Welcome to 2012! The future has become the present. Heavy.

We had a great year. We expanded our shop and staff, led dozens of group rides, participated in a couple bicycle marriage proposals, laminated thousands of spoke cards, made a couple movies, built loads of beautiful bikes and so much more.

We've put together a gallery of great moments to relive with you. Thanks for all your support in 2011, best wishes for 2012.

This winning photo from our Customer subMission contest received over 650 votes. The winner cashed in his $250 gift card for mustaches. Yup, $250 worth of bicycle mustaches. Photo by Eetu Pajala.

We inagurated a weekly email of helpful tips and cool stuff, like secret tricks to lock up your bike. You can sign up here if you like.

Dalan, along with two friends from the Disposable Film Festival, rode nearly 100 miles from San Francisco to Davis, CA, for their screening event. All three made the trek on Mission Bicycles.

Thanks to our friends and fans we were able to donate over $1,300 to Japanese earthquake and tsunami relief efforts. Photo by housemusic.  

We learned how to defy gravity in 2011. This shot came from a post we wrote, sharing our Top 10 Bike Photo Tricks.

We contributed bicycles to two successful marriage proposals. Tecate cans included free of charge. Check out a video of the second proposal here. 

Sunday Streets, a car free celebration of community, took place twice outside our shop. We invited some musicians down to join the party.

We discovered this great new color called Goldenrod and Cody was among the first to snag it.  

We got a little carried away with Halloween this year. Jefferson just had to have a glowing skeleton.

In December we filmed a new video for release Spring 2012. Keep an eye out, it's going to be big.

Got some great bike shots from 2011? We'd love to see them. Send pictures to info@missionbicycle.com.