Fixedhttp://www.pumaville.com/downloads/book101.pdf wheel 101 from Pumaville

http://www.pumaville.com/downloads/book101.pdf

Great Bike Ride WA

Time is running on & they have over 2000 entries already for this momentous ride from Albany-Margaret River-Perth. We are constantly servicing & upgrading bikes for this epic & remeber we have lots of accessories to make your trip more enjoyable. We will be uploading pages soon with suggestions & tips. One product which will be popular is 100psi 28mm & 30mm tyre upgrades for popular hybrid bikes which will make the ride that much easier with a little less rubber on the road. Likewise mtb knobbly tyres get the chop with Duro's new reflective & puncture resistant 26" road tyres. We also have numerous racks & racktop bags plus plenty of hydration solutions.

Sub 200$ mtb bikes

20 more sub-200$ mtb's arrived today , various colours & sizes. Remember these bikes are fully assembled & safety checked NOT sold in a box!
PLUS remember GIANT mountain bikes start well under $300 too plus a disc brake model well under $600!

More Selle Italia seats

More Selle Italia seats especially SLR Transam arrived at special price of $120 ea various colours. email us for quotes on this brand & new reduced prices.

Track stuff arriving

Velocity track hubs sealed bearing & flip flop design with lockring 32H $150pr
Some more skinsuits reduced to $99
Deep V rims some assorted drillings $70ea
Tufo tubular track tyres 150psi $79ea,
economy singlespeed chainset $49
Various Gebhardt track chainrings $65ea
NEW 2006 models from DURATEC email for delivery times & images.

CRX 2 bikes from GIANT

We have had some CRX2 arrive be quick as they won't last long as usual.

XMAS

Xmas is nearly upon us & bikes (especially the lower-mid price GIANT's) are running out the door , so get in early to avoid disappointment in not getting your first choice colour or model.
I have published a basic page of our popular gift products & we also have some festive gift vouchers.
http://members.iinet.net.au/~ideal/XMAS_SPECIALS.html

Just back from Vanuatu

Some of the staff are just back from Port Vila , Vanuatu. The GIANT Halfway folding bikes travelled well & were ideal transport for upto 40km trips around town. Virgin Blue have some great deals there now from Oz & beats the hustle of Bali etc. We can recommend Poppies on the Lagoon! Will add some cycling photos soon!

Last 2 Flatbar Shoguns with Tiagra

We've managed to secure the last two Large 2006 Shogun Mach2 at $799 with Shimano Tiagra equipment . www.shogunbicycles.com.au

We are closed this Saturday

For this Saturday only November 19th 2005 , IDEAL CYCLES will be closed for business due to a family wedding. Please contact us to arrange an alternative pickup or delivery time for weekend bike sales.

Carbon deals

Some great carbon deals from Vincolo:
carbon/alu bars 40-42-44 $90
carbon moncoque seatpost 300mm $80
carbon seatpost 350mm $55

Master's Criteriums start

The West Coast Master criterium series started on the weekend with a good turnout, events are held most Sundays at the Kewdale Circuit near to Perth's International Airport. Pictured Below Jane McIntyre (ne Slack-Smith , ex National road champion) modelling the West Coast cycling top. Our own Terry Lack (68) catches a drink in the closing stages . Barry Eversden far left eventual winner in the leadup to the sprint with Terry & Jane in contention.

Cycling Ads from the UK archives

http://www.tv-ark.org.uk/commercials/commercials_p-s/pgtips-c.rm








& probably the reason for the fantastic decline of Raleigh:
http://www.tv-ark.org.uk/commercials/commercials_p-s/raleigh1977.rm

New road tyres Angliru 700x23 25$ each

NOW LOWER PRICE JUST $15 EA...have had some on my bike for over 2 months & performing just fine!
Still have some left from the first shipment . 230 gr road racing tyre with kevlar bead just 25$ each , made in the Thailand like all the big Italian brands !! :))
That's 1/2 price for not having an Italian name on the side !

Track chainrings back in-stock

Gebhardt top of the line track chainrings (see earlier post on new Hour Record) are back in-store choices:
130: 46-51T (Shimano road)
135: 46-51T (Campy road /Miche track)
144: 46-51T (Standard Track Shimano/Sugino/SunTour, Campy)

All 1/8" black reinforced design with machined teeth.
All for great price of $65.

Cyclepassion German-style

German Anke Wilken introduces the world to road bikes & glamour with her 'Cyclepassion' 06 calender. If you need to ask how much .....as the saying goes... you probably can't afford it . But seriously I see it is about 25UKP in Europe but if I get enough interest I can probably get some in a future Euro shipment.
See more at: www.cyclepassion.com

New landings for summer 06

Some new clothing due early November from our friends in Medellin.

