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2013 Cannondale CAAD8

If you are just riding for fitness or fun, or are actually, an aspiring racer, this Cannondale CAAD8 has super responsive handling, and a ride all day compliance. Heads up Race Geometry is a nice add on for this quick light weight bike.
-The Cannondale CAAD8 shares the same asymmetric chain stays horizontally ovalized top tube,and SAVE vibration-reducing stays.
-This Heads Up Race Geometry on the Cannondale CAAD8 shares the proven race geometry of its more expensive brehthren but with a slightly taller headtube for a more relaxed riding position. Plus, for top comfort, the frame geometry is dialed in and there's a vibration-damping carbon fork to smooth rough pavement.
- Cannondales Aluminum Expertise, has double pass smooth welds, taper button tubes and the refined tubeshapes of the Cannondale CAAD8.
-The Cannondale CAAD8 has a precision-shifting FSA/Shimano 18-speed drivetrain with compact gearing for easier climbing and a nice bar, stem, seatpost and seat from Cannondale.
- Its svelte Cannondale aluminum frame features a teardrop-shaped down tube with a large-diameter, thin-wall profile for the optimum blend of lightness and stiffness for awesome efficiency.
Go out and throw on some Compression Pants and enjoy the ride on this all new 2012 Cannondale CAAD8!!!

Custom Bike Jerseys

Custom Bike Jerseys are a great way to promote your club, organization or even just get some great looking kit a a good price. Our parent company, Podium Cycling designs and manufacturers Custom Bike Jerseys for cycling.

To request a full quote for your team, use the Team Questionnaire. We’ll send you an order form with all of our prices and get working on your design immediately! Depending on your sport or location, we might have sponsorship rates available for your team. Be sure to include any artwork, design notes, and the approximate number of pieces your club is interested in ordering.

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To request a full quote for your team, use the Get a quote page. We’ll send you an order form with all of our prices. Depending on your sport or location, we might have sponsorship rates available for your team.

2013 Amira SL4 Pro Ui2 Mid Compact

2013 Amira SL4 Pro Ui2 Mid Compact

The 2013 Amira SL4 Pro Ui2 Mid Compact is such a sleek bike. This womens 2013 Amira SL4 Pro Ui2
Mid Compact is set up so that you can ride for just the ride or you can be super competitive and get a way
with a win on this great piece of transportation. From the Fact 10r carbon frame to the carbon crankset,
the 2013 Amira SL4 Pro Ui2 Mid Compact gives a fast stiff ride, with ease. Funny Cycling Jerseys

The handlebars are alloy with a nice aerodynamic drop to keep up with the racer in front of you.

Roval Fusee sl alloy wheelset was introduced in these amira bikes for an all around great performance
ride.

The Fact Carbon crankset has an outstanding weight to strength ratio for great efficiency and strength.
Them 2013 Amira SL4 Pro Ui2 Mid Compact shimano electronic ultegra Di2 drivetrain pairs nicely with
the power transfer from the crankset. It is a 10 speed shimano ultegra cassette.

For a nice smooth ride on the 2013 Amira SL4 Pro Ui2 Mid Compact specialized has added the body
geometry gel saddle with hollow Ti rails for optimized power transfer.

2012 Amira SL4 Pro Mid-Compact

So after you just unwrapped your legs from your brand new Podium Legs- Compression Pants, it’s time to jump on your new 2013 Amira SL4 Pro Mid-Compact bike. The new 2013 Amira SL4 Pro Mid-Compact is the new generation starter for women to do a long sprint session with the club or for the pro level crit.
The 2013 Amira SL4 Pro Mid-Compact components consist of the super simple but very up to date Shimano Dura-Ace drivetrain for a smooth shift into gears. And with the specialized pro fact carbon made crankset, with osbb, you will feel the super efficient and consistent outstanding strength to weight ratio.
The Fact 10r carbon make up of the 2013 Amira SL4 Pro Mid-Compact makes this bike ride with a stiff but very fast motion. The Womens performance geometry includes the tapered head tube for the female build.
The lightweight reliability added to the 2013 Amira SL4 Pro Mid-Compact comes from the roval fuse sl allow wheels which creates an aero feature for a great all around performance.
The Alloy handle bar on the 2013 Amira SL4 Pro Mid-Compact makes it way easier for women riding it by its stiffness and strength at a lightweight fee into the headset onto the monocoque forks that have been designed for strength and precision steering.
If you’re looking to drive a speedy bmw with great ability to be comfortable, but in a bike; Then the 2013 Amira SL4 Pro Mid-Compact is the right bike for you.

2013 SPECIALIZED S WORKS AMIRA SLR MID COMPACT

SPECIALIZED S WORKS AMIRA SLR MID COMPACT

The 2013 Specialized S works amira compact bike is now one of the lightest and fastest womens cycle out there now. With its all new FACT 11r carbon frame, it will get you anywhere at the pace you desire. The strength comes from the monocoque fork with a 1 1/8” to 1 3/8” headset. This adds to the highest precision steering that you will ever feel with specialized as well as any other bike.
The 2013 specialized s works amira mid compact uses the latest women's performance geometry, for an all day ride with the best comfort if your going for a test run or a 25k race. You'll look like a pro even when wearing one of these Funny cycling jerseys

The new wheel set up is insane. For the specialized s works amira mid compact, they have added the roval fusee slx wheelset for durability and the highest performance you will get with any bike.
The crankset for the specialized s works amira mid compact is incredibly lightweight and made out of the SL OSBB FACT carbon fiber. Efficiency isnt the word to describe how well this adds to the specialized s works amira mid compact. It is so consistent that they paired it with the SRAM Red drivetrain for Pro tour performance.
A ride on the new specialized s works amira mid compact is worth the price and you wont even remember how much you payed for it after a test run.

