TOUR DE FRANCE PROMOTION

If, like us, you will be tuning in to SBS for every stage of this years Tour de France you are sure to catch some great promotions from Avanti and Specialized being advertised during the coverage.

As an Avanti Plus dealer Lifecycle is pleased to be supporting these great promotions with the sale bikes already arriving in store.

Avanti Carbonio 1.0 and Avanti Carbonio 2.0

The Avanti Carbonio road bikes are arguably the best value carbon fiber bikes on the market today. For the 2007 Tour we are able to offer either the Carbonio 1.0 or 2.0 with a free Avanti Mag 500 home trainer and a free Specialized Decibel helmet.

In the colder months a home trainer is the perfect tool to make sure you don't loose any of the fitness you built up over the summer. Easy to set up in front of your television you can get a great workout while watching Tour highlights. Valued at $269.

You are probably already familiar with the Specialized Decibel helmet. The choice for pro teams such as Gerolsteiner, Predictor Loto, Milram and many more you will be seeing lots of this lid in the 2007 Tour. Valued at $229.

Avanti Giro

For those of you who want quality 105 running gear at a great price check out the legendary Avanti Giro. With carbon fork and carbon back end this is a great bike for the racer and coffee shop rider alike.

During the 2007 Tour we are able to offer this great bike with the Avanti Mag 500 home trainer normally valued at $269. Simply bolt your new Giro in and you can clockmup all your training miles without leaving the house.

EXCLUSIVE LIFECYCLE BONUS PROMO

Not only are we running great promotions on Avanti bikes Lifecycle is also pleased to offer to exclusive promtions on Team Quickstep and Gerolsteiner products.

Quickstep Promo

As a special promotion if you buy any Specialized Tarmac or Roubaix bike in Team Quickstep colours or Specialized Tarmac Frame Kit in Palo Bettini colours from now until the end of July you will receive a special Quickstep team pack for free. It is the next best thing to being sponsored.

Pack includes:

1x Set BBB glasses, 1 x Lazer Helmet, 1x Quickstep Team Jersey

Gerolsteiner Promo

Team Gerolsteiner also ride on the fantastic Tarmac and Roubaix SL road bikes from Specialized. For the duration of the 2007 Tour de France buy any Specialized Tarmac bicycle in Team Gerolsteiner colours and receive a free Decibel helmet in team Gerolsteiner colours and a free set of Shimano R540 pedals.

*These great team offers are exclusive to Lifecycle for the duration of the Tour de France only. These offers are only available while stocks. If team colour pedals sell our Lifecycle will substitute black or silver R540 pedals.

It is stocktake time and we are keen to talk deals on 2007 models.

Find out more on our specials page. 

Great news from Canada with "ourJosie" taking out the 4th stage of the inaugural Tour de Prince Edward Island. Featuring a big field of international pro women racers including Italians, Russians, Swiss etc this race is new to the calender, designed to follow the Montreal World Cup race held the week before. Josie had been showing great form earlier in the race taking a top ten in the time trial stage finishing a few seconds ahead of Sarah Carrigan, Olympic champion.

 In the 4th stage after numerous attacks Josie bridged the gap to one of the Russian national team members and outkicked her in the finishing sprint to take out her first international road race victory. At the end of the Tour Josie finished 7th overall which is a great result and a great way to finish the first 1/2 of the year. Josie returns to Brisbane this week for some well earned R&R before heading back for the rest of the season including the Thüringen-Rundfahrt in Germany and world championships in Stuggart at the end of September.

A big weekend of riding this holiday weekend starting with the Mt O'Reilly Challenge. Around 20 or so hopefuls turned up on a chilly morning but as usual the mountain was the big winner with only four exhausted riders making it to the top without a rest stop. However two of the four were newcomers to the Roll of Honour. Liam McCarthy conquered the mount for the first time and led the quartet to the top. He was closely followed by Simon Carlyle and other Honour Roll newcomer, Kevin Butterworth, and not so closely by oldtimer Blair Stockwell, who was particularly distressed at the top. Maybe he will need to use a bit lower gearing to alleviate the ravages of time and diminished riding!

All those who had a go were suitably challenged and all vowed to get a bit further next time. Everyone agreed that photos don't do justice to the 26% climb and a lot of exclamations that cant be repeated were heard as Mt O'Reilly came into view. If you want to try it we will be going again around September so keep watching this site.

After a rest day for some on Sunday we regathered for the Winter Warmer warmup ride.

Some good news for Ian May who had a night with little sleep as he heard the news from the UK that he had become a grandfather. Congratulations! Again around 20 riders left the shop on a glorious morning to ride out through Samford to Mt Mee and return.

The first challenge was the Samford range and most stayed with the leaders. Then down to Samford and heading for Dayboro. A short detour over the hill named the "crucifix" for some of the keen climbers being the only diversion. Soon enough we were on the slopes of Mt Mee and immediately Jason Moore was keen to see if dropping 10kg in the last few weeks was going to help his time. It must have help[ed as he knocke 3min off his previous best……well done Jason! Before long the bunch was strung out like Browns cows as everyone settled into the 6km slog to the top. A couple of keen ones went the Ocean View road way and found out it is aptly named as they struggled up some of the 20% sections. It was good to see Simone and Lisa make it to the top as well, putting some of the guys to shame!

After regathering at the top it was the fun part of the ride as the downhill run to the bakery took place. Once again Jason showed his speed downhill and was never challenged. It was a crowded bakery stop as a similar ride by the Uni club turned up around the same time. Still there was plenty for everyone and we were on our way. "Rockin'" Rod Stewart had left a few minutes earlier and took some catching along the straights before Closeburn. Soon enough we were back together and made it back home in various states of tiredness.

It was a good stamina building exercise with everone doing at least 100km for the day. We hope to repeat this on July 1 for anyone wanting a nice group ride.

Check our photo section as lots of new and old photos have been added.