Back on-line !!!!!!!!!!!

After a long break the blog is back on-line & back to the comfort-zone of Perth after the frenetic life in Hong Kong & Shenzen, China.

2006 Mtb features XtC1 & 2

Image 1 : Avid brakes are part of the SRAM group (Rockshox, Avid, SRAM, Truvativ) which is beginning to rival Shimano on high-end mtb bikes. The Avid Juicy brakes are featured on the XtC1 & 2 among others. Lock-on grips(with 2 allen-key bolts) are standard issue on the XtC1 & 2 among others.
Image 2: SRAM's alternative take on the rear derailleur.
Image 3: Race Face cranks have always been popular & now feature the rigid external bearing system. (XtC2)
Image 4&5: Pop-loc by RockShox is featured on GIANT's high-end mountain bikes , this feature activated by a trigger on the bars & enables the adjustment of the fork to reduce compression when climbing & riding on smooth surfaces at high speed.

New road bikes

New road bikes arriving soon , these represent excellent value for their specification for entry-mid level road bikes. The Samurai model features Shimano's 105 9sp gearing on a sub-$1000 bike. The Ninja features the soon to be released Shimano 105 10 sp equipment which will run concurrently with its 105 9sp sibling.

New 50 page GIANT 06 catalogue in-store

New 2006 Giant catalogue including the new Performance range now in-store. Recreational catalogue in-store too.
Send a Self-addressed A4 envelope with $1 stamp if you live in a regional area not serviced by a GIANT dealer & require the new catalogue.

Duratec hi-res images

Tour de France stage winner Jan Svorada wins the 2005 Elite road championships of the Czech/Slovak Republics. Jan rides a custom DURATEC Cool Rx2 equipped with Shimano Dura Ace.





Some new hi-res images of 2005/6 Duratec bikes & frames. Above is the 'European-made' Heroine CR1 bike & frame , the frame in the 'skunkworks' finish. I enthasise European-made because very few 'boutique' carbon frames with top euro names are actually made in Europe, due to lax euro content laws just painting a frame could be considered 'Made in Italy' ! The forks are made in Taiwan like everybody elses :)
These frames are custom-made to your requirements & can even be made as a track version with all aluminium rear triangle. Not bad for a 2500$ pricepoint but if you want one of these beauties for summer you better be quick as production time for these is double the normal 4-6 week wait for Duratec's aluminium frames pictured below.
MAGNETIC T7 TRACK FRAME
FAST!!! A FULLY KITTED SPRINTER TIME-TRIAL BIKE.


A popular mtb marathon bike in Europe , the Sonix CX with internally-routed cables to keep shifting beautifully crisp. Pictured with XTR finishing kit.



After Belgians the Czechs are the World's leading cyclo-cross riders hence Duratec also produce a top-level cyclocross frame.

2005 GIANT update

05 NRS3 Sold
05 AC Sold ('06 in-store)
05 OCR Zero Sold ('06 in-store along with OCR1 & 2)
05 TCR Composite 1 46.5cm (just one left)
05 OCR3 xs-s-m
05 CRX3 m-l
Iguana 17"
XTC3 17"-19"

These bikes were available on Sunday August 21, ring for update!

New GP4000 tyres now in

Just in-store today for their Worldwide launch we have the very smart Gold treaded GP4000 race tyres from German manufacturer Continental selling for $85.00 each 700x23mm . Be the first on the block with these snazzy tyres.

We have also secured some flash-looking yellow Velocity Spartacus 700C road wheelsets with contrasting black hubs & spokes. These will be available within the week at a special price of $325 available to suit 8/9/10 speed Shimano. The gold Nuvian wheels which look hot shod with gold Conti tyres are back in store next week too. Contact us for more details.

Canadian Outback

Being a commited 'Europhile' (Continetal Europe that is, anywhere West of the UK) I was never that keen when my wife wanted to go to Canada , I just thought of it as Australia without the sun. Anyway one of our friends forwarded these image of mountain biking near Spruce Lake & I am sure this will encourage a few of our readers to hop on a plane next summer.

Composite OCR

As the description says this is pretty self-explanatory ie a carbon-fibre OCR framed bike. Pictured below is an image from earlier in the year from Taiwan so take-off the triple chainset & swap for a double compact model. These bikes are due into Perth in a couple of weeks.

GIANT Trinity

Well not actually a GIANT TRINITY but I snapped these pictures in Taiwan earlier in the year & this is along the lines of the Trinity except the production model will have a full aero carbon seatpost.