If you are interested in kicking off the year right, you should invest in some compression pants along with a new bike.

Podium Legs Compression Pants Review

Podium Legs Compression Pants Review

Full Disclosure: The parent company of Share The Damn Road also owns Podium Legs Air Compression Pants. The brand Podium also makes some great Cycling Jerseys that you can find in that link.

On to the review. Podium legs will make your legs feel better, there is no question about that. Youll be able to get extra days of train in each month and attack with confidence at the end of your race when everyone’s legs are fried. Everyone but yours, that is.

How they work: There are four chambers that each fill up with air. You can either go sequentially or all at once. There is an electric pump, pants that fill up with air and hoses that connect the two. The pump has four settings four power and several settings for precision compression placement.

Point setting
With precision accuracy, podium legs can target a specific muscle group. If you have one particular part of your legs that is bothering you, this is what you’ll be able to do.

Sequential setting:
This setting will start at the foot, compress, move to the calf, compress and go all the way up to your thigh. This is the best “general leg recover” setting as it.

Four chamber Setting
This setting bombards both of your entire legs with pressure. If you have limited time between events, this is going to be your go-to setting. You’ll get the most recovery in the shortest amount of time.

Variable setting
As random as it gets – first your foot, then quad, then calf. Blood will be push around in the most variable way such that no one muscle group is worked on too much.

2013 Specialized Tarmac SL4

With the hype that surrounded the Specialized Venge as it was their first foray into the aero road bicycle market, it is easy to overlook specialized new Road Race Bike. While the Tarmac was built for stage wins in the Alps, the Specialized Venge was built for muscle bound athletes riding fifth wheel in a leadout train.

So now begins the speculation. The 2013 Specialized Tarmac SL4 will be a beast. You’re going to see Fabian Cancellera on it in the Paris Roubaix and it will be epic. With the Cannondale Evo X being the front runner on light weight road bikes, Specialized is going to have to come out with a ligher, faster frame if they’re going to contend with the other big names. Expect to see another one piece chain stay and bottom bracket to maintain stiffness and reduce weight., internal cable routing for aerodynamics, and carbon fiber dropouts.

What will specialize have for us for the 2013 Specialized Tarmac SL4? Only time will tell.

2010 Share The Damn Road Evolution Cycling Jerseys

Feels like forever since I've updated this blog. I suppose that could be construed as good or bad. Good in the sense that at Share The Damn Road we've been insanely busy. Between updates to the website, dealing with suppliers, handling customer service, designing new products, marketing, Phil's racing all over the country, most recently the Tour of Utah.

Anywho, in recent history, we've been getting an awesome response to our evolution cycling jersey.

The Evolution Cycling Jersey is currently only available grey, if you want it in any other color, simply go to our custom jersey page, order a single custom and state in the comment box that you want the Evolution Jersey and the color you'd like. Shoot me an email at Jon@sharethedamnroad.com if you want a coupon for this particular purchase.

Cyclists Raise Money To Clean Up The Gulf

Cyclists Raise Money To Clean Up The Gulf

The “Get out the Grease” campaign departs this August and tours from San Francisco to Vanvoiver to help raise money to clean up BP’s little mess in the gulf.

Two stepsisters, Daun and Lisa know eachother for 20 years. They are both teachers and love cycling!

If you want to help them help clean up the oil spill, you can check out their fundraising page here . Also, if you want learn a little bit more about where exactly their money is going, you can check out their blog

Ask a Pro with Phil Gaimon

This is part of the new "Ask a pro" series, with Share the Damn Road founder Phil Gaimon. If you have a question for Phil, email it to phil@sharethedamnroad.com

Question from Zachary in Tennessee: I was wondering if/how you follow the Tour. As a pro, do you feel you have a different perspective from the rest of us?

For the most part, I think that TV coverage doesn't do a great job explaining what you're seeing, so you have to know a lot about bike racing to understand why certain teams are chasing, why some breaks stick and others don't, etc. Depending on where you're watching it, different channels oversimplify the racing to a different extent. I remember seeing Tour coverage on ESPN Sportcenter in the 90s, and the ANCHOR ended the segment with "I just don't see how Lance can finish 80th and still be winning the race". In the same segment, they showed Lance "staying out of trouble", with footage where he was 5 feet to the right of the pack, clearly peeing off the bike on a downhill. Hopefully, you're watching Versus coverage, which does better every year explaining what's going on. I especially like the box at the bottom that tells you the groups on the road and how far back they are from the leaders.
Personally, unless I'm riding the trainer or something, I hate watching a bike race that I want to be in. It's cool to see it, but I eat my heart out every minute. Same thing goes if I DNF a race I'm at: I don't want to stay and watch the finish.
Also, it's hard to watch the known dopers in the races. I see Basso and Vino in there, and yeah, they served their time, but these guys are going to keep getting the job that I want every year, because of their exploits when they were filthy. To me, having those guys in the race means they're now being rewarded for their past, rather than punished. I'm not sure what the answer is, but it makes me question whether I have a future in bike racing as a guy that would never do it.

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