The New Revolution is Here: 2014 Giant Trance Advanced 1 – 27.5

November 22, 2013

With the benefits of both a 29er and 26er, 27.5 inch wheels have made a big splash in the mountain bike world this year.  After over a decade of smaller builders and a few mass-production brands utilizing the standard, the floodgates were opened in 2014 and 27.5 inch wheels rocketed to the top of the list of mainstream innovations.

One of the brands leading the charge with light, high-performance and affordable 27.5 bikes is Giant.  The 2014 Trance represents the culmination of incredible research and development as well as rider testing under the likes of Adam Craig and Carl Decker.  We have a few of these in the shop (and one for demo!).  Jump past the break to see why we can’t wait to shred this new bike.

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5 inches of suspension and 27.5 wheels make even the gnarliest of trails heavenly.

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Peak Cycles Spotted! Mountain Bike Nationals and UCI BMC World Championships

July 25, 2013
Dillon Turner - riding fast at UCI BMC World Championships in New Zealand!

Dillon Turner – riding fast at UCI BMC World Championships in New Zealand!

Colorado bike races are more popular than ever. The physical challenge of Colorado’s altitude combined with amazing alpine views pair for a cycler’s dream.

What makes it even better?  Cool bikes, new bike parts, and team riders crushing it in local, national, and international mountain bike races.

We’re super proud of our team racers at bikeparts.com.

  • Congrats to PeakCycles BMX Rider Dillon Turner – riding fast at UCI BMC World Championships in New Zealand!
  • High fives to Joshua Murdock and Taylor Shull for impressive showings at the Mountain Bike Nationals in Bear Creek, Pennsylvania!
  • Stellar finish for Stacy Moller at the Leadville Silver Rush 50!

Congrats to all of our racers!  At BikeParts.com, we do all we can to support our competitive and non completive athletes.  And while our racers can tell you, racing takes its toll on themselves as athletes, but also on their bikes. The season is in full swing and most venturing into the shop want to know how to ride faster, ride easier, and what they need to do either get their bike parts in order or keep them well maintained.

What can we learn from our podium finishers?  For starters, they start their races with a clean and lubricated chain.  They make sure to lubricate the moving parts of brakes and derailleurs. Their brake pads are in good shape and tires have the appropriate air pressure.  And, most importantly, after they race, they inspect their bike and replace damaged bike parts.

Get in to the shop to hear about our racers most recent adventures and success stories.  Let’s finish this season strong!

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The Quickest Way To Get Faster? Get a Bike Fit!

May 9, 2013

Leg strength, endurance, and fitness are at the heart of cycling speed, but without a proper bike fit, you are sabotaging your training efforts.  Whether you’re just starting to ride or you’ve been cycling for a long time, consider the benefits of a professional bike fit.  At Bikeparts.com, we know how important a bike fit is.  It is so important that we recently devoted an entire room in our Golden, Colorado Peak Cycles Bike shop just for bike fitting.  But in case you are unaware, fit impacts comfort but also technique which is crucial to preventing overuse injuries.  Your body’s position on the bike affects how you ride. It affects how much power you can efficiently deliver to the pedals. It affects how comfortable you are on the bike.

In a sport based on such a highly repetitive action, like pedaling, the first line of defense against injury is a proper bike fit.  So what is a proper bike fit?  It doesn’t simply consist of setting a saddle height and bar reach. In today’s market, bike brands are designing some top-end rides for us to enjoy, but with these bikes come different geometries.  Many cyclist replacing bikes or bike parts inquire about the following bike components and their role in an overall bike fit:

  • Crank Length
  • Saddle Tilt
  • Saddle Height
  • The Fore-Aft Saddle Position
  • Knee over the pedal axle
  • Handlebar Position
  • Stock frame sizing
  • Cleat positioning

Do you know how these bike components fit in YOUR bike fit?  That would be good to know. In our full comprehensive bicycle fits by George Mullen, every cyclist  benefits from a good bike fit.  

  • Beginners who aren’t familiar with how a bike should fit and feel.
  • Current riders who can’t get comfortable on their current setup or have nagging injuries
  • Competitive cyclists who are looking for marginal gains. There’s no doubt that more power can result from tweaking your bike position.  It is well understood that a good aero fit is the most cost-effective way to speed up your bike split.

With eleven years of fitting experience and over over two-thousand fits, George is has the experience, the tools and the advanced training to handle any fit scenario. Stop by the Peak Cycles bike fitting studio to schedule a fit.  Also, order any bike parts you need from a recent fit online at bikeparts.com.  We offer a  huge selection of road bike parts, mountain bike parts, BMX bike parts and more. If you need it for your bike, then we have it!

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The Pool

July 25, 2011

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Photo Friday

July 22, 2011

This is D. Turner in Southpark racing the #1 10 year old in the country as well as the #1 girl in the country

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Don’t forget to buckle your helmet.

June 21, 2011

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ABA BMX Cornhusker Nationals- Team BPC brings home some hardware

May 5, 2011

Team BPC headed to Kearney, Nebraska to race in the Cornhusker Nationals last weekend. Racing was Friday thru Sunday.

Here are the boys results:

Friday PreRace
Conrad 7th
Dillon 1st
Lander 5th

Saturday:
Conrad 5th
Dillon 1st
Lander DNQ

Sunday (all boys qualify for the mains):
Conrad 8th due to a crash (he is ok)
Dillon 1st
Lander 7th (not bad for turning 11 two weeks ago)

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Turner Posse Visits Superior Bike Park

March 20, 2011

The recently opened Superior Bike Park is packed full of fun and variations for all riders. The guys from LeeLikesBikes designed and build the track for the City of Superior. The park has 2 pump tracks, one beginner and one expert; also two flow trails, one beginner and one expert. Having spent a few days on at the park, I feel good saying that the expert pump track is the best in the state- HAND DOWN!!!