2006 RRP/SRP GIANT PERFORMANCE RANGE

The prices below are suggested retail prices for Australia for Giant's 2006 performance range . Use these prices as a guide only.
Well over 50% of these bikes are available now & lots more within the month , contact us for more accurate model-specific delivery dates.
#NB# ALL 2006 bikes from the GIANT Performance & Recreational range now have LIFETIME GUARANTEE to the original owner for the frame & rigid fork. Full-Suspension & composite frames are included but NOT suspension forks & rear suspension assemblies which are limited to the original manufacturer's warranty usually 1 year.

** New additions to range
ROAD
**TCR Advanced LE $8499.00 (Extended seat-tube)
**TCR Advanced Team$7499.00 (Just like Vino's & the Kaiser's TDF 2005 bikes )
TCR Advanced $5499.00
TCR Composite Zero $4999.00
TCR Composite 1 $3599.00
TCR Composite 2 $2999.00
TCR 1 $2499.00TCR 2 $1999.00
**TCR Trinity $4499.00 (Awesome carbon TT/Tri bike)
TCR Aero 1 $1999.00
TCR Aero 2 $1499.00
**OCR Composite $2999.00 (OCR concept in carbon)
OCR Zero $2299.00
OCR 1 $1899.00
**OCR 1w $1899.00 (Women's specific road 105)
OCR 2 $1399.00
OCR 3 $999.00
**OCR 24 $849.00 (Junior road bike 8-12 years)

FLAT-BAR ROAD
CRX 1 $1499.00
CRX 2 $1099.00
CRX 3 $749.00
**CRX 4 $599.00 (Budget flat-bar road bike)

FULL SUSPENSION ROAD
DH comp $3699.00
Faith 1 $4299.00
Faith 2 $3299.00
Reign 1 $4499.00
Reign 2 $3199.00
Reign 3 $2299.00
Trance 1 $4999.00
Trance 2 $3199.00
Trance 3 $2199.00
AC $1549.00

HARD-TAIL ROAD
STP Zero $1899.00
STP 1 $1449.00
STP 2 $999.00
**XtC Composite $4999.00 (Modern-day MCM)
XtC Zero $3399.00
XtC 1 $2499.00
XtC 2 $1999.00
XtC 3 $1499.00

NEW Giant road bikes

Back online after another manic week , more & more 2006 bikes from GIANT are arriving daily with some really nice surprises when we get them out of the boxes. We have over 50 Giant bikes on the floor so you pop in for a browse. I managed to weigh a couple of the new road bikes as the new OCR Zero seemed amazingly light even in size L for a $2000 road bike out of the box.
2006
OCR2 size Medium 9.8kg (including reflectors & accessories)
OCR1 size Medium 8.85kg ( "" "")
OCR Zero LARGE 8.67kg (" "") logic would mean a smaller size will be lighter :)

From 2005 we still have some Composite Zero's in size Small 46.5mm with all the carbon goodies & a bike without pedals as they are sold will weigh in at 7.63kg. At $2999 these basically @#$$% all over the opposition but above price is while stocks last.

Spinner-what's in a name

You will notice a few mountain bikes on the store floor with Spinner/InSync forks of late , well this leading Taiwanese company was a constructor for RockShox but now RS has moved all it construction in-house so now Spinner has ramped up its own brand of forks ,so watch out for more of this brand. http://www.spinner-usa.com

New Conti tyres

After years of sterling service the ContinentalGP3000 road tyre from Germany has a successor the GP4000 with new metallic colours & improved performance features.Available late August. Visit http://www.conti-online.com

DK bikes X-Games

Congratulation to Chris Doyle on his 2nd place on the 3rd day of competition at the ESPN X-Games in California. Chris rides DK bikes & Ideal Cycles is proud to add the leading bmx brand of DK bikes to it's product line. http://www.dkbicycles.com

GOOGLE EARTH

If you haven't downloaded this program yet we can recommend it:
http://earth.google.com/index.html

Above are some images of our shop location:
32deg 03' 46.07" South
115deg 47'18.77"East

Sosenka training at Prague's Nad Trebesin velodrome earlier this week.

Congratulations Ondrej Sosenka

Congratulations Ondrej Sosenka beating Chris Boardman's Hour record at Moscow's indoor velodrome. The Hour records is equivalent to the mile record in athletics & Lance Armstrong was expected to attack the record before his retirement. Andrej comes from my second city: Prague, is renowned as an ace time-triallist & one of the tallest riders in the peloton. This kind of blows the aerodynamics out of the water as he stop alot more air than Chris.
The bike was equipped with Czech-made Gebhardt chainring as imported by Ideal Cycles, the bike was a Moser.

