Our Blog / 2013
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Happy New to You
Read more →Wishing a Happy (Healthy) New Year from our OYM Family to yours... (Special thanks to Matthew Steinhoff for this fabulous pic from our 2013 Holiday party)! Join us for our New Year's Day Hangover 100 ride which rolls out of the shop tomorrow morning at 6:20 AM. Have you been catching all the social medial updates via our FREE A1A Marathon Training Plan that we started sharing a couple of weeks ago? Follow tweets via @cleatsngoggles (AKA Coach Matt) as well as postings on our Facebook page. Updates happen three to four times a week. Perfect info for a marathon first-timer! Love, Peace...
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Take a Ride on Our Demo Wheels
Read more →Check out these gorgeous wheels! Pick your favorite set, and we'll pop them right on your own frame. Take them for a spin on your regular ride (or join us on the OYM Shop Ride, Saturday Ride or Club Ride) so you can really get a feel for them. Choose from Rolf Prima Ares4, Rolf Prima Vigor, Zipp 404, or Enve SES 3.4 for your test drive. We bet you'll get hooked so we've sweetened the deal: Order any brand-new set of our featured demo wheels, and we'll throw in a tires and tubes for FREE! We're thankful for your...
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Interbike, Instagram and More!
Read more →If you already follow us on Twitter @OYMBike, Instagram oymbike, and Facebook oymcycling, then you probably know about our big trip out to Interbike International Bicycle Expo 2013 in Las Vegas last week. We saw tons of the latest & greatest bikes, gear and apparel. Did you catch all our live tweets and photos? Here's a few: Check out this improved (if that's possible) Ares4! We were impressed with this awesome inline brake release lever from Shimano. We saw this on a lot of bikes with hidden calipers. We loved the BH Bikes Aero with DA Di2. The new large screen head unit from Cateye...
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Cycle Back to Sleep
Read more →We're happy to announce our new monthly column in the Healthy Living Magazine section of Florida Weekly! This week's full version is now available online and free in local area stores. Our first topic concerns sleep disorders and the positive effect of cycling. Take a look: You can click through to the full PDF of the article right HERE. Let us know what you think! Love, Peace and Bicycle Grease, Matt & Julie
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Hydrate and Ride Great
Read more →Summer in South Florida is never the time to take chances with hydration - especially when cycling. Keeping your body healthy and hydrated on a daily basis will go a longer way toward setting you up for a successful ride than anything else. Sipping 12-16 ounces of water about four hours before climbing onto your bike for a moderate-paced ride is a good plan. Then, around two hours before you start, slowly drink another 12 ounces. There's no need to over-hydrate as your body can only absorb so much fluid. Having water available during your ride is necessary, however, so...
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Get Inspired with OYM in the New Year
Read more →Happy New Year! "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving." ~ Albert Einstein We're looking forward to lots of exciting events here at OYM Performance Center in 2013. Be sure and subscribe to our monthly email newsletter so you don't miss a moment of the action. Love, Peace and Bicycle Grease, - Matt & Julie