Free Competition to Win a Felt Nine Comp
This is a free mountain bike giveaway from Men’s Fitness Magazine win a Felt bike and other prizes.
The Prize consists of:
Felt Nine Comp 2012 mountain bike – Great spec rrp: £999
dhb Pace Roubaix Padded bib tights
dhb C1.0 cycling shoe
dhb Core S cycling jersey
dhb Signal Jacket
Are you looking for Christmas gifts for someone who is into cycling or mountain biking?
These Christmas gift ideas for cyclists should make your Christmas shopping easier.
If money is no object and you really love the person you are buying for why not get them a new bike? If anyone wants to buy me a bike for christmas I’d really like a Rock Lobster 
If you don’t want to spend quite that much cash here is some great ideas that any cyclist friend or family member would love for christmas.
Tools
A multi tool – A muti purpose bike tool is a compact tool that will carry everything you need to fix your bike in an emergency. A good quality tool will have: 2, 2.5, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 & 10mm Allen key wrenches, box wrenches, mini pedal wrench, Phillips & flat screwdrivers, universal chaintool, spoke wrenches, tyre levers (x2), torx wrench for disc brakes. Plus knives etc.
This Topeak Mini 18 Function Tool would make a great gift and be useful for many years.
You can get 20% off tools, toolkits, workstands, oils and lubes right now, maybe buy a christmas present for yourself or your bike. Just use this link and discount code ‘UK20′ at the checkout.
Glasses
Cycling glasses are a must have especially at this time of year, getting a bit of soggy grit in your eye is extremely painful and dangerous. If possible try and get glasses with interchangeable lenses a clear lens gives year round protection anytime of the day, a persimmon yellow lens gives low level light enhancement and a tinted lense helps protect from the sun aswell as foreign objects. have a look at these ones here.
Clothing
The correct clothing is another thing every cyclist needs at this time of year. Here is another discount code for you, buy any 3 Sealskinz items and pay for only 2. Sealskinz make specialist cycling products to keep you warm and dry. To get 3 great winter cycling gifts for the price of 2 click here and use the code ’3FOR2′.
I hope that’s give you some gift ideas when you come to buy for the cyclists, if you need anymore Click Here.
Here’s an offer that will really help your training and improve your cycling performance!
The correct nutrition can help improve your focus, strength, recovery and performance.
When you cycle or do any kind of strenuous exercise, good nutrition is needed by your body to replace glycogen (glycogen is stored in your muscles and used as fuel), vitamins, minerals and essential salts after training. Good nutrition will also help repair damaged muscle fibres and boost your immune health.
Maxifuel sell a range of products to help you train harder, become fitter, stronger and quicker. Buy any maxifuel products and get a free workout mix by sports music experts AudioFuel.
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Cannondale is one of the oldest and most respected mountain bike manufacturers in the world, Cannondale was founded 1971 by Joe Montgomery. Cannondale pioneered the use of carbon fibre for bike frames. Today Cannondale is owned by Dorel Industries, a Canadian company. Dorel also owns other cycle companies such as Schwinn and Mongoose.
Reviewed below is the Cannondale Trail SL 1 from the Cannondale 2012 mountain bike range.
Much of the Cannondale range for 2012 offers excellent value and good spec bikes for their price points, a good example of this value is the Cannondale Trail SL 1.
Cannondale Trail SL 1 Review
The SL1 previuosly featured the “fatty” or “headshok” suspension fork, this year they have gone with the Rockshox Recon forks. The frame’s 1.5in head tube is ready to accommodate the cannondale lefty suspension fork should you wish to upgrade.
Cannondale Trail SL 1 Spec
Frame: Trail SL, Optimized 6061 alloy, SAVE, 1.5″ headtube
Fork: RockShox Recon Silver TK, 100mm, Solo Air, lockout, rebound, 1.5″
Chainset: FSA COMET, 42/32/24
Cassette: SHIMANO HG-62, 11-36, 10-SPEED
Bottom Bracket: FSA MEGAEXO
Chain: KMC X10, 10-SPEED
Front Hub: Formula DC20
Rear Hub: Shimano M475
Front Derailleur: SHIMANO DEORE, 34.9 CLAMP
Rear Derailleur: SHIMANO XT
Front Brake: AVID ELIXIR 3 HYDRAULIC DISC, 160/160MM
Rear Brake: AVID ELIXIR 3 HYDRAULIC DISC, 160/160MM
Brake Levers: AVID ELIXIR 3 HYDRAULIC DISC
Pedals: Wellgo Platform
Handlebars: Cannondale C3 riser, 680×20 mm, 6061 alloy
Stem: Cannondale C4, 1.5″, 31.8, 7 degree
Headset: Tange Custom 1.5″
Grips: Cannondale alloy locking grips w/closed end
Saddle: Cannondale Stage 2
Seatpost: Cannondale C3, 31.6 x 350 mm (S, M) 400 mm (L,X,J)
Rims: Maddux DC3.0, double wall w/eyelet, 28 hole front, 32 hole rear
Front Tyre: Schwalbe Rapid Rob, 2.1″
Rear Tyre: Schwalbe Rapid Rob, 2.1″
Shifters: SHIMANO DEORE
The bike comes in a choice of white or grey colours
Good Value for £1000
To buy the Cannondale SL1 click here
A healthy diet plan can help cyclists speed up their rate of recovery (so you feel less sore after a heavy session in the saddle), decrease your risk of injury or illness and of course eating properly will also improve your perfomance on the bike.
Protein
Cycling is a sport that requires not only endurance and stamina but also explosive power, explosive power comes from muscle. In order to build muscle you need to train hard and consume protein, protein is most abundant in meat – chicken breast, steak, nuts can also be a good source of protein. If you only go cycling at weekends a healthy diet will probably be adequate to support your health and cycling gains, if you cycle more frequently and do additional exercise such as weight training, you probably want to consider some form of protein supplementation.
If your cycling long distances over the whole day your body will not only burn fat and carbohydrate, it will also burn muscle and protein so it is important to make sure you do not just consume carbs but also protein through out the day. You could look to a protein drink, the body utilises protein in different ways. Whey protein can be absorbed very quickly by the body where as other proteins can take longer for your body to utilise, choose a protein drink that offers both slow and fast release protein.
Vitamins
When you do any form of exercise your body produces free radicals, free radicals can be harmful to cells with in your body. To counteract the effect of free radicals you should ensure you consume antioxidants. Antioxidants are molecules which can safely interact with free radicals.
Powerful antioxidents include vitamin E, beta-carotene, and vitamin C. Antioxidants can also help prevent cancer and heart disease.