This looks fun!

More info at: http://303cycling.com/Gold-Sprints-Lazy-Dog-roller-races

Andy B
outsideallday.com

Dear Friend and Loyal Bailey Bikes Customer,

Visit our new website at www.Bailey-Bikes.com and you will see exciting changes to our product offering and special offers to you our loyal customer! First, in the next 90 days we will have three new road bikes. Second, we will only be using Ritchey stems, bars and seat posts on all Bailey Road Bikes. Third, check out our line-up of power meters for sale and rental.

To complement our new road bikes, Bailey will have its own line of Carbon Wheels, the Bailey CR series. The Bailey CR series will come in three sizes 32, 46 and 66mm in clincher rim. The quality and technology is consistent with the 2010 Reynolds Carbon Wheel and is equipped with the best braking performance and heat management technology in the cycling industry!

The Bailey Brand is committed to offering our customers the highest level of quality in customer service, competitive pricing and engineering excellence.

Be the first to ride Bailey CR Series wheels by taking advantage of our Presale!

ü Price $1,400 per pair

ü $100.00 off presale orders

ü One year warranty

ü One time Crash replacement at our purchase costs.

ü Hutchison Tires and Tubes at 30% off MSRP per pair!

We want to thank each one of you for supporting and growing the Bailey Brand.

Sincerely:

Mark Palmer John Bailey

Co Founder and Partner Co Founder and Partner

Mark.Palmer@Bailey-Bikes.com John.Bailey@Bailey-Bikes.com

As a friend of John Bailey and customer who has enjoyed the ultralight SILK Tubular wheels Bailey bikes has distributed in the US I wanted to share this info as they are in a transition period to more great things.

-DSheek

Season ender: The best (and worst) of U.S. bike racing in 2010
By Brian Holcombe of VeloNews.com
Published Dec 24th 2010 6:00 PM EST

The 2010 U.S. road season had a little bit of everything. There were little known domestics like Andrew Talansky battling top international pros at the Tour of the Gila. Caleb Fairly broke through with a win at the Tour of the Battenkill in horrendous conditions. Neither ride made the six top moments in U.S. racing, so which ones did?

We took a look at the best (and worst) of U.S. racing this year with VeloNews‘ North American Male Rider of the Year, Ben Day (Fly V Australia).

Click here to read the rest of the article.

Andy B
outsideallday.com

Generating Portable Power by Bicycle
By Glenn Meyers
December 17, 2010

In an era when an abundance of items requires electrical or battery power to operate, what happens when you aren’t near the grid or – heaven forbid! – the power goes out? There are some interesting portable power generating options are available that generate electricity from the sun or wind or by simply pedaling a stationary bicycle.

Click here to read the rest of the article.

Andy B
outsideallday.com

Landis wore a wire, recorded video footage to implicate Michael Ball in doping investigation
by Shane Stokes
December 19, 2010

Controversial Rock Racing owner Michael Ball was implicated in doping matters by Floyd Landis, who wore a hidden wire and recorded video footage for federal agents.

According to an unnamed source who spoke to the New York Daily News, Landis filmed what is thought to have been human growth hormone and other doping products in the refrigerator at Ball’s luxury apartment in Marina Del Rey, California. The audio and video data was then used by FDA agent Jeff Novitzky to secure a search warrant, which in turn led to the seizure of banned substances.

Click here to read the rest of the article.

So so sad.

Andy B
outsideallday.com

Belgian amateur champion receives one-year ban
By: Cycling News
December 10, 2010

Rudy Taelman, 49, Belgian amateur champion of his age category, has been handed a one-year ban for a positive doping control for which he had asked. As an active anti-doping advocate, he had instigated the doping controls performed by the Flemish Community at the Belgian Championships of the WAOD amateur cycling federation. But after he’d won his age group event, he tested positive for Methylhexanamine.

Click here to read the rest of the article.

Wow…

Andy B
outsideallday.com

Local Fort Collins cyclist, triathlete and Doctor, Jason Barker has started a website called NaturalAthleteClinic.com. Jason is an expert in natural sports medicine. He specializes in providing unique, proven solutions for athletes that want more than just ibuprofen for their sports and performance-related health issues. He provides relevant, scientific information about how you can improve your overall health and athletic performance.

I’m excited about this site and what it can do to help inform athletes about alternative solutions for taking care of themselves. Jason is all about prevention and wellness, rather than medicating symptoms with drugs that really don’t heal or treat the original cause. Jason is BRILLIANT in sports medicine and has become a good buddy of mine. I trust him a ton.

Check out the site at: www.naturalathleteclinic.com

The Question and Answer section: www.naturalathleteclinic.com/q-and-a

Dig around and learn a little,

Andy B
outsideallday.com

Found this story on the Fluid Recovery blog. Fluid and Team RideClean have been partners for a while. It’s fun to see these guys get bumped up.

Team RideClean moves up to Continental level for 2011
By David Brown

Team RideClean, an elite American cycling team based out of Phoenix, Arizona, has registered as a USA Cycling professional team and a UCI Continental team for the coming season!

