Our 24 hour mountain bike race is this Saturday noon-Sunday noon. There’s still time and space to sign up if you want to race. We have some awesome door prizes to give away this year.

Also check Mark’s Blog for a little write up of his commute(or lack thereof) and his mental state.

With the rain the last couple mornings (Monday and Tuesday), I was forced to choose between a cold, wet, and windy commute or the much more comfortable drive. Both days I opted for the drive. I wasn’t really disappointed or anything with my choice, it was basically made for me by the downpours that were occuring during the 15 minute window I have to leave my apartment.

I commute from northeast Ankeny to Johnston, it’s about 12.5 miles and 45 minutes. Some mornings it’s tough to get going, but nearly every night the ride back home helps me unwind and reflect on the day before I get home and have to deal with cooking dinner and paying bills. I never really realized how important this ride home was until Tuesday night. When i got home (a good 30 minutes earlier than normal), I noticed that I was slighty angry. I didn’t even know why or what about, I was just annoyed and on edge for no reason, work went fine, no personal problems, nothing i could figure out. My only guess is that my brain wasn’t quite right with no riding for 2 days in a row. So I rode my unicycle around my building a few times, had a beer, and vowed to get out there and commute the next day (almost) no matter what. And it was a wonderful ride in this morning. The air was cool and nice, finally felt like autumn might be here soon. That’s all for now…

Basically everything in the store is on sale. All the 2006 bikes(which is most of them) are priced to move, and there’s huge hockey markdowns across the board. So if you get a few minutes during your holiday shopping time, stop in and check us out.

We also have tons of sweet looking new ‘07 kids bikes, just in time for Christmas.  Watch Mark’s blog for a post of two about his trip to Moab he just returned from.

Welcome to everyone who’s just now finding/coming to our new site. The old one hadn’t been updated in about 4 years and it is now officially gone. This site is going to be updated fairly regularly, with the goal of keeping you the customer informed. In that vein, we’d like to announce that we’ve marked down all 2006 road bikes. The 2007 models will be here soon and we need to make room. There’s still plenty of selection but if you’re in the market for a new road bike, don’t wait too long, these bikes won’t last.