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It is Time to Get Out & Ride!

Temperatures are going up, tax season is over, and the sun seems to be shining a bit more frequently. It is time to get off the trainer, put on the booties, and head outside on your bike!

After a lackluster winter, it can be easy to let your equipment go for another year and to continue putting up with comfort and performance issues that could likely be improved. If you put off making changes for another year, it will just be another year you won't get to enjoy riding more...

This is a fantastic year to be looking at new riding gear with prices actually going down on many bikes since '15 and the continued development and release of great new products like SRAM eTap, the lightweight Felt Decree Enduro bike, MIPS equipped helmets and the Garmin Varia bike safety radar system. In fact, brands like Felt and Trek even have some bikes unexpectedly on sale right now. Get in touch with us today and we can help you avoid such a tragedy before another season slips by...

Things You May Have Missed...

We didn't stop thinking about bikes in the off-season. In fact, the off-season is when we have the time to test and profile new products and we posted a good number of articles on our blog and Facebook throughout the winter. Some recent posts:

For Hill Climbers: Wolf Tooth Tanpan - A great little product that, among other things, allows a long cage mountain bike rear derailleur to work with 10 and 11 speed road shift levers. Can you say, "42 tooth rear cog on my road bike here I come?"

For Mountain Bikers: SRAM XX1 Eagle and SRAM XO1 Eagle 1x12 MTB Groups - Four words - 50 tooth rear cog. Does this spell the end of the front derailleur on mountain bikes?

For Triathetes and Time Trialists: "5 MPH Faster Without Working Any Harder" - Thinking about getting a tri bike or want to figure out how to make your current tri bike faster? This presentation shows where the time gains from a road bike can be found so you can allocate accordingly.

For Adventure Bike Riders: Reynolds ATR Disc Wheels - Do you have an adventure bike (aka - "gravel grinder" or "multistrada") that you want to improve the feel and ride? The Reynolds ATR Disc wheels offer a truly engineered and name brand carbon rim at a very fair price. Jim provides an overview...

Be sure to check out our blog regularly as we are always adding posts. These can also be found on Facebook and our other social media portals.