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2011 Specialized – High Lights

cyclelogic — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:24:33 +0000

Busy couple of weeks as far as our cycle suppliers are concerned – most are launching there 2011 product these are some of the highlights from the Specialized range

MTB’s – forstly the whole world is going 29′er mad. Specialized have Epics and Stumpy hardtails in the big wheel format and word from the team riders is that going back to a 26″ wheel after riding a 29′r is like riding with flat tyres.

I’m sold – the guys in the workshop are still a bit sceptical but one things for sure we are going to be seeing a lot more of them in all manufacturers ranges this year.

The Camber is an all new bike that sort of replaces the FSR XC and cuts across the the Stumpy FSR domain – with prices ranging from £1199.99 for the Comp model to £2200 for the Pro demand is going to be high, hopefully supply will be good to match.

Travel is 120mm and the Pro gets the new 2 x 10 speed drive trains that are featuring through several models. 2×10 makes sense although personally I would be happier with 30/42 chainrings rather than the ’std’ 24/38’s that are being fitted. We’ll see!

Lot’s of the bikes are getting full on colour make overs this season – not a bad thing as everything got a bit ’samey’ for 2010. Winner in the Glamour stakes for 2011 has to be the Stumpy Pro Carbon with gold high lights and the Secteur’s in the Road Sportif range that has now lost is ‘Blue Rinse’ image.

Continuing with the rise of the 700c market the ever popular Tricross gets a new frame with internal cable routing along with some hefty price rises taking the Sport model to £999 (we still have good stocks of the older models), this and a more ‘cross’ specific stablemate with the launch of the Crux at £999 emphasises the importance of the all-rounder market .

Loads more changes in the range with over 20 new frames alone. – Wilier next then Giant – Fun Fun Fun.

VULCAN BOMBER – TARMAC SL3 – TIME TEAM PRO

cyclelogic — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:37:17 +0000

Not something that you see everyday flying over your local bike shop but spectacular none the less – the RAF’s last flying Vulcan bomber

Couple of very nice Custom’s that we built recently, first up a Specialized Tour winning Tarmac SL3 that is one of the few bikes that we have done that has pretty much split opinion down the middle, one things for sure you can’t ignore it in Flo Red Trim.

And heres a little beauty – some classic retro Chic – a Time Team Pro built to a customers exacting spec using the latest SRAM Apex group and weighing in at just under 17lbs

JEFFS DIARY UPDATE

cyclelogic — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 08:37:38 +0000

Summary of recent results

Exeter Wheelers 25 S4/25 08/08/10

Seemed like a good idea to enter the event a month ago. However a 0400hrs alarm call on race day had me questioning my sanity although this was still a lie in compared to some triathlon starts! Fantastic time to be on the road and was rewarded with a glorious sunrise and the way up to Devon. Onto the event itself I finished in 5th place in a time of 55:19 missed fourth place by one second and just over a minute behind the winner Simon Edney in a time of 54:02. Despite the early start it was good to race outside of the county against different riders on what proved to be a tough course.

Truro Cycling Club 25 S100/25 18/07/10

Cornish Cup event so a strong field for this event with Wendy Houvenaghel topping the bill. A dull and overcast day with a stiff headwind on the outward leg and sections of rain. I finished third in a time of 55:16, 4 seconds adrift of the second placed rider Julius Jennings, however Wendy stormed to first place in a time of 54:37. Really pleased with the time and hpefully can improve on this with the remaining events of the season. Photo attached.

Rest of August is pretty quite with a few 10’s towards the end of the month and two 25m events to do in September.

A Weekend in Wales

cyclelogic — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 09:35:29 +0000

24^th/25^th July

David Bartlett – A weekend in South Wales…

Having decided to make the trip to Wales for the Welsh Sprint Triathlon Championships I thought I would get my money’s worth and complete a double cherry weekend racing both Saturday and Sunday mornings.

