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Joolze Dymond is a name synonymous with the British racing scene. Her photographs are the record for many of the participants in all sorts of disciplines. So what better way to relive 2009 than through her favourite pictures.
Whether you raced or not in 2009, her favourite shots are either the perfect way to relive the year or the ideal kick in behind to get involved in the new year.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all our readers and customers. We look forward to seeing you all back in 2010!
As a 'Thank you' Tredz are offering an extra 5% discount on top of your purchases between Christmas and the New Year (ending midnight the 3rd to be exact) what better way to get value for your Christmas money!
Starting on Christmas Day, enter: GOINGCRACKERS09 in your basket on Tredz and the discount will be applied*.
(*Excluding Specialized products)
Despite its massive increase in popularity, cycling still often suffers from an image problem; well we don’t have any suggestions of how to remedy this and we’re pretty sure things like this aren’t going to help; ah well.
The much hyped, long awaited, fantastically desirable and insanely ‘credit crunch’ busting Sram XX cassette is finally in stock and available for somebody outside of the drooling and over-indulged cycling press to get their hands on.
What can we say that hasn’t already been said about this cassette; not a lot really.
A staggering 9 hours of machining time goes into producing what is probably the greatest piece of CNC machining ever seen on a bicycle; close on £300 worth of engineering prowess (less on Tredz!!!!).
And where will this work of art reside; in pride of place, in a glass cabinet? No, this is cycling, so it will be covered in grease, oil and mud and slowly worn away by thousands of miles of enthusiastic pedalling.
But that’s the point, it’s not a piece of art, it’s the gears for a bicycle, it just happens to be the best available. Hey, at least it’ll be on display for all to see and most to not notice (except by us real geeks!): if you bought a Ferrari nobody would ever get to see how meticulously crafted the gearbox was!!
The 2010 Lapierre Spicy 916 has just arrived as the first of the 'top end' Lapierres, in the trickle of available 2010 range bikes. It's caused an unheard-of (in our 'nothing gets to us' bike-die-hards team) reaction of mass excitement from pretty much everyone!
The Spicy boasts the highest spec of the range (sram X.0 rear mech, Fox 36 Talas 160mm forks, truvative noir 3.3 crankset to list but a few parts) and weighing only 12.5kg makes it one of the lightest all-mountain bikes on the market.
Full Spec:
Team Sky are launching officially on 4th January, they've released a video (minimalist being the best description) and a few images of their new Pinarello Dogma 60.1 team bike.
The aim of the team is to create a British Tour de France winner by 2014. With involvement of British Olympic Champions such as Bradley Wiggins and Geraint Thomas as well as this year's Tour of Britain winner Edvald Boasson Hagen, this looks rather promising!
It's the BBC Sports Personality of the year tonight.
