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Specialized 2012 bike sale - starts today!

The winter 2012 Specialized bike sale is now on. Whether you are looking for an Allez, Hardrock, Rockhopper, Stumpjumper, Big Hit, Enduro, Roubaix, Sirrus or Camber we now have a discount on your bike, but hurry: it won’t be around for long!

Head on over to our site for and check out all the 2012 Specialized sale bikes on offer. Our winter clearance sale is kicking off on the same day so we'll have plenty of dirt cheap non-Specialized kit available too.

Happy New Year everyone!

 

Top 5 posts

Well it’s that time of year, mistletoe and wine, Christmas parties and hangovers, lights, snow (here’s hoping) and a bit too much food. It’s been a fairly good year – a cold winter followed another crappy summer, an economic downturn and the usual ups and downs. But at the end of it all we are still spinning the wheels as much as ever – if not more, with a lot of people switching from cars to save the pennies.

We just wanted to say thanks to everyone for reading our blog this year – and to all our highly valued customers… and also to the staff who help with the input into this blog and pick up on my spelling mistakes – sorry about those too.

Next year we have lots of plans in the pipeline at Tredz towers – our youtube video channel is going to see a lot more videos and loads more informative content for you, the blog is moving over to a new system to make it look better and more readable for you and we will be doing loads more testing. We are really hoping to up our game, and we’d like to welcome any feedback or suggestions from you.

We will also have lots of competitions so keep an eye on Tredz Talk and our facebook and twitter pages for more info.

 

Here are a few of our most popular posts from 2011:

 

Specialized 2012 mountain bikes

Specialized bikes always get a fair amount of attention and this year’s introduction to the 2012 range went down pretty well.

Giant Bikes 2012

Giant aren’t usually far behind Specialized although they usually let the bikes do the talking so the marketing isn’t as shouty, but still of high interest.

Specialized Road

Unsurprisingly, Specialized’s road bikes comes in at third – a great 2012 range and well deserved rank of 3. 

Winter cycling gloves

It’s clear that lots of people out there have cold hands. Our best winter gloves post was 4^th most popular this year, and it’s only been online a few weeks.

Winter training tips

Our Elite Athlete Dave gave us some winter training tips and looks like some of you must have been interested. IT’s great advice – check it out if you missed it. 

 

Best BMX bikes for Christmas

Whether you’re shredding at the local pipe or cruising the streets, a BMX is THE bike to do it on. The BMX world is as much a fashion scene as it is a sport and has been since the 80’s. This year, the main colours that seem to be en vogue are matt black and blue, but according to our resident BMX rider – black is the colour to be seen on for 2011/12.

If you are looking for BMX or you are buying one for someone lucky enough to be having one as a present, here’s five we highly recommend you take a look at:

Diamond Back Poison 269.99 £179.99 save 33%


If you are looking for value for money and durability, look no further.  Hi tensile steel construction means this BMX will take the bad landings and fat tyres will stop you feeling the impact. The Poison comes with Tektro U brakes so you can cruse the streets and stop with confidence.

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Mongoose Logo £199.99 £189.99

Amongst the best-selling BMX’s of last year. If you want one of these, get it while you still can! The Logo is the perfect bike for the up and coming rider and features a hi tensile frame and fork and Odyssey Baton grips.

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We the people justice £399.99

Great for the advancing rider, the justice will do just that to your riding. Available in black and black with red cranks and bars, the Justice looks mint which ever you get. The justice is finished with We The People’s SALT headset, stem ,tubular cranks and more.  

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Felt Volt £250


Felt make some great bikes and their BMX’s aren’t an exception. Available in Blue and Black the Volt has fat tyres and is made of Cr-mo. He Vault also come complete with a pair of stunt pegs so you grind it as soon as you are ready to ride.

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Specialized P20 £450


The P20 is a full-on, fully featured BMX from one of the oldest and most experienced bike manufactures in the world.  Cr-Mo frame and forks , 21” top tube  and integrated headset  as well as removable brakes make the P20 a top choice for 2012.