Top 10 Gift Ideas for Cyclists

Any of These Gifts Will Please All Cyclists for Any Occasion!

1. Tifosi Optics $59.99 to $79.99 

Tifosi eyewear is designed for the avid sports enthusiast. Great styling along with great optics makes this eyewear an awesome value. We have over 60 pairs in stock to choose from.

2. Niterider Lumina 350 $89.99 

Cordless and rechargeable this 350 lumen bike light is combined with a lightweight body and has a brighter, longer lasting LED.

3. Cateye Micro Wireless $60

This wireless cycling computer has 9 functions and a customizable display that allows the user to personally select the desired functions for viewing.

4. Pure Fix $325 ON SALE NOW $299

 High quality single speed fixed geared bicycle comes in many frame and wheel color combinations. This price is only good for in stock bikes.

5. Finish Line chain cleaner kit $37.99

Quick, efficient and easy to use! This cleaning kit doesn’t even require you to remove the chain. Degreaser and chain lube are included.

6. Cannondale Quick helmet $39.99 

Terrific value, this Cannondale Quick bike helmet places comfort high on the list, thanks to easy adjustment.

 7. Gift Card 

When you just can’t decide what to get that cyclist on your Christmas list. Gift cards are available in any denomination.

 8. Giant Tower 2 bicycle pump $39.99 

Smart head allows for use on presta or schrader valve. Steel barrel and base construction, along with a pressure gauge, makes for a high quality pump at an affordable price.

9. Garmin Edge 510 Bundle $399 

ON SALE NOW $369

Train smarter and share every detail. Edge 510 is a compact, touchscreen GPS bike computer with connected features that’s ideal for racing and mountain biking. Comes with hearth rate monitor strap and bike speed/cadence sensor. This price is only good for in stock product. 

10. Delta Smartphone Holder $29.99

This smart phone holder holds the iPhone and all 4.3” Android devices securely to the bicycle stem or stem cap.

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A Bicycle Helmet that Changes Everything. See Invisible Helmet to Believe It

There is no doubt that the bicycle industry has created some beautiful helmets over the years.  The technology and inventiveness of many of these helmets has been like a microcosm of the larger industry, stylish and innovative.  You can see the entire history of the helmet business all the way back to hairnets at ClassicCycleUS.com and this pictorial history.

Troxel TT Helmet - 1997

We all get that cycling is more fun with the wind blowing through our hair, and that helmets, no matter how clever and expensive, are still not something anyone would wear other than to protect brain matter. This might be about to change, or at least to allow for more out-of-the-box thinking.
If you haven’t seen this amazing video yet, we promise you’ll enjoy it. If you guess the end, tell us in the comments. If you think it will work, let us know that, too. What would you be willing to pay for one?

2014 Giant Propel Advanced SL Review

Giant Bicycles has released their 2014 Propel Advanced SL — claiming that the bike simply, ”makes you faster.”

Propel is a bike that Giant’s engineers have worked on for years; not necessarily trying to make the fastest bike in the world, but a bike that can help make you faster.

What Giant did was take every angle of every tube, the design of the brakes, fork, handlebar, and steering system and design them in such a way that it effectively cuts through the wind. Not just the wind coming directly at you, but the crosswind coming in at different yaw angles.

The Propel Advanced SL uses Giant’s T800 Carbon Fiber strands (which is the highest tensile strength used in any bicycle) to max out the stiffness, while still leaving the ride comfortable so you can ride all day.

All of the Advanced SL models (Propel, TCR, Defy) use an integrated seatpost. This seatpost gives the bike a little more flex for comfort, and ditches a few grams of weight as well.

Giant tested the 2014 Propel Advanced SL against four other brands of bikes in a wind tunnel — each one using as many proprietary components as possible and a “dummy” to simulate the weight of the rider. At 40km/hr (24 or 25 mph) – this bike finished in an hour. The other bikes finished at 12 seconds slower, 34 seconds slower, and the final two bikes at 36 seconds slower.