Ben, Paul, Kevin, Sean, Brandon, and I spent some time at the Bike Pedalers mountain bike test loop on Sunday continuing to construct the singletrack, dirt jumps, and technical climbs. Located 15 minutes from Lincoln, we are constructing the most technical, grinding, and fun private mountain biking park in the state. We are building the park to fully evaluate mountain bikes and components, and then offer educated advice and experience to our customers – and not just repeat magazine quotes or sales literature propaganda.
In the next six months, we will be test bicycles from Felt and Marin, and components from Felt, Easton, Crank Brothers, Mavic, Continental, Geax, Ritchey, Shimano, SRAM, and more. We’ll be posting up product reviews and photos following each test.
For now, here is a short video and some photos from Sunday:
Bike Pedalers is working to reinvent the bicycle store experience in the midwest – make it easier, more exciting, and less expensive.
Starting with the 2010 season Bike Pedalers will begin offering demo bicycles through our Ride and Believe Program. We think that choosing a bicycle to purchase should be easy and enjoyable, but with all of the “talk” on the Internet, bicycle magazine reviews and tests, and word of mouth, making a truly educated choice has never been more difficult.
The only way to smartly choose is to ride the bike of your dreams – and not just around in a circle in a parking lot, but out on the road alone or with the peloton, on the singletrack, or down the trail. The Bike Pedalers’ Ride and Believe Demo Program makes this possible at no cost to our customers.
The first of our 2010 demos have arrived, a 56cm Felt F3 and 56cm Felt B2.
At the core of the F3 is Felt’s Ultra-High Modulus Monocoque frame with F series geometry. Its one of the lightest frames in the world, but the bikes magic really is Felt’s legendary tuning – it’s ultra stiff, quick, and compliant at the same time. The F3 is equipped with SRAM Red front and rear derailleurs, and the compact carbon SRAM S900 crankset. Coupled with SRAM Double Tap carbon shifters and Fulcrum Racing 5 wheels, the F3 is an amazing ride. Stop by and take it for a spin today.
The Felt B2 owes it heritage to the Felt DA, one of the most aerodynamic and winning TT framesets in the world. Constructed of Ultra High Modulus carbon fiber, pared with the Bayonet 2 steering system, and fitted with Dura-Ace shifting the B2 translates every ounce of your effort into TT or Triathlon winning speed. Call us at 402 261 3003, email, or stop by to reserve your time slot now.
Did you think you were going to be bored this weekend? Why not take a leisurely drive to Norfolk Saturday and ride in the Inaugural Skyview Cyclocross Classic? Nebraska’s best riders will be there, and the course should be fun.
On October 22nd, Bike Pedalers invites you to join us to experience a One Night Event in movie theaters nationwide featuring the debut of “Race Across the Sky” – a documentary covering the 2009 Leadville Trail 100 bike race. Known as one of the most intense endurance races of all time, this film features Lance Armstrong, Chris Carmichael, Dave Wiens, and other elite and amateur cyclists who overcame extreme challenges to participate in this grueling race.
EVENT DETAILS
Race Across the Sky – Leadville Trail 100, featuring Lance Armstrong, Dave Wiens and Chris Carmichael.
October 22nd at 7:00pm CT at Southpointe Theater. Call the Southpointe movie theater box office to purchase your tickets, 441 0222. Following the movie, Bike Pedalers will be hosting a gathering for cyclists featuring complimentary drinks, food, and an opportunity to socialize with fellow cyclists as well as members of our very own Flatwater Cycling Team. After the movie, just come by our store at 16th & Pine Lake – just a few blocks from the theatre. We look forward to seeing you there.
EVENT OVERVIEW
At 10,000+ feet, against the misty backdrop of a former mining town, Leadville, Colorado, 1282 cyclists line the starting line. For many, it will be the most difficult race of their lives. For some, a bragging right to say they raced alongside the best in the world. Some imagine victory. Most hope only to finish. But everyone will count.
The race that started 25 years ago as a running race to drive tourism in Leadville has now grown to a lottery cap of 1000+ competitors, many of them the world’s most elite cyclists. But the Leadville Trail 100 “Race Across the Sky” Mountain Bike Race is not just a race of man against man: it’s man vs. man, man vs. self, man vs. elements, man vs. time. A clock set for 12 grueling hours slugs through 100 miles, over 14,000 vertical feet of climbing, some two miles above sea level, through extreme climate changes ranging from heat to hail, from rain to snow. To the racers, the risks of injury, fatigue and mechanical failure pale next to the chance that they will fall behind the 12 hour cut off mark and be eliminated.
Rivalries include six-time defending champion Dave Wiens vs. international star / seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong. Inspirational stories of human triumph include a Leadville woman rider who was critically injured by a car while training for last year’s race, another who suffers from multiple sclerosis, and 45+ rider who has raced all 15 years.
Whether they’re international stars of the sport or everyday folks with the will to finish a race whose difficulty is on par with the Ironman, the grit to push to their own physical and emotional limits strikes an elegant symmetry between racer and environment and a struggling former mining town whose very existence now relies on the tourism generated by this race.
To view additional still photos and watch the trailer for the movie from the 2009 Leadville Trail 100 race, visit www.raceacrossthesky.com
At 12,600 feet anything can happen…Don’t miss this intense one night event!
Bike Pedalers’ Flatwater Cycling Team rider Brandon Harpster continued to impress this weekend with wins in the Angry Cow Adventures Mountain Bike Enduro and the Omaha Cyclocross Weekend #2 using his Marin Scandium HT and brand new 2010 Felt F75X cross bike.
Brandon’s new F75X just arrived at the shop on Thursday and his first ride [...]
Los Angeles — Felt-sponsored athletes racked up two more national titles at the USA Cycling National Track Championships Friday night. On Day 3 of the competition, Sarah Hammer scored her second 2009 title with a win in the 3000-meter Individual Pursuit, and Adam Duvendeck won the Men’s Match Sprint.
Begium—The professional road racing season may be winding down, but Garmin-Slipstream sprinter Tyler Farrar hasn’t slowed down a bit. On Sunday the American speedster added another major victory to his incredible 2009 season with a win at the four-day Franco-Belge stage race.
Farrar showed great poise in Sunday’s 147-kilometer Stage 4 from Mons to Tornai, [...]
Bike Pedalers has been part of the Midwest cycling community since 1983 from our location at 33rd & B Street in Lincoln, Nebraska. Our two little houses have stocked many different bicycle brands and serviced tens of thousands of customers. We experienced the creation of the mountain biking phenomena, the introduction of carbon fiber in [...]
Team Garmin-Slipstream rider Tyler Farrar got back to his winning ways with a victory at the opening stage of the Franco-Belge stage race on Thursday. Farrar outsprinted Italian Danilo Napolitano and Belgian National Champion Tom Boonen to win the 213km stage from Templeuve to Mouscron, Belgium.
Farrar now holds the overall leader’s jersey in the [...]
