A few years ago Shimano tried to put the whole bike industry back onto a more reasonable schedule for model year changeover, and as I recall, it only stuck for a short time. They wanted to keep new product roll-outs in the late fall and early winter, when you’d expect them. It seems that the [...]

In my daily troll through nearly every cycling website on the planet, I came across news that the UCI, international cycling’s governing body, has approved two stages of this year’s Tour de France to be run without race radios. This should provide some interesting racing. Whether it ends up being good interesting or bad interesting [...]

Get ready, because I’m about to write on a subject I could fill 10 newsletters with – my Ridley Excalibur! My Excalibur is a custom build to say the least, so I’ll run through what I’ve got it set up with and give a mini-review on each part.
Storewide Demo Event next weekend, June 20-21. Test [...]

We had a couple of questions regarding our article from last week, so we’ve decided to dedicate this week’s article to answering those and expanding on some of the topics from last week.
Store-wide Demo Event next weekend, June 20-21. Test ride the Wilier Izoard, winner of Outside Magazine’s Gear of the Year award! 20% off [...]

Now that the weather is really nice, it’s time for group rides! We run 4 group rides out of our Excelsior, MN store each week, most of which are done at a social to moderate pace (18-19 miles per hour), and all of which are no-drop. This means if you start with us, you [...]