Vale Amy Gillett

July 2005
Media Statement
It is with deep regret that the Australian Sports Commission and Cycling Australia can confirm Australian road cyclist, Amy Gillett, 29, has been killed and five of her teammates injured in a tragic accident in Germany. The accident happened at approximately 1:40am (AEST) this morning.The cyclists, members of the Australian Women's Road Cycling Team, were on a training ride near the town of Zeulenroda (80 kilometres south of Leipzig) in southern Germany when the accident occurred. A car went out of control and careened into the riders.The ASC and CA would like to extend our deepest sympathies to Amy's family and friends.Australian Sports Commission staff, including an Australian Institute of Sport doctor and an Australian Institute of Sport psychologist are expected to arrive in Germany as soon as practicable to lend any necessary support.With the help of DFAT (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade), the ASC and CA are making all necessary arrangements to ensure that all appropriate communications and assistance are put in place.The squad was training for the Tour of Thuringen which was due to start on 20 July. The race has been postponed for one day as a mark of respect and to allow for a memorial service.


http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,15978746^23218,00.html


http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15978975-29277,00.html

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15979918-29277,00.html

Lance audio extract

An audio extract of : It's Not About the Bike My Journey Back to Life
by Lance Armstrong


http://www.learnoutloud.com/images/format/WMP2_for_9.jpg

Poor Christophe Mengin (FDJ) crashed out 500metres from the line in yesterdays Tour stage. From our archives that's Christophe (centre) back in 1991 riding The Isle of Man International criterium , that's me on the right riding the Diamant bike with Scott dropin bars & a Swiss team rider on the left. 

Tour statistics

1: neighbouring country that will host a stage finish. (Karlsruhe, Germany)
2: rest days (July 11 and 18)
3: mountain top finishes (Courcheval, Ax-3 Domaines, Saint-Lary-Soulan)
4: jerseys up for grabs (yellow, green, polka-dot, white)
5: French teams at the start
6: Tour wins by Lance Armstrong
9: riders in each team
11: in millions, trinkets and gifts handed out by the publicity cavalcade
15: million spectators on the roadsides of France cheering on the riders (68% male, 32% female)
19km: distance of the first stage, an individual time trial.
20: bonification seconds accorded to the winner of each stage (except for the time trials)
21: stages
22: mountain passes in this tour (hors category, first and second category)
30: French riders taking part
36: French Tour wins since 1903
42: brands represented in the publicity cavalcade
65: cols and hills measured and recorded
67,5km: team time trial distance
74,5km: aggregate distance for individual time trials
75: TV channels transmitting the Tour
92: edition of the Tour de France
144,5km: distance of the last stage, the shortest on the Tour (Corbeil-Essones-Paris)
170: countries where Tour will be transmitted
189: number of riders starting the Tour, 21 teams
239,5km: distance of the longest stage (Pau-Reval)
400 euros: the prize money available to the riders that finish the Tour beyond 90th place
1200: accredited journalists, photographers and cameramen
1600: vehicles present on the Tour
2645m: altitude of Galiber (11th stage), The 'roof' of this Tour
2900: the length of the final straight stretch in Tours (3rd stage)
3608km: the total distance
8000 euros: the prize money given to the winner of each stage
8400: feeding bags distributed during the Tour
20,000 euros: prize money given to the most combative rider
21,000: policemen (gendarmes and CRS) present
42,000: water bottles used by the teams
360,000km: the approximate distance of all the Tours ever run
400,000: the cheque give to the overall GC winner
2,946,200 euros: the total prize money available at the Tour (afp)

Tour team links

Team links for 2005 Tour, some have diaries , biometrics, competitions etc. T-Mobile's site is particularly good as you would expect from the Germans. You don't realise how many personel it takes to run a pro team the calibre of T-Mobile-Giant. Click on the management pages it brings up a few familiar names from the past in pro cycling especially guys like Ludwig & Kummer from the former DDR squad that i had the misfortune :) to race against in the late 80's.


http://www.ag2r-cyclisme.com/index.asp
http://www.equipebouyguestelecom.fr/home/pages/ebt/v4/l3/s18/home_lng3_spo18_sitebt.shtml
http://www.equipe-cofidis.com/default.asp?lg=fr
http://www.credit-agricole.fr/partenariats/cyclisme/
http://www.davitamon-lotto.com/
http://team.discovery.com/
http://www.dominavacanzeproteam.it/proteam.htm
http://www.fundacioneuskadi.com/asp/Principal_C.asp
http://www.fassabortolo.com/it/
http://www.fdjeux.com/
http://www.gerolsteiner.de/index.php?flash=1
http://www.lampre-caffita.com/home/index.asp
http://www.libertyseguroswurth.com/idioma.htm
http://www.teamliquigasbianchi.it/
http://www.phonak-cycling.ch/News/
http://www.quickstepcycling.com/
http://www.rabobank.nl/
http://www.riis-cycling.com/
http://www.saunierduval-prodir.com/cyclingteam/home.jsp?language=EN
http://www.t-mobile-team.com/cms/tmoteam/en/