Newest bikes: Specialized 2013 Roubaix

Come into our Harlingen bike shop near Mercedes and see the new 2013 models we have coming in!
Specialized has done it again with the new 2013 Roubaix, their best-selling endurance bike series. The popularity of endurance bikes is growing and Specialized’s Roubaix bikes are enduringly popular.
Specialized designed and tested a number of different innovations, including putting suspension in the back of the new Roubaix. They developed several of these and the 2013 model is the final result of their creativity and meticulous research. The goal was to make the 2013 Roubaix faster than ever.
Changes included, notably, size-specific steerer tubes, which are 30 g lighter, and according to Specialized, result in forks that are 20% more compliant. The tubing sizes and layups have also been made size-specific, improving both comfort and performance. The newly designed Zertz seatstays are straighter, giving more rigidity while still absorbing vibrations, and the Zerts elastomer insert is redesigned to make layup easier and increase consistency.
Come in an check out these and other new 2013 bikes! Read more about the new Roubaix from Specialized at Bikerumor.com

Tour de France stage 17

 Nicolas Bouvy / EPA / July 18, 2012

Our bike shop near Rio Hondo is following the Tour de France in its final exciting days!
Brit Bradley Wiggins endured the grueling, mountainous stage 17 of the race Thursday, and said he feels it is "pretty much over". With just three stages remaining in the 2012 Tour de France, Wiggins seems secure in his place as the yellow jersey holder. Wiggins finished 3rd in stage 17, with a 2 minute 5 second overall lead over his teammate Christopher Froome, who came in ahead of Wiggins in stage 17, in second place. 
The remaining stages in the Tour de France are two flat stages and a time trial, which Wiggins is expected to do well in. With any luck, Wiggins will, in three days, be the first Tour de France winner from Great Britain.
Alejandro Valverde of Spain enjoyed an emotional win in the 17th stage, after returning from a two-year doping ban, and a rough tour start, including surviving three crashes. A teary Valverde said of his victory, “It erases all of the past.”