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Orlando Tri Stores
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To all Orlando based triathletes.

What are the better tri-stores to pick up nutritional products and gear please ?

Thanks.

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream" - Les Brown
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment" - Jim Rohn
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Re: Orlando Tri Stores [canuck8] [ In reply to ]
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Canuck,

Surprisingly, for an area that holds itself out as the triathlon capital, really there aren't any good tri stores that satisfy the needs of the very large triathlon community.

Ironically, the best place for nutritional products and basic gear is Orange Cycle. Orange is an all-purpose store, focusing mostly on road bike, mountains bikes and kids bikes. This is not known as a tri store. They do have a small amount of tri-bikes (litespeed, kestrel), and related products and tri-attire. If you want mutiple selections of supplements, GUs, bars, tubes, tires, etc., this is the place to go. They also have the best selection of clothing, including tri-attire.

Locomotion carries Cervelo and Felt. I like this store and the people that work there. The sponsor some really good triatletes in this town. They are light on product though. I have walked in looking for long-valve tubes, tires, misc. products, and they were out, so I went to Orange.

South Lake is a personal favorite b/c I like the owner Mark, who is the real deal - he is at the events every time helping out. He works harder than any other shop. His inventory is very small though.

Glory Cycles is the hot place for race bikes. They carry Orbea, Bianci, Ridley, etc. They have all the hot products. Most of the bike racers hang here. The owner is a super-nice former European pro. This is where I mostly shop. They do not carry nutritional product and are light on tri-stuff (though do carry Krestrel).

The track shack - the premier running store - has a very good array of nutritional product.

If you are looking for bike fit, skip the stores. Mostly of the competitive triathletes get fitted by Adam Baskin at PeakOneFitness.
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Re: Orlando Tri Stores [RA] [ In reply to ]
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Dang Robert,

You pretty much covered everything in your usual concise manner. I have nothing to add other than Davids World has more locations than anyone else but from my visits even less tri related products than the other merchants referenced. Then again I have not been in one of their shops in a while. Probably since I blow my spending budget every time I visit with the S. African.

Btw, when are you going to schedule the viewing and services for the dearly departed colnago?



Cheers,

Jim

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Re: Orlando Tri Stores [trijs] [ In reply to ]
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No comment. I'm still in mourning. Tomorrow I will be in all black, mounted on my misused red QR, the poor soul that lost much attention when the new misses was introduced into the household. But now she is dead.
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Re: Orlando Tri Stores [RA] [ In reply to ]
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Sounds like we better get a police escort for the procession. So where will it be heading - EE or Lakemonster?

Jim

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Appreciate the info gents thank you very much.

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream" - Les Brown
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment" - Jim Rohn
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Re: Orlando Tri Stores [canuck8] [ In reply to ]
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I just bought a jetstream nxt aerodrink bottle at Orange Cycle. They have a great selection of profile aerobars, desoto , sugoi, and zoot clothes, race number belts and little things like that.

I bought my wetsuit at Locomotion back in April. they had a couple of p2k sl's on the floor and several Felts when I was there.


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Re: Orlando Tri Stores [miater] [ In reply to ]
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Thanks Miater, appreciate your feedback.

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream" - Les Brown
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment" - Jim Rohn
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