Day two of Frostbike 2015 has been an informational day filled with seminars, tours, and valuable conversations. The day began with a ‘Bikepacking Essentials’ seminar put on by Benton Hunt, A Salsa Brand Sales Manager. We also had a chance to tour through the QWheelhouse and to see the wheel building process. The day finished off with a seminar from Jay Petervary – Real People, Real Adventures.
Below is a recap and photo journal from day two at FrostBike.
Bikepacking Essentials:
The Bikepacking Essentials seminar was an excellent informational introduction to bikepacking for people looking to get started. Benton gave a presentation of three different Bikepacking set ups showing how one can choose to pack for comfort, or for an ultralight and minimalist experience. He also spoke towards retailers to suggest ways of putting bikepacking gear on display in order to illustrate consumers what bikepacking is all about.
Hunt chatting about his setups and his motivation for getting out on even a short 6 mile ride.Lots of interest lead to questions and talk of resources.Qwheelhouse Tour:
QBP gave Frostbike attendees an opportunity to tour their wheelhouse to show retailers, media and others how their process for wheel building works. We were introduced to their lacing process, truing process, as well as some of their team. Here they are building typically 600 wheels per day in house.
Quality Control at work.Wheel building shop, most of what we saw was designed or created out of need, by employees.No oiled nipples EVER!Hubs are ready to be laced up to some rims.A house built tension stress mechanism that produces 300 PSI.A beloved tool, the DT Swiss tension meter.Reference for threading popular hubs.Organic powdered lubricant makes the lacing process more efficient.They hand build all of there fat wheel from start to finish. Aaron (right) is on of the supervisors, with a fantastic sense of humor.Rolling Darryls awaiting proper true and tension.Lots of spokes, only steps away from the threading station.QBP PackagingEach truing station is unique and personalized.PackagingReal Adventures, Real People : Jay Petervary
Jay Petervary was introduced by Salsa Cycles Mike Riemer for their Real Adventures, Real People seminar. Jay spoke about his past and what got him into bikepacking and ultra endurance racing, as well as his experiences. He spoke in detail about the two races who have the most significance to him – the Tour Divide and the Iditirod Trail Invitational. Sharing stories and a slideshow of both events, Jay provided a first hand experience to what it means to participate in these events.
Mike “kid” Riemer introduces JayP.There were lots of tips and tricks offered out from Jay.We had to go back and check out the eccentric BB. More to come this week on the Salsa Cycles Powderkeg.Panaracer added to their Fat “B” Nimble series with a 29+ and 27.5+ sizes.QBP employeesQBP Cafetaria. Everyone waiting for the big raffle.QBP headquarters, and host of Frostbike 2015. A great event with great people, until next year.