7am Saturday morning I took my place on the start line of the Gower Triathlon, rated last years ‘Triathlon of the year’ to compete over a 750m beach swim, 24k challenging but scenic bike and a 5k multi terrain run. I immediately established myself at the front of the swim and cruised around the ‘short’ course exiting in 8.06, over 30 seconds ahead of Welsh veteran and former international Richard Jones. The bike course was demanding and the descents were dangerous due to the heavy rain, I was caught and overtaken by Julian Hatcher who recorded a minute quicker bike split but I was pleased with my 42 minute effort and got around the run course in 18 minutes to maintain by second position.

Final results:

Position Name Swim T1+Bike T2+Run Total

1 Julian Hatcher 9.19 42.46 17.05 1.09.08

2 David Bartlett 8.06 44.02 18.47 1.10.53

3 Richard Jones 8.49 43.58 19.04 1.11.49

CYCLE LOGIC – ONE STOP TOUR SHOP DIARY

cyclelogic — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 20:36:29 +0000

This is going to be interesting – we thought we would log the bikes and relevant kit on each of this year’s tour stage winners and see how many of them we sell.

Day 1

Prologue

Fabian Cancellara – Team Saxo Bank - SPECIALIZED SHIV

Well, we probably would have one in stock were it not for some bizarre political/legal holdup in the delivery. Check out that ‘giant’ headstock and stem. Look familiar?? Zipp 404 front and Disc – now those we have.

Day 2

Alessandro Petacchi – Lampre Farnese - WILIER CENTO UNO SUPER LEGGARA

Just sold a Cento Uno SL – if you had popped into the shop this week you would have seen it in pride of place – amazing piece of kit with the Wilier logo woven in 3d into the carbon top weave. Light, classy and understated.

Day 3

Sylvain Chavanel – Quck Step – Eddy Merckx

Ok, so we are struggling a bit here with this one, we don’t sell Merckx bikes. BUT Chavanel was using BBB glasses

(tenuous I know). These great value multi lens glasses have been stocked by us for several years now, plenty of styles and realistic prices from £25 – £50.

Lampre also use Fast Forward wheels, which we also have, and that gives us a good enough excuse to post these filthy pics of the Carbon Trispoke ‘3′ and Disc that are currently adorning our MASSIVE wheel selection in store.

1195 grams and under £1000 for the tub version – we have Campag and Shimano available.

Oooooh - that’s the money shot and just 750 grams – very keenly priced and you don’t get sworn at by the Tourettes afflicted distributor you buy them.

Day 4

Thor Hushovd – Cervelo Test Team – R3SL

This ones easy – on what is probably one of the hardest, bike mashing, ass ragging stages Cervelo Test Team sprint supremo Thor Hushovd blasts his R3SL to stage victory and tightens his grip on the Green Jersey competition.

Three models to choose from in this range, we have in stock the amazingly comfortable 2011 model RS at just £1799 for the frame, fork, headset and seat pin.

A built up R3 with Sram weighing in at 15 1/2lbs,

plus several customers sporting the amazing R3SL.

Day 5

Alessandro Petacchi – Lampre Farnese - WILIER CENTO UNO SUPER LEGGARA

This is Wilier’s second sprint win this tour, highlighting the the sheer class and quality of the CentoUno, especially significant when you factor in the light weight of the frame-set. Check out these pics of the Cento SL that we sold last week.

3D carbon weave, full Record 11 group, one piece integrated swing arm design rear end.

Day 6

Mark Cavendish – HTC Columbia – Scott Addict

This ones pretty barren for us – they use Shimano but apart from that the best we can do is Powerbar and SIS, Fisik saddles, usually have those, but that’s pretty much it.

Day 7

Mark Cavendish – HTC Columbia – Scott Addict

The blog’s going to make pretty dull reading if this carries on. Still In yellow though and things are going to heat up this weekend.