The park is located just south of Hwy 36 and McCaslin Blvd- on Rock Creek Parkway.

Get out and pump!!!!

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ABA Race of Chamoions

November 26, 2010

Thursday Practice at the grands got the boys psyched to race! Watching the pros launch the pro line was amazing! The boys qualifed for the Race of Champions on Friday- 425 motos in one day- finals in about 3 hours.

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ABA Grand Nationals

November 24, 2010

The Turner boys are heading to Tulsa OK this holiday for the ABA Grand Nationals! Stay tuned for pix and results.

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2010 Cornhusker BMX Nationals

August 22, 2010

Team BikeParts.Com brings home some hardware from the ABA Cornhusker Nationals. While dad gets slower and slower, the boys get faster and faster.
RESULTS

Friday:
Conrad 5th (I think) in the final
Dillon 1st in the final
Lander did not qualify (bummer)

Saturday:
Conrad semis
Dillon 2nd in the final
Lander 6th in the final

Sunday:
Conrad did not qualify 😦
Dillon 1st in the final
Lander 6th or 7th

Great weekend in 165 degree 300 percent humidity. Goodtimes, I’m a proud dad.

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ABA Spring Nationals 2010

May 29, 2010

Dillon T 4th place in the 8 year old intermediate class main event.

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Almost packed, testing the iPhone wordpress app

May 26, 2010

Step 1 pack
Step 2 re-tire & re-gear 3 bikes
Step 3 figure out how to get 3 bikes and 4 people in a VW Golf?

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ABA Spring Nationals- Here we come

May 24, 2010

The Turner Posse is heading to Albuquerque, NM for the ABA Spring Nationals for the holiday weekend- http://www.dukecitybmx.org/

The track is treated with a mystery polymer to control dust and to be super smooth!

This past weekend all three boys made the podium in their classes and are eating spaghetti for breakfast, lunch, and dinner…

Check back for race action  photos, we’ll be racing on Friday eve, Saturday, and Sunday.

Dad Turner

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Whoa!

April 1, 2010

Lil D Turner learning the fast way through a rythm section at the BMX track!  Keep on working those manuals D!

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Power Slide

March 15, 2010

This guy gives a whole new meaning to a power slide!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJRVx4UQtzk

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Golden Bike Park

February 9, 2010

coming soon…

but they need some help…

Golden Bike Park: Need your help!!!

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The rumors and plans are becoming reality! The Golden Bike Park is very close with final plans with approvals coming up quickly. The Golden Bike Park development Team needs your assistance on a few matters; and its only a quick email away:

The Golden Bike Park is meant to appeal to everyone. We are planning to have several elements that include:
-Gravity fed flow trail
-Gravity fed jump trail
-pump tracks (2 initially, one for smaller kids and one for bigger kids (adults))
-cyclo-cross / XC loop
-DH skill trails
-drop zone
-Dirt Jumps
-progression & obstacle elements trail

All of these elements will be phased in over time, and our window for phase one approvals is getting very close.

How you can help:

1. Support
2. maintenance crews
3. Trail construction

1. I would like to get your support. All you need to do is send me an email, stating your support of the park.
-please include
-your full name
-your address, city, state
-email address (this is for communication only, I WON’T SPAM YOU!!!)
-telephone number (optional)

2. We are putting together a long term maintenance plan for Golden Parks & Rec’s Dept. Because they have never maintained a facility like this, short term, we need your help with a maintenance plan. If you would like to volunteer some time, helping with trail maintenance and other bike park help, Please let me know in the email!!!
-state in the email: Please contact me for help with bike park maintenance.

-our expectation is that we’ll run a voluntary once a month (initially) crew to keep the dirt in the right places and make sure the trails are the way we want them.

3. Longer term, we’ll be putting together new trail plans and Bike Park Idea’s from you. We want this to be a place where everyone (XC, DH, DS, DJ, DS, FR, Cyclo-cross, kids, teenager, groms, wives, beginners to seasoned experts) can come and ride. In addition to your support, please realize that when you send your support for this park, that you may be a part of its longevity as this grows into something for everyone. Building trails can be a lot of fun, please let us know if you’re interested in that as well.

So please, send me an email, with the above info (your name, addy) and let us know if you’re interested in being a part of the trail crew (both routine maintenance and long term planning input).

Please send emails to: goldenbikepark@gmail.com

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Colorado Indoor BMX Racing

January 24, 2010

An enthusiastic group of people have orchestrated early season racing up in Greeley! Colorado Indoor BMX will be hosting three race weekends- One in early January, one in mid February, and the last one in March. The Turner Posse headed up for the first race, there was a huge turnout on both days, I’d guess 350-400 on Saturday with 32 motos (by age and level) and 250-300 on Sunday with 28 motos. Even though the turnout was less on Sunday, the racers on Sunday were the hardcore seasoned riders. After 3 qualifiers for each  age group, Saturday ended up with both Conrad and Dillon making the final for their age group and both got second place podiums. On Sunday, only Lander made the final and managed to blow a tire in the first turn, he was bummed, he had a good shot at making the podium, alas he will race another day.

So you are asking yourself, why do i care…..?

They have a MTB class that does not require ABA membership, that’s why! Bring your $10 and a MTB, and you get a full day of racing indoors. It would be great to get a bunch of the team out there and invite as many other Front Range teams and hope for a huge turn out.

For more info- http://www.cibmx.org/

Update- The Turner Boys just got their district numbers for 2010-

Conrad is #121

Dillon is #73 (hoping to move up to expert)

Lander is # 129

Good job little BPC’ers!

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