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