Day 8

Sylvain Chavanel – Quick Step – Eddy Merckx

It’s down to the shades again, we have got them and the last guy to buy a pair asked whey they were so cheap.

Day 9

Andy Schleck – Saxo Bank – Specialized S Works Tarmac SL3

Man these frames are light – we have got both the Saxo Bank frame and the Astana frame in stock at the moment as well as an incredibly bright red S Works SL3. Amazing value at £1999 for a frame thats just won a tour stage.

Day 10

Sandy Casar – FDJ – Lapierre

Not much going on for us with this one – suprisingly little info on the kit used on the FDJ team site as well – the sponsors must be chuffed!!

Day 11

Sergio Paulinho - Radio Shrek - Track

Sweet that the peloton offer up a charity win to Trek today and even allow Pina Rello a chance although it did take two to carry the Dogma to the line.

Day 12

Mark Cavendish – HTC Columbia – Scott Addict

Heads you win.

Day 13

Oliver Rodriguez – Katusha – Ridley

Another one that’s a bit thin for us although they do use Campagnolo, Vredstein and Cateye.

Day14

Alexandre Vinokourov – Astana – Specialized Tarmac SL3

Thats more like it – we have this frame in stock at the moment £1999

Zipp 404’s usually in stock although demand recently has been high £1500

Day15

Christophe Riblon – AG2R – Kuota

Another one that’s a bit light for us, some Time kit thrown in somewhere – SRAM groups

Windsor Elite Triathlon

cyclelogic — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:37:31 +0000

Windsor Elite Triathlon: – Many thanks to Neil for this account of Windsor Elite Tri.

We were glad with a reasonable hour for the start of our race, with the 1^st wave of the weekend off at 6.00am. Again, as usual with the elite waves, it took a while to get everyone in line, maybe some athletes are always looking for that edge on the swim start. Soon the swim strung out with one leader out the water with over 20secs lead with the rest to follow. Dave and I followed shortly after both coming out of the water in the top 10 with Dave one position in front of me.

Quick transitions and off onto the bike, Dave put his feet in his shoes straight away which cost him a few seconds, I hung on a mile or so, but we were both in the chase pack along with some strong athletes including the eventual winner, Steve Worthington, and Rich Allen.

A fast first 15 miles travelling 28-30mph on the flat soon saw us catch the front pack. The next few miles saw a few attacks but with little success, Dave and I took our spell at the front. I tried to give Dave a heads up with a few miles back to transition and then there was a slight break off the roundabout, I got myself towards the front and got on the back end, Dave just missed it taking a wide corner. The few seconds lead soon went as it was at the end of the bike leg, Dave and I were well positioned which is essential at Windsor due to having a small side pavement into transition.

I went out onto the run in about 5^th just ahead of Rich Stannard and Marc Jenkins with Dave just behind. The run saw some fast pace stuff, the eventual winner being a slight shock. Dave and I finished well within the top half of 50 athletes. I finished in 1.56 in 15^th and Dave 22^nd in 2.00hrs.

A very strong field this year as on previous years I would of broke into the top 10 and top 15 for Dave. A great result for us both and valuable experience, an amazing debut at elite level for Dave.

Jeff’s Diary – the season so far

cyclelogic — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 07:06:51 +0000

Penzance Crit 08/05/10 – first race of the year after waiting an age to get BCF licence! although it did help in doing some much needed training. A decent field with 35 riders dry conditions although very cold and windy with a strong headwind along the back straight. This played a major part in the race as it split the field at halfway resulting in a group of 10 riders at the head of the field which included myself. This group stayed away for the race duration. Some poor positioning on the final corner meant only a 3rd position I should know better!

This was my first race on the Giant TCR Advanced 1 exceptionally stiff frame but still comfortable with slick gear change from the new 6700 ultegra groupset really pleased with the bike just need to improve the fitness.

St Austell TT 09/05/10 – Thought I felt ok being day after the crit but the first TT of the season was a shock to to the system just scraped top 15 nice photograph though!

