A Fix for Your Addiction...#3

FEEDING YOUR CYCLING ADDICTION NO.3

Our shop is open and the initial feedback has been very encouraging.

WE WILL HAVE OUR OFFICIAL SHOP OPENING ON SATURDAY 30 MAY. Starting at 13h00 at our new shop, 39 Hilton Avenue, Hilton.

The program will be:

·      Short presentation on who we are as well as our demo program

·      Presentation by Sandra Sailor - Sandra is a former Swiss tennis player as well as the former sports psychologist for the Swiss Olympic Sport School. Sandra’s presentation will deal with the mental skills required to excel in sport.

·      Cocktails, drinks and lucky draw.

We are looking forward to seeing you all there…

NIGHT RIDES

Come and join us for our weekly night ride from our shop. We leave at 17h00 and are back at 19h00. Riding the Cedara Forrest at night is magical! If you want to join us, but don’t have a strong enough light, drop us a line and we will see what we can do to get you to experience the magic of night riding.

BIKES

Just to remind you, we stock the following bikes:

• Merida www.merida-bikes.com
• Cannondale www.cannondale.com
•  NINER www.ninerbikes.com
• Ellsworth www.ellsworthbikes.com
•  Titus www.titusti.com
•  Ibis www.ibiscycles.com

We are in the process of sorting out all our demo bikes and have the following bikes for you to test ride at this point in time:

·        Cannondale Rize, size medium

·        NINER EMD, size medium … (EMD stands for Eat My Dust!!)

We will offer you demo’s in IBIS, Ellsworth, Titus and more Niner’s soon.

 

In line with our previous newsletter, herewith then the NINER story.

”The big revolution”… yes, all Niner’s have 29’ wheels …

Niner Bikes was founded by Chris Sugai and Steve Domahidy, two riding buddies who regularly met at their local Wednesday night ride. Niner is the culmination of many conversations over coffee, the handlebars of their bikes and cold beer.

Before we tell you more about the brand and what makes this bike so great, let’s discuss the concept of LARGE WHEELS first. The basic concept is that a larger wheel will remain on top of obstacles rather than riding “in” the terrain. Riding above the terrain gives you more control and stability because you carry your momentum better. Riding rough stuff with smaller wheels often result in a start-stop action. With big wheels you just role through everything. The larger wheel also increases the centrifugal forces which improves stability even further. Then another huge plus is that the larger wheel increases the amount of tire contact to the ground improving traction greatly.

Niner also has a patented suspension design the call Constantly Varying Arc, or CVA™. It’s unique to Niner, designed in house, and works very differently from other full suspension bikes on the market. CVA™ works very differently to isolate pedalling forces and remain fully active under all conditions. In order to isolate pedaling forces in a broader range of gearing choices the CVA’s™ ‘instant center’ location is in front of the drive train, in a more general location. In other words, when a rider cranks on the pedals, the chain is trying to pull the lower link down and away from the bottom bracket and the upper link in its regular rotational path. Since the rear triangle is one piece, the result of these opposing forces cancels each other out, leaving the only outlet for chain torque being rotation of the rear wheel, where it’s most wanted. In addition, since the wheel path of the CVA™ suspension is at its most rearward position at sag (between 25-30%), the suspension doesn’t have to overcome chain torque in order to be fully active. This dramatically increases small bump compliance even when hammering on the pedals.

We hope this gives you some understanding of CVA™, but the best test is to go out and ride a Niner full suspension bike, and see for yourself. CVA™ might be a marketing acronym, but the suspension design is much more than just marketing hype. Give it a try; see for yourself… we will have a Niner JETT demo for you to try very soon.

Just a reminder … WHEN YOU BUY A NINER FROM US, WE WILL NOT CHARGE YOU FOR LABOUR FOR AS LONG  AS YOU HAVE THE BIKE!

At WSQUARED we are committed to you like you have never been committed to before. If you buy a custom built bike from us, you will never pay labour for any work we do in our workshop on your beauty again … (This offer excludes Merida and Cannondale).

ARE YOU READY!

The planning for the Life in Motion 5 hour MTB Enduro is well on the way. It is happening on Sunday 21 June at Bushview Bike Park close to Lynnfield Park. Racing will start at 8h30 and go through to 13h30. The track is an awesome 7 km loop of mostly sublime single track. You can race as individual, teams of 2 or teams of 3 riders. Teams will take part in a relay manner and the individual/team that has completed the most laps after 5 hours will be deemed the winner. See www.lifeinmotion.co.za for more details and the entry form.

 

WSQUARED CLEARWATER EXPERIENCE: 14/15 JUNE. PLEASE TAKE NOTE OF THIS ONE AS WE NEED A RESPONSE ASAP ….On 14 June is the Sardine Classic at Port Edward … and the Monday and Tuesday are holidays as well ...  Join us for the Sardine Classic on the Sunday, we stay over at Port Edward Sunday evening and then Jan Abbott (Clearwater Trails) will take us on his new unbelievable trail on the other side of the Umtamvuma Gorge … about 40 km and the closest thing we have to Moab!

If you have not been to Clearwater before … this is arguably one of the best MTB rides in SA!! Jan has handcrafted exquisite single track!!

We have had quite a couple of responses after the last newsletter … there are still some accommodation available … so please let us know if you are keen to join us for a truly amazing MTB experience. Please drop us an e-mail to info@w2cycling.co.za. We have reserved the whole Clearwater camp for the Sunday evening and need to confirm to the good people at Clearwater if we are going to take all the accommodation.

See you at our official shop opening 30 May!!

Johann & Gordon