Century Cycles is teaming up with NiteRider Technical Lighting Systems to offer local bicyclists the chance to try the company's innovative, high-powered lights on a Night Ride on the Towpath Trail on Saturday, July 21. The NiteRider bicycle light display will open at 6:00pm in the parking lot of the Century Cycles bicycle store in Peninsula, Ohio (1621 Main Street). The free Night Ride starts in the same parking lot at 8:00pm.

All attendees will have the opportunity to register to win a NiteRider MiNewt.600 Cordless headlight ($149.99 value)!
NiteRider will have an assortment of its most popular bike lights available for Northeast Ohio bicyclists to demo on the two-hour Night Ride. Those interested in using a NiteRider demo light must provide a driver's license and credit card as collateral, and all demo lights are on a first-come, first-served basis.

For more information about Century Cycles Night Rides on the Towpath Trail, including directions to the store, tips on preparing for a Night Ride, pictures and videos from past rides, and the schedule of remaining rides for 2012, see:

The Medina County Bicycle Club's Ice Cream Odyssey on July 21, 2012 is a bicycle outing on a hot summer day through quaint small towns over scenic rolling terrain. Sponsored and supported by The University of Akron's Medina County University Center and Century Cycles. For full details and a link to online registration, see:

Click on the link or map below for more details about this trail, including links to a downloadable map, photos of key points on the trail, and Ryan's insider tips for riding:

Where We Ride: Royalview Mountain Bike Trail in the Cleveland Metroparks      

   

 

A chance to show your bike pride, win a new bike and support Bike Cleveland!

Why do you ride your bike? What does Cleveland's growing bicycle culture mean to you and your riding? What do you like best about bicycling in Northeast Ohio? Being on a bike represents different things to different people. Now here's the chance to tell your story - and show your Cleveland bike pride - in the My Reasons To Ride Cleveland Video Contest, now through August 15. Sponsored by Raleigh Bicycles, Century Cycles and Bike Cleveland.

For full contest details, including how to enter, see:

 

Many of our customers inquire about what options are available for changing the choice of gear combinations on their bicycles. The most common reason is to get lower gears to make climbing up hills a little easier.

There are many options available to change your bike's gearing, but in many cases it's not as simple as just swapping out the actual gears. Often, you'll need to replace other components in order for everything to work. To learn more about what gear choices are available to you, and some issues that you and your bike mechanic need to consider before making any changes, check out this article:

 

We're all coping with this dry, hot summer, and we're now stocking Nuun tablets to help with our customer's hydration needs, which got us thinking...

What's in your water bottle during a long bike ride on a hot day? Click here to take our latest online poll and let us know!

 Last month's poll asked, "What's the most valuable lesson you've learned from your cycling friends?" The top answer, at 31% of all votes, was "Not to buy a bike at Walmart." Second-place was "Wearing a helmet" (21%), but that was followed very closely by both "Not wearing underwear under my bike shorts" (19%) and "How to change a flat tire" (18%). Surprisingly (or maybe not?), the "snot rocket" was the least popular response, at 12%.

 

Deagan's Kitchen & Bar and Century Cycles are teaming up to bring you our second annual Bike Night, from now until October 11, 2012.

Customers who ride their bicycle to Deagan's Kitchen & Bar in Lakewood on Thursday nights anytime from 5:00pm to close receive 15% off their food and drink bill, plus are entered to win a brand-new Raleigh Cadent i8 bicycle, plus other great prizes from Century Cycles and Deagan's. The more Thursday nights you bike to Deagan's, the more chances you have to win!

The winners will be drawn at the Deagan's Bike Night Finale Party on October 11!

Deagan's has been a winner of Best New Restaurant, Best Gastropub, and Best Service in Cleveland Magazine's Silver Spoon Awards. It is located in the heart of Lakewood, Ohio at 14810 Detroit Avenue.

 

July 21: Ice Cream Odyssey Ride
July 21: NiteRider Lighting Systems Demo Night Ride on the Towpath Trail
August 4-5: Bike MS Pedal to the Point
August 9: Cycling Makes Sense Fitness Ride
August 10: Night Ride on the Towpath Trail
August 15: Last chance to enter the My Reasons To Ride Cleveland Video Contest
August 25: Night Ride on the Towpath Trail
August 30: Cycling Makes Sense Fitness Ride

Here are some of our favorite posts from the Century Cycles Blog and our Facebook Page from the past month that you may have missed:

• Radio Century Cycles Episode XVI 
• Define your life. Ride a bike...in Calgary! 
• Giant, Raleigh, and Electra top Consumers Digest Expert Picks in Road, Hybrid, and Comfort Bikes  

In addition to the photo from Calgary in Alberta, Canada linked above, we've also had customers share photos with their Century Cycles jerseys and t-shirts from the Tour de France! Keep those photos coming; we love them! 

 

One of the most popular posts on our Facebook Page recently was this panel from Yehuda Moon, the bicycling-themed comic strip written and drawn right here in Cleveland:

 

   

How many of us haven't done tried that?!? 

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Define your life. Ride a bike.™