2010 in review

Interesting email I received regarding the activity on our little blog…

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.

Crunchy numbers

About 3 million people visit the Taj Mahal every year. This blog was viewed about 26,000 times in 2010. If it were the Taj Mahal, it would take about 3 days for that many people to see it.

In 2010, there was 1 new post, growing the total archive of this blog to 10 posts.

The busiest day of the year was April 21st with 190 views. The most popular post that day was What really happened to GRIFFEN Bicycles…?.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were griffenbike.com, austinontwowheels.org, en.wordpress.com, ifreestores.com, and sheldonbrown.com.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for griffen bikes, griffin bikes, griffen bicycles, griffen bike, and griffen.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

1

What really happened to GRIFFEN Bicycles…? July 2009
8 comments

2

Tri/TT Frames – MMC July 2009
97 comments

3

1) Choose Items July 2009
20 comments

4

Tri/TT Frames – AL July 2009
29 comments

5

Road Frames – STEEL July 2009
24 comments

Track Frames SOLD OUT… Only 11 MMC Tri/TT Frames Remain…

After selling the last of the MMC track & road frames, that leaves us with only 11 MMC TT/Tri frames remaining… along with 9 STEEL road frames.

Have you checked to see if one will work for you?

Robin Williams flying the GRIFFEN flag

Back in the day…

I never had the opportunity to meet him, but I understand that Robin Williams accumulated a nice collections of GRIFFENS.  Word is that he really liked an “Italian Flag” paint job, then added more GRIFFENs “flagged” with other countries.

This is the only pic I’ve seen – but it did run in People Magazine.

I was also told by the owner of San Francisco’s Citizen Chain bike shop that Robin actually has a custom of literally flying a flag over his house whenever he goes out for a ride.  Pretty cool!

Can you tell that’s a Griffen?

An oldie, but a goodie…  I wonder have many Tri bike brands have actually made the cover of Inside Triathlon or Triathlete magazines…?

Take a look through the recently updated pages at right for the various frame styles to see if you find anything of interest… 

Road frames are pretty sparse with only 3 MMC frames left, but we do have about a dozen STEEL road frames. 

TT/Tri frames are thinnning out too, but we still have some MMC and AL in the various sizes listed. 

And for those Track cyclists out there – we still have 2 of those on the list.

Only 3 MMC Road Frames Left…

Griffen fans have continued to scoop up these last remaining frames at a steady clip… we’re now down to our last 3 MMC Road frames.  Is one of them the right size for someone you know?

Components posted w/pics…

 

Finally got around to uploading most of the component pics.  A few particularly attentive people noticed the early postings – and started ordering before I was even finished!  Thanks!!

FYI – I’ll be travelling most of next week, so it will probably take me longer than normal to respond – but I will get to you when I can.  More additions are already in the queue for when I get back in town.

STEEL Frame pics added…

 

Four painted STEEL frame pics posted – all but the primered ones.  I’d forgotten just how beautiful these things are!!

Aluminum Tri Frame pics posted… Track Frame pics too!

Check out the page for Aluminum Tri frames to see multiple views of the unpainted frames.  These are still available in all sizes.  I also posted a handful of painted aluminum frames – several with a cool tribal motif.

There are only 2 track frames, but I’ve posted pics of both on that page.

STEEL frames are next!!

Posting Lots of Bike Frame pics…

 

As requested, I’ve started adding pics of the remaining bike frames right on the pages.  It’s taking me a while, so please bear with me.  If you don’t see a pic for the frame you like, just let me know and I’ll try to get to it sooner.  The MMC Tri Frames are done – until I can take the other photos.

Once I get caught up on these, I’ll move on to the next category of items – probably “Components”…

Framesets Added to Listings…

 

I’ve just finished adding some specific pages for each of the various types of framesets that are still available.  You’ll find our current inventory of GRIFFEN MMC Triathlon, Track, and Road frames.   You’ll also find a listing of GRIFFEN STEEL Road frames and Aluminim Tri frames.  Take a look and see if you can find something that will work for you. 

Please feel free to pass this along to any friends who you think might have some interest.  I also encourage you to sign up to receive notification of updates as we will be adding quite a few more things here over the next few weeks.