2012 Hours
Tuesday through Thursday– 9:30 to 5:30pm
Fridays – 9:00 to 6:00pm
Saturdays – 9:00 to 5:30
Sundays & Mondays – closed
As the new year begins, we’d like to thank all of our customers, racers, riders & friends for coming through the shop, spending time, and letting us work on your bikes. It’s for all of you that we open the door in the morning, and stay late gluing tires. Without Victoria’s unsurpassed cycling community, there would be no need for as many great bike shops as there are. Thanks for keeping us around.
2012 being just around the corner means lots of new product, colours and excitement.
First up is a beauty pair of Shimano SH-R241, the brand new Ultegra-level road shoe from Shimano. Never content to rest on laurels garnered from making some of the best road & mountain shoes on the market, Shimano have stepped out from their usual safe aesthetic to craft the R241. Carbon sole, ratcheting closure, and durable synthetic leather uppers in blue bright enough to make Victoria’s Tripleshoters proud. The crux of the shoe remains the fit. Fully moldable in our Shimano Custom Fit EZ-Bake oven, a free custom fitting is included with every purchase of Custom Fit shoes.
Sportique’s well-executed line of athletic skin care products makes for perfect winter gifts. Warming embrocation, shammy cream, and classy shaving soap, wrapped up in a clean euro look. The Get Going Cream makes winter rides and coffee shop stops way cozier.
Fenders. Trick out your beat up winter bike with a svelte set of German-made SKS fenders, or buy a set of the Crud Roadracer 2 to slip onto the carbon race bike and keep riding all winter. Think of it as a holiday gift for all the other riders behind you in the peloton… We keep a full complement of SKS’s remarkable P45 full wrap fenders, their versatile Race Blade, as well as Crud’s tricky Roadracer 2.
Our favourite bastion of old school, died-in-wool cycling culture, Cycles Marinoni continue to impress. While yearly trying to stay relevant with a new batch of monocoque carbon frames, it’s for their ferrous frames that we have the greatest affinity. Despite a (deserved) reputation for delicate paint, Marinoni’s custom paint colours are always breathtaking. This 25-year-old frame came back to the shop after a cleanup and repaint. Returning with a coat of rich metallic blue, and classic white decaling, it looks better than ever. And even better? For a reasonable $250, you can have that old ‘noni gathering dust in your garage repainted to equal luster.
A good friend and riding buddy, Grant, has been shredding lower Van Island on his Chris Dekerf built creamsicle-coloured Chromag Surface 29er. The first steel hardtail built for 29″ wheels from Whistler’s mtb superstars, the Chromag crew. A badass bike, with trail chops and all kinds of sex appeal.
