September happenings Urban, beginner rides, tri races

The next race is Tarpon Springs on the 10th at 8am sign up at www.altavistasports.com

Top Cop is the last race on October 30th at 8am, sign up at www.active.com

Wanted to let everyone know that instead of running onTuesday's August 30th and September 6, 13, 20, and the 27th I will be racing at the criterium at Woodlands Park on Waters Avenue. The race starts at 6:30pm and is a 30 lap race each lap is .8 miles. They will still have the run for anyone that wants to go at the Running Center at 7pm. Anyone that wants to work on their bike skills can come to the race, it costs $8 and is a real challenge. Also if you just want to ride Jodi, Katie and several other riders go to do a 15-17 mile pace around the course in the opposite direction and have a great casual ride and a good ride for any BEGINNERS. To get to Woodlands you head west on Waters from Dale Mabry and turn left into Woodlands about 2 miles down just before you cross the railroad tracks. Take the 2nd right once in Woodlands and park down on the left. Look for the bikes.

We will be riding at San Antonio on Sunday's the 4th, 11th, 18th, and 25th of September directions are as follows, we will meet at 7:15 AM to get there you drive up hwy 75 to the exit for SR 52 turn right, East go to blinking light then turn left onto Curly Rd and go down till a green sign for bicycles and turn left at the lumber yard and parking lot is on right.
Be ready to leave at 7:30 am. This is a 40 mile ride in the rolling hills and speeds range from 16-22mph. Not a beginner ride, we will have directions to hand out for anyone that shows.
The next tech class is September 22nd Thursday at 7pm. If you want to attend please email or call to put your name on the list. We will email you on the 19th of September to remind you of the class.

We are going to be having an Urban Assault ride on September 14th at 8 pm downtown. Meet at the shop at 7 pm or downtown at Walgreen's at the corner of Bayshore and Platt at 7:45 pm. Just behind the Publix's. A typical Urban consist of us on mountain bikes and hybrids riding thru streets and parking garages throughout downtown, Ybor, Channelside, and sometimes Hyde Park. We usually get 12-18 miles in and have lots of rest times while some riders do jumps and tricks at different locations.

Be sure to stop by and talk to Manny, he just got back from a Trek Travel trip to the Canadian Rockies. He has stories of snow, bears, and of course lots of great riding.

Raffle for Lance Livestrong bike

The ticket sales are still going strong, we have less than 40 tickets to sell and hope to be out by the end of the month. Come in today to get your 1 in 100 chance to win the $9500 56cm Livestrong bike and don't forget we have a 2nd place prize of the Giro limited edition Livestrong helmet valued at $300 and a third place prize of a $100 gift certificate to the shop. That gives you a 1 in 33 chance of getting a prize. We will announce a date for the drawing, party, and sale once all the tickets are sold.

We will have an after hours party the night of the drawing and will only allow ticket holders and immediate family to attend. The party will be full of food and drinks, oh and did I say sale. If you can imagine it than it will come true. The sale prices will be worth the price of admission. We will have bikes and everything else under the roof marked down to unbelievable prices.

Please tell a friend and consider buying another ticket if you have already gotten one, remember that all the proceeds above the cost go towards building a bike shelter on the Suncoast Trail, something we all will use.

Tickets are $100 each

Thank you

August 2005 calendar of events

For those of you that have not heard we have purchased Oliver's Cycle sports in New Tampa on Bruce B. Downs. Randy will be working there full time and Jodi will also be spending most of her time there. We hope that this will help us serve you, our customers and friends, better with all of your biking needs. Please let us know if we can do anything to make your experience with either shop better.

Tuesday 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th we will be running at the Running Center at 7pm. 3 to 4 miles at whatever pace you are comfortable with. The Running Center is 1/2 mile south of our store in the same shopping center as Arigotos restaurant on the East side of Dale Mabry Hwy.

Thursday 11th and the 25th we will be swimming at Lake Josephine on Hutchinson road. We meet at the shop at 6:30pm and car pool to the lake, it is 6 miles away.

Wednesday the 17th David, Jodi , Chad, and Manny fly to Madison, Wisconsin to see all the new Trek, Gary Fisher, Greg Lemond and Bontrager products.

Saturday the 20th Randy, Tim, Joe, and Andy fly to Madison for the Trek show.

Be sure to stop by the shops after the 22nd to see all of the new catalogs with the new product.
You can be the first to back order that Madone 5.9 SSL that you have been wanting.
Also there are several 2006 models already arriving at both shops. Several WSD Women Specific design bicycles and products are arriving daily.

Thursday the 25th we will have our 7pm FREE tech class on flat repair and general maintenance. If you are interested in learning more than what our free class has to offer be sure to talk to Manny about his Park Tool School classes. Please RSVP for the Tech class so we can be sure to have enough staff for the class.