Giving Thanks!

Here at Clemmons Bicycle we would like to give thanks, this Thanksgiving, to our loyal customers. After spending all day Thursday pedalling your bicycle-turkey-spit (see below...haha) and are napping off your tryptophan buzz, swing by to see us Friday and Saturday for some stellar deals! All parts, components and accessories in the store are 15%-off MSRP. All clothing is 15%-off MSRP with select clothing marked down 40%-off! This Friday only, all bikes on the floor will be sold for 10%-25% of retail.

If anything, while you're on your way to wait at lines for all of the other door-buster sales going on this weekend, stop in and say hello. We'd love to see you. Oh, and bring leftovers. Lots of them! Gobble gobble!

Hammer Nutrition & Training Clinic.

We had a great time with Jim from Hammer, last night here at the shop. He came in to speak with us about how to utilize nutrition properly within our training and compeitition diets. We had a great turn out with some of our favorite customers, food and drink, free samples and lots of great conversation!We wanted to thank everyone for stopping in. It was a great time!

An Oldie, But A Goodie.

NINER's Bullet-Proof Carbon Rigid Fork!

If you've been following our blog, lately, you might already know that we are super excited about our amped up support of Niner bikes. Especially with our new Demo Fleet starting to make it's way through our doors. We received this little tid-bit from Niner regarding their rigid carbon fiber mountain bike specific fork...leaving us even more excited about their product.

There is a video streaming about online (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_O9PLorYPA) and it shows Chris Sugai, co-founder of Niner Bikes beating the sin out of their carbon fork with a 16oz ball peen hammer. The point of the hammer-test was to portray how even massive hits taken by the fork wouldn't necessarily result in catastrophic failure. To further their claims, Niner sent the bike to the testing facility where the stringent European mountain bike standards are default measures that have to be met...Niner's testing of the already hammered fork not only met, but surpassed the test!

"Niner forks are tested to the new European standards specifically designed for mountain bike use. To pass these safety standards the fork must undergo a load of 650 Newtons, both pushing and pulling on the dropouts for one hundred thousand cycles. Our hammer fork passed this test easily, so we kept going… and we upped the load. At 750 Newtons, the hammer fork passed another hundred thousand cycles, so we kept at it… and at it… In the end we were not able to get this fork to break until after three hundred thousand cycles! The Niner carbon fork tripled the most stringent bike product safety standard out there, after being beaten with a hammer! We would prefer that you didn’t do this to your fork, but it is nice to know how tough these things really are. "

Pretty friggin' awesome, if you ask me! The Demo frames are just now arriving and we will be building them up in the coming weeks. Be sure to stop by and check out these fabulous pieces of machinery, and as always: thanks for reading!

It's Fat Tire Friday!

Hammer Nutrition | Training & Nutrition Clinic

Come out and join us this Wednesday, Nov 18 to warm up for the 2010 Ride for Courage: Polar Bear Metric Century! Our Hammer Nutrition rep Jim Bertrand, will be here to educate you about Hammer products and usage. This will be a great opportunity for you to learn insightful knowledge on diet, nutrition, training, and other topics of interest for endurance athletes.

Hammer Nutrition Training & Nutrition Clinic Presented By Clemmons Bicycle
Wednesday November 18, 2009 6:30-8:00pm

SATURDAY RIDE | 11.14.2009 | 9:00AM

As some of you may or may not know, Clemmons Bicycle will be holding a weekly weekend road ride every Saturday, this winter. We're kicking off the series this Saturday at 9:00am.

The route for this Saturday 11/14/2009 is available at MapMyRide.com and we hope to get in about 1.5 to 2 hours. You can follow this link to see where we will be heading.

http://www.mapmyride.com/ride/united-states/nc/clemmons/861125795802227875

We invite everyone to come on out and ride with us! Make sure you're prepared for the weather. Right now, weather.com predicts it to be Partly Cloudy with temperatures in the mid-60s. Be sure to stop in to the shop for any and all of your cool weather needs. We've got a great selection of Sugoi and Pearl Izumi product to keep you warm as the weather gets colder.

CLEMMONS BICYCLE SATURDAY WINTER RIDE SERIES 11.14.2009 9:00AM