Fluid has been a partner of the team for two years now and couldn’t be more proud of the group’s efforts. As the official recovery drink of choice for Team RideClean, Fluid plays a role in supporting RideClean’s mission of promoting clean sports. This company promotes drug-free and ethical sports practices on the professional and amateur level through an educational outreach program. Their goal is to build a legacy of young athletes who understand the importance of ethics as they progress through the ranks. They also know that healthy, effective nutrition is a key element to safely competing at such a high level year after year. This is where Fluid is always proud to be of service.

Click here to read the rest of the story.

I really need to ride my bike today!

Andy B
outsideallday.com

Slipstream Sports, LLC announced earlier this year that Team Garmin-Transitions and Cervélo SA will join forces for the 2011 season to create a new team that will be known as Garmin-Cervélo. In November it was announced that Castelli would provide clothing for both the pro men’s and women’s teams, as well as the development squads. “We’re very excited to work with Castelli for the next three years,” said Jonathan Vaughters, CEO of Slipstream Sports.

Lot’s of new stuff going on over at Team Garmin-Cervélo. I’m hopeful for their 2011 season!

Andy B
outsideallday.com

My buddy Tony has recently discovered that he love’s riding bikes and is documenting it on his new blog Joe To Pro Cycling. He’s a lot like me, a husband, a father an employee and a bike rider. The site is fun…

More info at:
http://joetoprocycling.com
http://www.facebook.com/JoeToProCycling

Here’s to being a weekend warrior!

Andy B
outsideallday.com

More info at:
http://www.rocknroadcyclery.net

Happy shopping!

Andy B
outsideallday.com

Paved Magazine is out and available on newsstands.

Check it out.

Lance graces the cover. Articles cover Flanders, the B/W photos of Stephan Canfleteren, essays on cycling, and portraits of five Americans that changed cycling. Six bikes are reviewed – all for the hipsters.

The attitude of the magazine is heavy on why cycling is great and less of a focus on competition and new technologies. The intro by the editor is written to the core which does have a slight touch of irony considering the sheer amount of high end products touted and advertised in the book. It’s heavy on culture and light on racing. Photos are heavy on captivation.

Grab a copy.

Peugeot’s first success was with its”Grand Bi”, which appeared in 1882. This ancestor of the modern bicycle was a strange and impractical contraption. It was rigged up with two unequal wheels, and the pedal assembly was fixed directly onto the huge front wheel. Four years later, Armand Peugeot launched the manufacture of the first true bicycle, with equal-sized wheels and chain-control gear system, from the Beaulieu factory.

Models were presented under the “Lion” brand at the Universal Exhibition in 1889, and a shop was opened in Paris at 32, avenue de la Grande-Armée. People were witnessing the appearance of a range of bicycles for the whole family – men, women and children. Even for clergymen.

It was with the “Petite Reine” that the Peugeot name first became popular on every road across France. At the start of the 1890s, the Peugeot catalogue contained no fewer than 32 pages and, in spite of the strong competition from British bicycles that were very popular in France, nearly 10,000 machines were produced by Peugeot each year. This growth was helped by Edouard Michelin’s 1891 invention of the inflatable tyre fixed to the rim, and easily removed in the event of a puncture.

Many competitions were born in this era, in response to the huge, popular craze. One – the Tour de France, which was first organised in 1903 – was to become the nation’s greatest competition.

The increase in the Peugeot range grew: tandems, tricycles, quadricycles and quinticycles. Even a folding bicycle was produced, and was bought by the French army. Before the First World War, 80,000 bicycles were being produced each year by Peugeot workshops. During the conflict, Peugeot supplied 63,000 bicycles to the war effort.

In 1926 the bicycle business became legally autonomous, with the constitution of a separate company from the automobile division: the Nouvelle Société des Cycles Peugeot. It grouped together all two-wheeled vehicles, whether or not they had engines. The bicycle business flourished for a long time. At its peak, in 1930, 162,000 bicycles were produced.

Half a century later, everything had greatly changed. The 1980s proved a difficult time, when Peugeot cycles and motorcycles suffered stiff competition from Asia. The bicycle and motorcycle businesses were separated in 1987, the year of the merger of Cycles Peugeot with AOP (Acier et Outillage Peugeot), the steel and tools division, to constitute ECIA (Equipements et Composants pour l’Industrie Automobile), the vehicle components division.

Bicycles were then relinquished to Cycleurope, a conglomerate that grouped together several European brands and already owned the French company, Gitane. In the same way as for the other group divisions, the products were still sold under the Peugeot brand.

Fortunately, at the end of the 1990s the bicycle business was relaunched, which put an end to the brief rule of Cycleurope. This historically significant product for Peugeot was helped by the bicycle’s return to popularity in a strongly developing market. Four ranges are offered today, via the Peugeot Automobiles network: Off-road, Hybrid, Road and Junior.

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