Journal

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 ...