Congrats NICK!

Nick Mosites has successfully sandbagged his way to a first place finish in the beginner class at Mo'raine and a 3rd place beginner overall at the month of mud series this year!!!!

Hot damn!

I would also like to mention, though the month of mud is over, riding your bike in 2007 is not! TRM Cycles has a bunch o winter gear to keep your digits warm and movin'. We have moved to winter hours 11-7 Monday through Friday, 10 - 6 Saturday and 12-4 on steeler sundays!

ESCAPE FROM JOKI MOUNTAIN (OFFICIAL BLOG POST!!!#@!!!)

Joki mountain has been talked about, had it's layout altered, and its overall plan changed multiple times up untill the day of the event. Since this is the official blog post (!!!#@!!!) I will stick to the facts.

Course Description: 3/8ths Rolling grass hills with 2 sets of barriers and a run/ride up. 5/8ths Tehcnical single and double track with a monster climb/walk up.

Ride Time: 1.5 Hours

Weather: Soupie asked for rain, Soupie Got Rain, and it was glorious.

Most laps in shortest time wins.


Course Details: Mass start along a flat. Tight turn to barriers, Short up hill to second set of barriers and about 3 mintues of off camber grass double track. Once you pull out of the grass it is up and over the goat back. Those with mountain gearing rode the hill, those with cross gearing ran up it. The opposite side of the goat back was FAST with a divot to throw those not prepared from their steads! From their you enter the single track. It twisted and turned and was greasy from the fresh rain. In the single track was a rutted double dip of a downhill. TC Rauch did not fair well on this downhill as well as many others. The Single track was medium difficulty on a mountain bike and tough for a cross bike. After a mixture of Rutted Double track, their was a run up that barely had a line. Ferns overlapped the trail and slick rocks jeopardized traction. Outside that set of single track was the Slag Ridge Trail. On the pre-lap it was visually breath taking but in the actual race in was really starting to blur out. The end of this ride took racers through a pine forrest to THE CLIMB With race legs, this thing was a monster. A long walk with your bike.


At the top of this hill was the start line, racers returned to the barriers and off camber grass. This completes one lap.




RESULTS:

1 Corey Lev - Team Warehouse (usa)
2 Nick Mosites - Team Warehouse (usa)
3 GW Neal - Team Warehouse (Wash)
4 Rick Joki - Psychos 88 (usa)
5 Sam Kaufman - Psychos 88 (Isr)

Women's
Laura Robinson Henninger - Spouse Racing (usa)

It was Great Race for all who survived.
We'll See you all next year!

Transfered to other Concept Stores

I thought I was being called up to the big leagues when John Burke told me it was time to expand my horizons and become "wildly successful". So I packed my bags caught a plane, and did a tour of the Trek concept stores in Europe. My first stop was at the Trek of Macedonia store. Oddly enough, their clientel consisted mostly of downhillers and bmx guys. Their manager Josh Boxxeropolous demonstrates the necessity of bicycles having more travel than JFK on thanksgiving. Everytime someone asked me for detangler cables they kept saying YEE-ROW. To think we have been calling it something different this whole time. At the end of our shift we ate pine nuts and figs, drank wine, and admired the discontinued Fat Possum and King Fisher.


After an overnight train ride, I arrived at Trek of Oslo. Randi Petorsen and I worked on wheels as he showed me the trick to his TOTAALINEN spoke lacing pattern. I really don't have much to say about working at this shop. Alot of commuters, but I only worked for 5 hours, got free healthcare for a day, and drank beer on the clock. *shrug*

My final Shop stop was at the Trek of Glasgow. Oh so dismal. Rainy conditions allowed this store to function only on rain pants and Trek Portlands. There was a relatively diverse trials section, but there is no way in heck that thing is bringing in any revenue. My Magura rim brake skills were tested and after a night at the pubs I stayed in the basement of a Squat. The mildew was pretty rough to say the least. The 6 hour overnight flight had enough artificial air to force the ergonomic european style back out of my life.

Bike Shop News August!

Holy crap!


NEW!


WTB Demo Saddle Program. I have got a PILE of WTB saddles here for yinz to try on yer peddle-cycles. By simply leaving a deposit, you can ride a saddle through the mud, rain, snow, tidal wave, etc. and return it.

You say, "Soupie, TRM's saddle collection usually has a 30 day comfort garauntee? Why demo saddles?" I reply that this is WTB's program, and if you are dumping 60+ bones on a great high end saddle the WTB's are worth the test ride!


In other news, Rick (the professor, the wizard, etc.)is leaving on vacation and the infamous Jordan (Gordan, Gordo) will be covering this week. There is coverage, but on more extensive repairs, please expect delays.


Rick also got repped (repped hard!!!!) on the seven springs website, feast your eyes on an image from 7 years ago!!!!!

August is HOT HOT HOT

Riding in august gets a bit tedious, and it is hard to hydrate when the liter of water you just drank is in your t shirt. I have felt like my brake pads have been rubbing the past 6 rides. It is just hard to breath when the air is this thick and yellow.



