From the Pro Tour to the Tuesday night training crit, these race-ready bikes put light weight, speed and efficiency above all else. Dedicated road riders looking for championship winning designs, like those ridden by Saxo Bank, Quick Step and ValueAct Capital, need look no further than the Tarmac, Allez and all-new women’s Amira.

Race-proven by athletes like Christoph Sauser, Todd Wells, Conrad Stoltz, Lene Byberg and Rebecca Rusch, our Competitive XC bikes are the fastest, lightest and most efficient performance mountain bikes—built for riders and racers looking for effortless speed and agility over cross-country and technical terrain.

Riders looking for the perfect starting point to XC riding or just a versatile and reliable hardtail for kicking around town will find everything they need in these lightweight, do-it-all hardtails. All styles, levels and budgets welcome.

Fiona Lockhart, CTS Pro Coach

Training Tips brouht to you by Carmichael Training Systems®

There's lots of information out there for endurance athletes: sometimes too much. And because much of what you read in the media is conflicting, it can become quite difficult to figure out exactly what you should and shouldn’t do in training in order to improve your performance. Below are some of the myths that seem to be perpetuated over and over again, even though the scientific research doesn't back them up.

1.  There's no point in doing high-intensity workouts if you're training for a long-distance event, like a marathon, since you'll never be going that hard during the event.
No matter what the event you are training for, it's useful to change up the intensity of your workouts to make sure you work all your physiological systems, as well as to prevent physical and mental staleness. Research has shown that athletes who perform sprint workouts were able to improve their longer-term endurance performance. That doesn’t mean that you do high-intensity intervals, like sprints or hill repeats, all the time, but adding them to your total training mix will make you a better athlete.