Penzance crit 13/05/10 – fine sunny evening which brought out plenty of riders 40+ difficult to get away due to strong tailwind down the main straight however Junior Heffernan slipped out the front of the bunch with 15 mins to go and soloed to a convincing win. I took the sprint for 2nd place so all in all not a bad evening. Photos attached

Penzance crit 27/05/10 – Another fine day and big field (for Cornwall!). Attacking riding from the start. I formed a break with 3 other riders with 20 minutes to go. We worked together well and established a 30 second gap to the main bunch which was maintained to the finish. The sprint was fairly straight forward and I was really pleased to obtain the race victory. Photos attached

Camel Valley 50mile Time Trial 13/06/10 – first time at doing a ‘50′ and was really looking forward to the event. The best time trialists from the South west were present as the event incorporated the Navy/RAF/Marines championship.

A beautiful dawned although arriving at race HQ I was still a bit grumpy from the 0500am alarm call. First time out with a disc wheel (FSA) not to sure if it helped due to the wind conditions. Went through the first 25mile in 57 minutes and was feeling pretty good and catching plenty of riders went through a bad patch between 32 to 34 miles but got it together for the final run and completed the 50 miles in 1 hour 54 minutes. Really pleased with result and finished 6th overall out of a field of 70 riders and was the 2nd cornish rider.

Photographs from WWW.Cornwall-Photos.com

2XU COMPRESSION KIT – Rapid Race Recovery

cyclelogic — Thu, 20 May 2010 08:43:44 +0000

Now that the race season is on us with events just about every weekend and time trials during the week rapid muscle recovery is crucial in order to maintain peak performance. Check out these 2XU compression garments now in stock that will help improve blood flushing and oxygen circulation.

One other benefit that is less obvious is the prevention of muscle ‘bounce’ during training that can lead to soreness.

Targeting the calf muscle, calf guards are a great muscle containment devise that can be worn during training or competition. Using 2XU’s exclusive 50D/CK fabric that is also used in our leading compression tights, calf guards protect against leg fatigue and muscle soreness. An essential training tool for people who need extra support through their calf region when working out, the calf guards are also available with a foot stirrup for sports demanding shin protection or for when support for the Achilles region is required

We currently have compression tops, tights and the gem of the range calf guards.

WILIER – COMING SOON TO A BIKE SHOP NEAR YOU!!

cyclelogic — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:46:12 +0000

Last week a chap came in and said,

‘I”ve come into a bit of money and I am going to treat myself to a new bike, I want something that’s carbon and Italian’.

Which made us think.

In an industry where lot’s of smaller cycle brands have been squeezed out, or sucked up by the Global concerns some people want to ride something that is different, not ‘off the shelf’, something that runs Campag, something quirky or traditional, an individualbike that still offers the performance that everyone has come to expect as standard from the big boys, and that’s a gap in our range that we feel that we can fill with Wilier.

Performance? - Wilier have taken the world by storm at the cycling world championships in Varese with two golds and a silver medal haul in the 2008 World Championships.
Ace riders Ballan and Malori took gold in their respective races and in the queen of races the superb Cunego took a well-earned silver medal.

Style ? – how good do these look?

WILIER ESCAPE - MIRAGE £799

TRI CRONO - FRAMESET ONLY £1999

It’s fair to say that we are quite excited about getting our hands (and backsides) on some of this Italian product that comes with a one hundred year old Italian heritage, delivers 21st century performance and oooozes timeless style.

ANOTHER HAPPY CUSTOMER

cyclelogic — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 17:10:56 +0000

Some times it's the simplest things that bring the most pleasure.

Sure, it might not be the latest full carbon exotica with a fancy paint job but this Specialized Roll with it’s ‘UTILITY LOOK’ cuts a pretty fine dash and is more than lively enough to bring a smile to this satisfied customers face.

IN TOUCH – IN STYLE – AND IN STOCK £549