In this issue:

Fusion re-Cycles Opening Soon – bikes needed
Cannondale bikes now at Fusion
June Special
Fusion relocation – 68 Commercial Rd
Free Bike Maintenance Workshop – Sun June 14
Bicentennial Bikeway Upgrade
Group Riding Etiquette Tips
Upcoming Events
Studio Rise Tour de France Promotion
Nutrition Tips – Fat Burning Supplements

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Fusion re-Cycles Opening Soon – bikes needed

When Fusion Cycles moves across the road, our existing shop will turn into Fusion re-Cycles.  Fusion re-Cycles will sell quality second hand bikes with 3 months of free servicing, a professional bike fit and a guarantee of friendly, expert advice.

If you have a quality, used bike that you would like to sell, please click here to email the details to us.  We will then setup appointment times to appraise your bike. 

Second hand bikes will be sold on consignment only and sellers are required to pay for a Silver bike service prior to the bike going on the Fusion re-Cycles floor.  To read the Fusion re-Cycles seller agreement, please click here. 

Cannondale bikes now at Fusion

Cannondale Bad Boy Disc Street Bike $1950

We are pleased to announce that Cannondale bikes are now available at Fusion Cycles.  Cannondale is a US company with a quality range of road, mountain bike and recreational bike styles.  Cannondale are well known in the bike industry and don’t need too much introduction but these words from their website are pretty cool!

“For us at Cannondale, it's building, testing and rebuilding; making it better in the process, never settling for "good enough". It's knowing it, verses guessing it and using the world's greatest athletes to prove it. It's having such high standards and expectations in how we want product to perform that we are relentless in our pursuit.

It's not about superfluous welds or fancy etchings, it's about performance, innovation, superior product. Does it contribute to the ride? Does it do what we want it to do? When we step back and look at our work, the answer is easy... it does, and we feel it everyday, knowing you'll feel it too.”  

June Special

Bianchi 1885 Born for Performance Race Bike
Alloy frame, carbon fork, campagnolo veloce groupset
RRP: $3599  Fusion Special $2999

Bike Review

Cannondale Six Carbon
Six Carbons are full carbon down to the dropouts, and share the pro-Tour features common to the Elite line. The massively oversized tubes on the front triangle deliver outstanding performance, while the hourglass-shaped seatstays give the vibration-damping comfort racers need to keep a competitive edge.

The cannondale Six Carbon is available in four different colours (white, black, blue, silver) and ranges in price from $3000-$5500 depending on which Shimano groupset is preferred.
        
Click here for more info on the Cannondale Six Carbon.

Fusion relocation – 68 Commercial Rd

Fusion Cycles is moving to 68 Commercial Rd, directly across the road from where we are now.  The new space will give us more room, direct access to a great coffee shop and we’ll have a great deck for customers to hang out on, after rides. 

All going well, we will move in at the beginning of July.  Once settled, we will have a ‘shopwarming’ party where we will launch a fantastic new brand for Fusion Cycles – CERVELO.  Watch this space for more details in next month’s e-news.

Studio Rise Tour de France Promotion

Studio Rise Indoor Cycling Studio is having a Tour de France challenge.  Ride 1hr every morning for 10 days at 6am from Monday 13th July until Saturday 24th July.  Each day will simulate that days Tour de France stage. 

Participants can use the Studio Rise indoor spin bikes complete with use of heart rate monitor, resistance, cadence and Kcal recording or bring their own bike with wind-trainer.  There will be Prizes & Giveaways & Food!

Book the early bird rate of $225 before 15 June (limited numbers)
post 15 June $250 registrations. 

For further information contact Studio Rise
T: 3162 3231
E info@studiorise.com.au 
W: studiorise.com.au

Nutrition Tips – Fat Burning Supplements

The world of supplementation can be a mine field.  As more and more supplements come out that purport to do amazing things, with patented blends that ensure better outcomes than their competitor’s, it is becoming harder and harder for the consumer to know what works and what doesn’t.  A simple excursion through the supplement aisle at a supermarket will give you a small glimpse of what is available to the main stream. A venture into a supplement store can be mind boggling.   Supplements are big business but most athletes have no idea what most of the ingredients in their supplements do?  There has been a massive push recently in the US by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to try and clamp down on the unsubstantiated claims supplement companies make about their products and this has led to a large number of court cases and product recalls. 

So what are the main ingredients in some of the big selling supplements and do they work?

Fat burners.
These supplements are sold under the premise that by talking a tablet or powder multiple times in the day you will increase your body’s ability to burn fat and lose extra body fat while not actually doing anymore work. 

The main ingredient in the vast majority of Fat burners (those that seem to work anyway) is Caffeine.  Caffeine is not always on the ingredient list though and most provide large amounts of caffeine through plant based sources such as Guarana, Kola nut, and Green tea extract.  

Caffeine allows you to exercise harder without feeling like you are exercising harder.  It affects a person’s Rate of Perceived exertion (RPE) so when you take caffeine in suitable doses you feel like you are working at a lower intensity than you actually are.  This means you can work harder and burn more energy without feeling like you are at your maximum. 

Also at rest it causes an increase in Basal Heart rate.  This means that things are just going a little faster in the body.  Meaning that the body needs to work a little harder to maintain basic function and therefore you burn more energy at rest.  Very minor but over a long period it can be significant.

The amount of caffeine found in these supplements can be extraordinary.  One report on a fat burning supplement from the US suggested it contained >1,200mg of caffeine in a daily dose (the average cup of espresso has around 100mg).  These levels of caffeine can have significant detrimental effects on mental function, cardiac health, anxiety, not to mention the ability to totally destroy normal sleep patterns and behaviours.  Therefore even though people convince themselves that these supplements are working they are probably doing more damage than good.

Another that is losing favour now but is still in some fat burning supplements is L-carnitine.  Carnitine is important in the transport of fatty acids across the cellular membrane into the energy factories of the body.  This process has been identified as the limiting process that may be the reason why humans can’t burn fat at high exercise intensities.  Therefore the theory is that more carnitine would mean greater ability to transport fat into the cells where it can be burned for energy.  In practice, this is not actually the case.  Oral L-carnitine supplementation can in fact increase levels of carnitine in the body but research has shown that these levels aren’t actually increasing where it matters most in the cell membranes.  This means that more L-carnitine in the body cannot change the amount in the cell walls meaning it can’t affect fat metabolism as it has been suggested.

Recently a fat burning supplement has been recalled in the US due to it causing liver damage in a number of people taking it.  Although this is in the US, a lot of products still make their way onto Australia shelf’s and contain similar products to those in the US.

Athletes and weekend warriors alike need to be very careful when using these fat burning supplements as they can have serious long term consequences.

Greg Shaw
Sports Dietitian
Australian Institute of Sport

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