Shop Updates:

Bontrager brakes are in. H0ly Sh1t!!!!


Work orders are down to a week, if you are going on vacation, get them here sooner rather than later.

New Serfas multi tools are in, and they are pretty slick for 15 bucks. Knife with locking blade included.

Sam is riding a century with Dave Kraft in Virginia today so the sunday group ride for the 5th (Tomorrow) is cancelled. Sorry folks. Thursday night rides have still been bumpin', get on one of these rides before the season is over.

We have a bunch of bikes on sale at deeeeeeep discounts. (Road, mountain, aluminum, carbon, full suspension, titanium, disc brakes!!!!)





Playlist:

Danzig 2 Lucifuge
Bob Dylan - Times they are a changin
Jeff Buckley
The Smiths - Singles.

Bontrager Speed Limit Road Brakeset

Campy Record Skeleton 279g $409.99
FSA SLK Brakes 290g $199.99
Sram Force 280g $250.00
Dura Ace Brakes 310g $300.00



Bontrager Speed Limit Road Brakeset 270g $199.99

-Lightweight forged alloy construction keeps brakeset weight down.
-Innovative poweramp linkage provides dual-pivot stopping power in a single pivot design.

-wide cross sextion arms give maximum stiffness and power for a responsive brake feel.

-Backed by a Five Year Warranty

PRO EFFING LOGUE!!!!

The "F" standing for france.

But wait Soupie, the Prologue starts in Britain!

Yes it does, my inner monologue, yes it does.

It seems that this "bike race" thing is being covered on "versus" tv, which is a bummer because i signed up for OLN again.....

I lied, i don't have a TV.

But seriously folks, July is here, the tour is here, lance armstrong is not here, basso bailed, and hopefully no more bags of blood with pet names on them show up anytime soon.

Either way, swing down to the shop and talk bikes with us, i will use my cyclingnews.com cheat sheet to feign interest in the "tour of france" everyone is so excited about. All sandwhiches at lunch will be eaten with Credit Mayonaise.


....

Get it? Like lyonaise, the bank that sponsors the tour. Get it?


......

Rut Row

Just a reminder, we are at atleast a week/10 days on repairs. ATLEAST. Thank you for your patience. It's june in a bike shop, baby!

Super Sale/Tour mania/Good deals on accessories is coming up in July. HOLY CRAP!!!

Check your mail for mailers n'at.

Stolen from an email a year ago.

Where are you Steve Feinstein

Are you in italy?

Thursday Night Group Ride

Last night's group ride turned out roughly 15 people, trails were super fast with puddles to splash through, 3 paragons, 2 rigs, Adam's Waltworks, Bianchi Cross concept, making this one of the twentyninest group rides we have had yet!

A bunch of d00dz rode demo bikes which Sam brought for everyone in his van, The Gypsy, named after Mr. Paris-Roubaix Himself, Roger De Vlaeminck. Sam upped Roger's 4 Paris Roubaix victories by putting FIVE BICYCLES!!! in his van.

This was quickly shown up by a woman driving a van into the parking lot with, I crap you not, a horse in the back! Leland has a photo on his phone, soon to be uploaded.

Ya, the horse came.

*head shake*

Ride with Mayor Luke Ravenstahl on the new lane!

Ride with Mayor Luke Ravenstahl on the new lane!

Join Bike Pittsburgh on Monday, June 18 at 11:00 AM for a kickoff and celebratory ride along the new bike lane and shared lane markings with the Mayor of Pittsburgh, Luke Ravenstahl. We will be meeting at the parklet at Baum Blvd and Liberty Ave at 10:45 AM for a press event and speech by the Mayor. PLEASE RSVP TO info@bike-pgh.org if you plan on riding along. An RSVP is not necessary to ride, we just need to get a rough estimate on how many folks to expect. Don’t forget your helmet!

The ride will end at the Church Brew Works. Although we are not footing the bill, join us for lunch afterwards at one of Pittsburgh’s best restaurants. Pierogie Pizza!!



(Repost from Erok of Bike-PGH!)

Porkers

Jeff "Sammy Haggar" "Red Rocker" Wuertherle came in to the shop today to inform me about some new things going on with Pittsburgh Off Road Cyclists, aka Porc.

Porc is offering a beginner mtb ride in south park at the same time as our Mountain bike ride with Sam Friggin' Kaufman. So in south park, every thursday at 6:00pm there are 2 seperate rides leaving. New to the sport of mountain biking? Check out the beginner ride! It will be at a comfortable pace with no one left behind. Sam's group ride will also not leave anyone behind, however, if you want to hammer, i suggest riding with these guys. Last week, our boy, Jimmy ruffing was putting the hurt on everyone. This week is probably the same.

Trail Conditions from 3:00 pm today : South Park

Tacky, low spots with mud and slick logs and roots.

