Meet Mirinda Carfrae this Sunday – PLUS Cannondale Demo Day & Lots MORE!!

Big day this Sunday at Bike Religion, Newport Beach.

Ironman Triathlete, Mirinda Carfrae is coming down to meet and mingle with Bike Religion customers and friends.

We are kick starting the day with a 10am ride. It will be a easy/med paced 20 mile ride, lead by the Bike Religion gang.

Cannondale Demo Bikes will be available to ride all day from 9am. Please bring your Helmet and ID, plus pedals and shoes if you have them. All the NEW 2010 Cannondale Bikes will be available, Road, Tri, MTB. So a great day to test ride the top of the line bikes for 2010. All welcome, Demo rides are free. Why not take one out of our 10am 20 mile ride.? (Just arrive a little earlier so we can set you comfortably).

Mirinda will be at the store from 1pm-4pm. There will be give away, signings, product displays and demo, food and drinks! What more could you ask for?

We are also raffling off a Cannondale SIX carbon 5 bike, valued at $2150. Tickets will be $10, proceeds go to the Bahati Foundation.

Please come down, support Mirinda, Bike Religion and The Bahati Foundation. Bring friends and Family. All welcome!

Just Arrived– Bike Religion Custom Clothing

After months of waiting we just received a large shipment of Bike Religion Custom Clothing.  Once it is counted we will be filling all orders for customers who have pre-paid and then what’s left goes to the sales floor.  What’s left won’t last long so please if you want Bike Religion clothing come and get it!

Bike Religion Road Packages

Bike Religion is proud to announce the creation of two new road packages.  We have had so much success with our triathlon packages that we decided to create two entry level road packages.  The response to our Competitor ads displaying our triathlon packages have brought athletes in from our cold and rainy weather to get their bike and gear before the start of the triathlon season.  The B14 Tri package has been so successful that Felt Bicycles is running VERY low on bikes and may sell out before the end of spring.  The B16 Tri package still has plenty of numbers and should be fine until summer.

Z85 ROAD PACK includes :

• 2010 Felt Z85 Road Bike
• Uvex Xenova Helmet
• Shimano R540 Pedals
• Shimano R076 Shoes
• Bike Religion Water Bottle & Cage
• Vaude Saddle Bag
• Spare Tube
• Genuine Innovations Mircroflate Nano
• Pedros Tire Levers (x2)

All for only $1299

Z100 ROAD PACK includes :

• 2010 Felt Z100 Road Bike
• Uvex Xenova Helmet
• Bike Religion Water Bottle & Cage
• Vaude Saddle Bag
• Spare Tube
• Genuine Innovations Mircroflate Nano
• Pedros Tire Levers (x2)

All for only $899

Race Results

George placed second in the Death Valley Double Century more information may be found here

Tour of Murietta – results can be found here

Women’s Pro Field –Anna placed 5th in the road race and 6th in the criterium. 7th overall.

Rachel- 10th in the criterium

Colt Peterson, one of our juniors- 5th in the Cat 3 criterium.

In the Men’s Pro field – James Williamson,  in the top ten overall with a 12th in the road race, and the 5th Criterium.

Up next San Dimas Stage Race beginning 3/19-3/21– Friday opens the event with an uphill time trial, followed on Saturday by a road race and culminating Sunday with a criterium in downtown San Dimas.  Stay tuned for results next week.  You can find more information here

Newport Beach Cycling Safety

For those unaware, I recently became a member of the Newport Beach Cycling Safety Committee. We meet on a regular basis to talk about issues facing the cyclist of the greater Newport Beach area.

On Monday afternoon we had one of the last meetings of the Newport Beach Cycling Safety Committee.  The committee has been formed to come up with ideas to make cycling safer in the Newport Beach area.  The committee has met over many months and the final report to the Newport Beach City Council is almost complete.  There are some great ideas that have been put forward in the report.

Follow closely for more updates, we want the city to act on our report and hopefully put in place many or all of our recommendations. We may need your support.

Let me know if you have any suggestions for our cycling community.

Upcoming Races this Weekend

March 6— Spring Death Valley Double Century — George, our store manager, races Ultra distance events.  This event is 200 miles and 9,000 feet of climbing. You can find out more about the event on his blog  here.

March 7- CBR Criterium- Go Fast or Go Home –  The Bike Religion team will be represented in the Pro 1/2 field.  You can find more information   here

Next weekend March 12,13, and 14— Tour of Murrieta you can find more information here

Cannondale Training Today

Our Cannondale rep, Steve Kwait, came to our shop and provided a clinic today.  Steve went through the mountain, road and triathlon line of bikes.  There were a couple highlights of the presentation.  One was the tear down of the Lefty fork.  We removed the cartridge and did a mock servicing of it.  It was surprising to me how simple the fork was to service in the field.   The description of the internals is that it is a “square peg in a square hole”.  When we removed the boot from the lower end of the shock the four flat sides or bearing races were exposed.  The Lefty fork is so stiff because there are four flat sides and 22 needle bearings between the inner square “peg” and the outer square “hole”.

The other highlight was weighing Steve’s Flash Carbon hardtail mountain bike at 18lbs!  You can set yours up even lighter at Bike Religion!!

Complete bike with pedals

Close-up of scale