a maximum of 130mm of travel, although decreasing it's ...

Being Frank - Sweet and Not Sweet Wings

In the mid-nineties I got wind of a super cool product. At the time cranks were either forged (good) or cast aluminum (usually acceptable) from Japanese suppliers Shimano or Sugino. Then the CNC mi...

HELM 29: Why 44mm Offset?

Chatter about reduced offset forks is nothing new. PinkBike, UK's Mountain Bike Rider, Bike Radar, and others have been talking about it for years. So why is offset a hot topic right now?   WHAT IS...