Rainy Day Bike Shop Poll

Sam and I hold down the fort as Jeffy and Dave Friedman AKA Butters work on their bikes off the clock. As we dust mop, air up tires, and talk about shit we want to buy, Nature called. As I strode gallantly towards the chair, I thought, "Hey, a tire poll would make a good blog post". So here are the Friday staff of TRM's TIRE PICKS!


FAVORITE TIRE POLL!!!!!!!

Friedman: Friedman likes the Maxxis Holy Rollers for BMX. Dave states, "Accept no substitutes".

Jeffers: Jeffers enjoys the Michelin transworlds, he is rocking the 32c version and claims that "there is minimal water splashback". He and I are both fond of the Reflective sidewall.

Soupie: I like the Vittoria Zaffiro 23c wire bead. This is the pabst blue ribbon of tires. The cheapest I will ride, but still palatable. I like to commute on 23c's, this is my tire.

Sam: Sam likes the Vredrstein Tri Comps, the original. "Some of the Stickyest, Gripiest, high pressure tires out there, Super sticky! Super Sticky!" This is Sam Kaufman's most winningest tire.

Uhh....Yeah.

That's All Folks!

We are at the point where we can no longer gaurantee work done for the MS-150 Escape to the Lake. We apologize, however, it is in 3 days. Consider yourself warned!

Perhaps get friendly with Lennard Zinn , the gentle giant.

Maglia Rosa

So Di Luca may be in the Maglia rosa, but aparently TRM is too, not only do we have a super swanky Bianchi Wool Maglia Rosa Jersey in stock but if you drive by you will notice that the outside of TRM is donning the Pink Jersey. WASSSSUP!

Well, I am not 100% sure that the entire store will be pink, but there are a couple of d00ds outside (presumably painters) who are painting trim and ledges pink.


Pretty in Pink

MS 150

Its a comin' people, itsa comin'.


We have already started to see a few customers bring in their bikes for the event.

TAKE NOTE!!! These prepared individuals will recieve their bike in time for the event because of propper planning. TRM Cycles will do everything in its power to quickly turn around repairs for the MS 150, however, we are quickly approaching the point where if parts need to be ordered you are S.O.L. or S. out of luck. Please prepare accordingly. I type this and look up at the 13 MS 150 plaques presented to TRM. Please, people, help me help you. Get yer bikes in if they need it...early.

Twenty Niner Revolution

I would like to congratulate? thank? ...whatever.

I am stoked that this d00d Ron picked up a Supa-fly 69er from Trek. He was pretty excited about the way the Maverick Fork felt, he is already a part of the Single Speed Nation so no questions there, and is looking forward to hopping some thick logs on his new horse.

So we are one less bike, but I am still comfortable in saying that TRM Cycles is the Twentyninest (tm) Shop in the South Hills.

If anyone has any good ideas on the "Twentyninest" gang sign for us to through up when we say "twentyninest", please send a digital photograph of it to evanr at trek of pgh dot com . I don't want anything lame, Bettini does that thing in the specialized ad, and it sucks. Nothing like that.

Ok, I have tooted my horn and trashed the competition. I guess that is it for today.

Playlist:
Bob Dylan - times they are a changin'
Guns and Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Mashup crap that Sam Kaufman likes....

Tired of Automatic Shifting Lemons? Try a Lime!!

As illustrated in this photo, not only are limes the best looking automatic bike out there, they are also automatically shifting themselves out of the store. We cannot keep them in stock. Order 'em up, and we will get you rolling on one in no time at all.



I would also like to give a shout out to all of the Caffiene Club guys heading to D.C. this week. Have fun and take some pictures. The Mount Lebanon Cycling and Caffiene Club has been around since 1988 and has been mostly recognized as "Old guys wearing tight pants". To Horst, Rocky, Bod, Dave, Nick Rossi (not riding his Masi), and anyone that I am missing, have a good time.

Bike to work week!

So far,

Soupie: 1 day

Adam: 1 day

Revolution Ron Alloway: 1 day (i don't know if he biked to work parsay, but he rode)

What are you guys doin?

Sam Friggin' KAUFMAN

Is leading two group rides out of TRM Cycles. For those interested in carving through the lush mid atlantic forrest that is south park, at a conversational pace, Sam will lead a group mountain bike ride thursdays, meeting at the ICE SKATING RINK PARKING LOT at 6:00 PM leaving at 6:30 PM. This ride has the possibility of dusk riding, log piles, and drinking beers afterwards.

In addition to this mountain bike ride, Sam will also lead a Road Ride based out of La Bella Bean coffee in bridgeville. Riders will meet at the coffee shop at 9:00am and the ride will leave promptly at 9:30am. The ride has the possibility of two moderate hill climbs, talking to cows, yelling at horses, and drinking coffee before and after. 2-5 hours in duration with Multiple bailout points. This ride is on country roads, with road conditions from good to awful. The pace will be conversational. Country roads and beautiful scenery.

Call for information and directions. 412-343-6885