The littlest Contender Club member is out terrorizing the neighborhoods. Have you seen him?
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Make your bike work for you
There’s a lot of different types and styles of bikes out there but this one is all about comfort and luxury. I’m talking about this interesting piece of engineering called the Camioncyclette transportation bike. It’s the Volkswagen van of bikes but way more creepy. If you’re like me sometimes you want to carry an entire pallet of tracker tires with you on the way to your yoga class and before I could get at most one on my shoulder and that’s it. But oh no, not any more. Or say your a busy dad who doesn’t want to drive the minivan because… well let’s be honest it’s just not that cool but you still want to somehow drive your son’s entire little league team to the game. And while you’re on the way to the game you want the option to pick up a few other dads kids too, now it’s possible. Lastly, what if you want to impress that special someone with a night out on the town, but you don’t want to pay the $3.50 for that horse carriage. Pick her up in the Camioncyclette. Nothing says I care like sitting in a wire basket while you cruise through the streets at a mind splitting 7 miles an hour. And if she gives you any attitude about the idea just say “you’re not uptight are you?” You’ll be a regular Burt Reynolds with gems like that.
You... me... Friday night... and this thing. See you at 8.
The reason Megan's law was invented
Mtb and Road bike throwbacks
If you ride bikes chances are you’ve owned more than one over the years. I know I have. And every single time I got a new I’ve said to myself “this is the best bike ever. Technology will never be better than this”. I also said that about VHS players to give you some perspective. Style, shapes, and technology have changed quite a bit to say the least since my mid 90′s initial foray into cycling. Let’s take a little look down memory trail and lay some eyes on some of my favorites over the years.
This was always one of my favorites. The original Orbea Orca, in orange, with Mavic Carbones. It's a clean look. Iban Mayo made this thing fly, it also helped that he was doped up to his eye balls.
This bike turned some heads on the trail. Luckily this exact design didn't catch on, while we're on the subject I'm glad primal wear didn't either.
Dogma was slingling Magnesium before carbon. This bike had so much Italian style even Italians were like "that's-a too much eh"
The slingshot bike was a unique idea with it's missing downtube. Billy Idol always thought so.
-Ride this bike down a bumpy trail and you really will be dancing with yourself.
-I took this bike off a curb and I ended up with eyes without a face.
-It’s a nice day for a white splenectomy.
Enervit is back!
We were all into this stuff like crazy a few years ago. But it left us like a girl friend on the first day of summer (editorial). Oh happy day though because it’s back on the shelves. There were rumors for a while that the factory burned down, or that the mad scientist who invented it went off the grid, or that Al Gore deemed the product unsafe for human consumption. But now it’s here and just in time for spring and summer.
If you’re not sure what exactly I’m talking about, I’m talking about the one and only Enervit Enervitene cheer pack. It’s essentially like Gu or Hammer gel but way better. First off it’s a double dose, it’s in liquid form, and has a resealable top. I know pretty much the greatest thing since curly fries. Come get yours.
sweet sweet nectar from the gods
Teal’s Pinarello
Teal Buchi rolls deep. A regular Pinarello Dogma 2 isn’t enough for him. He’s gotta have custom. Check out his custom paint on his new Dogma.
This is the new Dogma Teal
The name's Teal and I like me some Dogma
This man means business
Spring is in the air
It’s finally coming around. A time when we can dress for a ride without putting on layers and layers. While it’s not quite here yet we got a little taste last Sunday. The Sunday group brought out all the usual faces including a great representation of the new Contender kits. Remember the Sunday group ride leaves the store at 10am so join in!
Go green!
Steady pace all the way out to Draper
Sheyn has a new kit and a new bike and Eric has some new wheels too.
Sweet kicks
If you look good you ride good. Sidi don’t mess around when it comes to style. You like eh? I don’t know about you but I see a size 43 in my future. By the way St. Patrick’s day in coming up. Enjoy these bad boys.
Ba-boom!
Sweet Stache
We’ve all seen super high end bikes on skinny racer types but have we ever seen a complete look like this? Orbea makes road bikes, we all know that, but not everyone knows that Orbea makes the awesome urban bike. It’s called the Diem and it means business. I know this customer is loving his.
Perhaps we've seen this guy before on Thursday night on NBC
You knew this was coming
We’ve all seen the first one now it’s time for the sequels to commence. These videos went viral to the max. Watch this one and see if you haven’t heard about 90% of these somewhere on the road or in some second hand conversation. So grad your favorite mesh running hat and enjoy.
Remember these throwbacks
Cycling jerseys have come a long way. Colors and styles range from the simple to the extremely over the top. Take a look at a few through the years and see if you can guess the general era they are from.
That's some serious Flock of Seagulls hair. Their rival team were the guys with the Miller Lite Vortex bottle jerseys.
Trucker hats were legal forms of head protection at this time. Rock Racing was the Adam Sandler movie of cycling teams, it was entertaining for about 15 minutes then you just felt gross for having watched it.
With this head band I'm reminded of a little tune called "lets get physical"
Zebra versus Lion in a sprint... lion's gonna win
Stevie Wonder wouldn't like this jersey. With ideas like this we're not that far off from a mesh cycling jersey. It's the big foot print that really brings this one together.
Who could forget this one. This was the Mona Lisa of cylcing jerseys. It was the Bently, the Monte Cristo, the Air Jordans with the velcro strap your mom refused to buy you, the downtown of the uptown, the white walls, the yin and the yang, the Frankenstien to the Wolfman, the Pontiac fire bird in a land of Nissan Sentras, the watching Goonies on TBS on a Sunday at 11pm with nothing to do the next day. Ok I went a little bit of a rant there but you get the idea
