Yes and yes.

Before everyone freaks out, calls me a "sellout" and a "traitor" or starts burning me in effigy in town squares across the country, it was a decision that certainly took a lot of deliberation.

Without writing a 5000-word essay here on BikeForums, I will say that after some lengthy conversations with reps from Aventon I can easily see how they are doing very good things for the track/fixed gear cycling community - much more, in fact, than many other popular brands - and are working extremely hard to better themselves as a brand having respect for both the industry and their customers. We received some product today (which we posted a pic of on Instagram to mixed results) and I am very pleasantly surprised to see the overall quality of their frames has improved quite a bit and to say the frames are on par with Leader's recent offerings is accurate. They are also on board to be a pretty big sponsor of the SD Velodrome in 2015 and as a result, people here want their frames. Whether or not we put them up on the site is still up in the air.

You guys know my personality and the way my shop does things. We flat out refuse to do business with any company we don't respect or want to do business with. My thought process was pretty much "Go ahead, impress me" and kudos to them because they did.

For the record, Vincent Shim and Unknown Bikes can still go **** themselves.