Road: Bikeland leads weekly Saturday morning
road rides leaving the store at 7:00 am. All rides are
leader assisted, no drop rides. There are 3 different
skill levels, pick ride that you feel comfortable with..
Click here for more details on these rides.

Mountain: Bikeland also offers weekly Mountain
bike rides at 8:30a.m.on Sunday mornings at
Cypresswood.

Directions to Cypresswood trail:
Trail is on Cypresswood between Kuykendahl and
Stuebner Airline, on the south side of the street,
across from where TC Jester meets Cypresswood.
(TC Jester does not go all the way through at this
time.)

This is an easy trail with some fun technical areas
for those who want a challenge. All levels of abilities are welcome to come. No one will be left behind.

For more information on rides in our area.Click here

So you think you have that competitive spirit in you? Wanting to improve your cycling and not too sure how to go about it?

Soon you will have the opportunity to become a part of something exciting and new. A chance to prove what great cyclist you are.

Bikeland will be announcing a road and mountain bike team assembled and ready to race before the fall cup racing season begins.
More to follow soon, for more information
Contact Bikeland

Nobody likes doing it, but everybody has to face it eventually. Here's how to make the best of a bad situation. Everybody dreads changing tires.
Scraped knuckles, scratched rims and pinched tubes can result if you don't know what you're doing. The truth is that quite often you don't even need tools to remove and replace a tire. You just need moderately strong fingers, a jaunty smile, self-confidence, a bit of knowledge and a favorable tire/rim fit.

Check out a rim. The outer flanges of the rim form the braking surfaces.
Just inside the flanges are narrow ledges, and between the ledges is a depression called the well. The diameters of all these features are vital in determining how easy it will be to get a tire on or off the rim, and also in keeping the tire from blowing off the rim inadvertently at high tire pressures.

The tire has a knobby tread bonded to a carcass made of plies of strong fiber. These plies run under the tread at specific angles, and they run out to, and around, the two bead wires. These wires might be steel, or they can be a strong and light Aramid fiber-like Kevlar. They don't stretch.

When the tire is on the rim and inflated, the bead sits at the corner of the ledges and the flanges of the rim, pressed into the corner by air pressure.
When you de-pressurize the tire, and try to spoon it off the rim with your trusty tire levers, you're trying to stretch that bead wire over the rim flange, which is quite a bit larger in diameter. You can't do it. The most important trick of the tire-change masters is to fully deflate the tube, then squeeze the bead wires together, off the ledges, into the well, all the way around the rim. Run your hand around the tire, pinching your thumb and fingers together just above the rim. This can take a little force if the tire has been on the rim for a while and is stuck to it pretty well, but it will come free.

Now when you pry the bead toward the top of the flange at the top of the wheel, the bead wires at the bottom of the rim are tucked away in the well, which has a smaller diameter than the ledges. This smaller diameter gives the beads just enough slop to let you get them started over the rim flange.
If you're lucky, the tire will be just a little loose on the rim, and you'll be able to get the bead wire over the rim with your fingers. For more difficult tires, place the deflated wheel on your thighs, valve down, and reach to the top of the wheel with both hands. With your fingers on the far side of the top of the rim, work the tire off the far side with both thumbs about four inches apart. Once you get about six inches of the bead started, you can work the next foot or so of bead over the far flange with your thumbs with increasing ease, until the tire finally falls off.

To get the tire back on, partially inflate the tube, just enough to give it some shape. Put one bead wire on the rim, all the way around. Place the valve through the hole, and then stuff the tube into the tire. Making sure not to pinch the tube (fragile as a baby's bottom!), work the second bead onto the rim with your fingers. Once the last bit of bead snaps on, start the valve retaining nut (for presta tubes), and pump the tube to 60 psi to ensure that the tire won't blow off the rim and to seat the bead.