Charge Bikes

Welcome to the team!

Charge Bikes welcomes Stacey Guy to the Team! Time for a few formal questions…

Name: Stacey Guy

Age: 26

Where's home: Cape Town

Job: Pro Surfer / Student / Surf Instructer / Sales Rep

Describe yourself in 3 words: Emotionally Peculiar Smartypants

How many bottles of wine does your wine sponsor send you per week? As many as I require. Depends on the week. Haha

Describe a usual day in the life of Stacey Guy: Wake up. Coffee (very important). Surf. Eat. Surf. Ride bike. Find something fun to do ie. Hikes in the mountain. Cruise the city. Be rad. Everyday is different. Depends on the weather is doing and what the waves are like.

What made you contact Charge Bikes first: Very Sexy Bikes.

What bike do you ride? Pink Plug Freeeestyler. She's a winner.

Jough’s Crosser on Cross crazy

Team rider Jon Watson is now heavily into the winter cyclo-cross season. He's been having some fantastic results on board his titanium Freezer in the Yorkshire points series, the SRAM Nott's and Derby league and the National Trophy.

www.cross-crazy have done a feature on jough's race bike. Check it out here  http://www.cross-crazy.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=872:jon-watsons-charge-freezer-titanium&catid=43:your-bikes&Itemid=28 

For more on Jon, get to his team blog here http://chargebikes.typepad.com/jon_watson/  

Cycling Plus – Filter Hi review

No sooner was the Filter Mid given a great review in Cycling Active do we have another great Filter review. This time the Hi version has been featured in Cycling Plus and once again it's recieved some great feedback.

"All told, the Charge Filter is a cracking all rounder and the best bike here"

Dirt 100 – Blender and Spoon

The Dirt 100 is an annual special issue of the magazine which features their 100 best products of the year. The Blender has been featured in the previous 2 years as well as thi years. For the 2010/11 issue though the Spoon saddle makes it's debut.

Cycling Active – Filter Mid

Start of the week and another batch of new magazines have come through with some great press for Charge. Cycling Active have had a Filter Mid out on test and have given it a very nice write up.

"Pitched by it's creator as the ultimate urban warrior, it's actually a bit more. The Filter is a solid, steel framed road bike with full length metal mudguards and compact handlebars, making it perfect for commuting"

Check it out in the mag now.

“Back in the day”

"Back in the day" is a term I hear quite often from my colleagues Nick and Matt, I think Nick is refering to when he used to race mountainbikes to quite a high level when he was young (early 90's) and I'm pretty sure Matt, being a BMX racer, is refering to the 80's when brands like Skyway, JMC and Patterson (who!?) were prevalent. Anyway, here are some photo's of our Cyclo-cross team rider Jon Watson from "back in the day"

and a look at what Cyclocross used to be like a little further "back in the day"  

Robs shiny chrome single speeder

Rob Dean was the winner of the Charge Bikes Set 2 Rise 12 hour enduro and as such recieved the only chrome Duster SS frame in existence as his prize!

This is what he's done with it, rather nice job we think!

Win a Charge Plug bike

Road.cc are offering their readers the chance to win one of our Plug Grinders visit road.cc here to see how you can enter!

Thunder from Down Under

Check out this Plug from our Aussie distributor Monza Imports. It was built for one of their motorbike divisions technicians. Originally a black Plug Racer, the paint's been stripped, a clear coat lacquer applied, some Straw bars and a Chopstick seat-post fitted along with some Truvativ Omnium track cranks.

Tom La Marche – latest video

Charge team rider Tom La Marche's latest video on his Scissor fixed gear bike. Watch out for the crash at the end!

Don't watch if you're offended by bad language! 

WRAHW Welcomes Tom Lamarche from WRAHW on Vimeo.