Mesa Cycles

Mother’s Day CycloFemme/Mesa Cycles Gossip Ride

Olivia — Wed, 09 May 2012 14:33:31 +0000

Ladies,
Start your Mothers Day off on an upbeat note by joining us for a leisurely meandering ride through the Central West End and Forest Park with stop at Northwest Coffee for I Scream Cakes and coffee, then back to Mesa Cycles to receive your goodie bag with free product and/or offers from the additional ride sponsors: St. Louis Original Spinning, Bissinger’s Chocolate, Prana Yoga, Body Fusion, Bike Medicine, The Watering Bowl, Gateway Harley-Davidson, Mathew Roberts Color and Design, Bicycle Bling and Chamois Butt’r.

The Gossip Ride starts and finishes at Mesa Cycles. The start time is promptly 9:00am, so be sure to arrive at least 15 minutes early. The address is 1035 S. Big Bend Blvd, Richmond Heights, MO 63117. If you plan on attending, please RSVP to sales@mesacycles.com.

Benvenuto Colnago!

Olivia — Mon, 07 May 2012 19:09:57 +0000

The new addition to Mesa’s enthusiast bicycle line-up is here… the Colnago C59. Describing the handmade Italian frameset as beautiful is not adequate. The C59 Italia being the pinnacle of 60 years of refining the Colnago craft. From the Colnago website:

The C59 Italia is the pinnacle of the 2012 Colnago range. A custom made 100% carbon fibre racing machine designed, built and painted in Italy. With a frame weighing approximately 1000g it features an internally ribbed top tube shaped similar to the iconic Colnago Master frame. Frame efficiency is further increased by the use of specific square section chainstays and seatstays.

Two versions are available: One for electronic shifting systems such as Shimano Di2, and one for traditional mechanical shifting systems. Small features on each type of frame are changed subtly to ensure that the ride quality, performance and reliability are identical, no matter which one you choose.

Light, strong and efficient it is made to fit you perfectly and is the result of decades of experience and knowledge in producing lugged carbon fibre bicycle chassis. This allows the Colnago engineering knowledge and vast levels of experience to be applied to every rider of a C59 Italia, ensuring you are rewarded with a ride that is beyond comparison

Cyclocross Madness Sale!

Olivia — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 19:07:00 +0000

The season of racing in costume and beer hand ups is almost upon us. If you don’t have your super sweet tires or even your ‘cross steed yet, maybe this sale will help. We have a large selection of ‘cross tubulars (Dugast, Tufo, Challenge, and the new Specialized tubies) and clinchers (Challenge, Hutchinson, Michelin, Kenda, Maxxis and Specialized) on hand.

The sale items are: Challenge tubulars – 30% off.
2011 Crux Comps and Crux Elite bicycles – 20% off.
2011 Salsa Chili con Crosso bicycles – 40% off.
2012 Salsa Chili con Crosso Bicycles – 30% off.
2011 Crux w/SRAM Red/Gore/TRP Mag/Roval Alpinistes,
Dugast/Ritchey complete bike used twice – $2700(msrp $4700)

Cheers and bon frites.

Burnin at the Bluff VIII, October 8, 2011

Olivia — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 16:07:05 +0000

Please join us for the eighth year of our twelve hour mountain bike race! It takes place at Council Bluff lake in Potosi, Mo. The campground is reserved for the event so that everyone can partake in the full experience. There will be twelve and six hour categories – male solo, female solo, three person teams male and female, and coed. Registration will be via GetMeRegistered.Com this year. All the juicy details can be found at burnin blog

Camping reservations cannot be made until the week after Labor Day. See ya there!

Mesa Cycles-Top 100 Dealer Again

Olivia — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 22:01:55 +0000

Mesa Cycles has again been named one of the Top 100 Bicycle Retailers in the USA. The survey was conducted by Boulder Sports Research, a leading bicycle industry research company, in conjunction with the top suppliers of bikes and accessories. More than 5,000 bicycle dealers from across the country were rated on market share, community outreach, and store appearance. We are pleased to have been picked for the second year in row. Thank you to our customers, who made the awards possible.

The Venge has Come, Seen and Conquered

Webmaster — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 19:02:15 +0000

The game changer. The Holy Grail. The magic bullet. It used to be that the bike racing adage of “aero, light, stiff…. pick two” was irrefutable. Times are a changin’. The new S-Works Venge has set the mark that all others will strive for, an ultralight race bike with class-topping stiffnes and a reduction of the power required to go 40 km/hr of 20 watts! This advantage was used to good effect last Saturday by HTC Specialized rider Matt Goss to best his breakaway companions to win the “Primavera”.

Check out the details at the Venge mini-site: http://venge.specialized.com/#/home

Joe Martin U23 Recap

mesaadmin — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:13:02 +0000

This past weekend three members of the U23 Team headed down to Fayetteville, Arkansas for the Joe Martin Stage Race. Matt Pence, Alex Grman and Martin Lang made the trip down, with Matt Brandt at Collegiate Nationals and Zack Stein still finishing up school in Colorado.

The race began with a 2.5 mile uphill time trial on Thursday. Martin pulled out a 23rd at a little under a minute back, Alex was twelve seconds back in 30th and Matt only 30 seconds back from Alex in 52nd. The U23 Team was also joined by junior, Tony Wieczorek who had a strong time trial and finished in 32nd.

Going into Friday’s 110 mile race, with a 9 mile climb up Mt. Gaylor, the strategy was to lose as little time as possible, and spend the least amount of energy possible. At around 85 miles in, at the top of Mt. Gaylor, a group of twenty or so had made it away from the rest of the 99 rider field. Alex had suffered an inopportune flat near mile 60, and an incredibly slow wheel change and hadn’t made it to the climb with the front group. Matt, Tony and Martin, who also suffered an early flat, found themselves in the second group on the road, about 30 riders strong at the top of the climb. Matt, Tony and Martin rolled in with the second group 8 minutes down to the lead group, and Alex soldiered in with two other riders, after spending 50 miles chasing, and made the time cut for the next day.

Saturday brought a 90 mile road race with a similar 5000 feet of climbing to the first day. The team rode strong, and smart and finished easily in the front group, although plagued by their light weight in the downhill sprint finish.

Sunday was a brutal 12 corner criterium, similar to Snake Alley in that half of the race is the first lap. Matt was riding very strong, having made the front group, when he was taken out about halfway through the race, in the nastiest of the 12 corners. Martin and Tony were further back in the second or third group, and Alex finished close behind. The team had a solid GC performance as well. With Matt, Martin and Tony finishing 36th, 37th and 38th respectively in the overall, and Alex holding down the Lantern Rouge spot at 57th (Keep in mind his 50 mile chase, and the fact that the race started with 99).

Meanwhile, in his home state of Wisconsin, Matt Brandt rode a great criterium to take the Bronze in the Collegiate National Criterium! ALl in all, it was a great first out-of-town race weekend for the team, and only promises to get better as the season goes on and Matt and Zack join up with the team.

Vive le Tour!

Webmaster — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 01:29:04 +0000

TdF Viewing Party / Saturday, July 24 / 2010.

The Time Trial Stage. We’re giving our own tribute to the Tour by running Goldsprints, noshing brats and drinking some local brew. Come for the viewing, raffles and special evening pricing.