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Come on, people - you gotta work for these Benjamins!!

Jun 18, 2010 at 19:07
by Calgary Cycle  
After a day and half, we are actually saddened by the lack creativity from the comment section, do you want $200 in FREE online shopping money? If you do, then you need to cram an English major in there in the next two days, or get your little sister to do your home work if wanna a piece of the Calgary Cycle pie!

Get creative and take home some free parts!For example, from our current 'might as well be dead' poets' society we have:

'First time in my life I wished I lived in Calgary! Go Flames???'

and

'I have always wanted to visit Canada & I feel this gift certificate could somehow fill a void in my Arizona soul that has been longing for this lush environment that I witness in the plethora of videos that are exported from your Country'

and sadly....

'I gotta get me some Boxxers there...the deeper the cushion, the harder the pushin!'



If you can do better than these, this could be your easiest competition ever! Remember the two best comments on our sale will each get a $100 gift certificate to spend at our store!

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It's all about the Calgary Cycle Benjamins Baby!

Don't forget 1 more day left on the Sale!

Here are some of the door crashers for Saturday 19th June:

10 AM- 2pm

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Minion 3 C - 16 only $29.99

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Joplin Seat - 3 only $99.99

2pm - 5pm

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Trek 2009 Frame Session 88 Small - 1 only $1499.99 (picture not exact)

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XTR Crankset - 1 only $199.99


Happy riding, looks like the weather is clearing up!

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181 Comments
  • 467
 Why is a calgary based company handing out Benjamins? That just doesn't even make sense...
  • 56
 Haha
  • 119
 Because its american money, or because Calgary hasn't ever seen that much cash in one place before?
  • 93
 Its the song 'its all about the benjamins', don't you guys know your pop culture!!
  • 39
flag CuBeRiDeRdAnNy (Jun 19, 2010 at 12:56) (Below Threshold)
 rich bitch Big Grin
  • 174
 I am guessing that when they say "you gotta work for these Benjamins!!" they are hoping it would bring a more common recollection of 100 dollars than "you gotta work for these Borden's"(Sir Robert Borden is on the canadian 100 dollar bill).
  • 65
 stinkypeter needs to have his commenting privileges revoked.
  • 24
 i would put some thought into writing something good about Calgary Cycles.... but school just ended and my body needs to work while my mind rests. Smile
  • 114
 dear calgary, I traded my dh jewel for dj tool, the frame is bent and is slower than a mule if i could get fine ass doe i could spice my whip up some mo and become a slopestyle pro to win crank works and become a freestyle hero..... yah right but could i get some money?
  • 46
 Alright well I'll share some things I've learned at Whistler in hope of earning some Bordens considering the US and Canadian $ is equal these days. Lesson 1: Do not drink and streak at night in the middle of winter through Whistler village. You will get hit by things harder than snow balls, and you will get frost bite on your feet (that shit sucks...). Lesson 2: If there is no line outside of Bullwinkles, try opening the door anyways. You may find that the place was shut down early and nobody is in the bar and they forgot to lock up so you and your buddies can drink for free. Best night ever. Lesson 3: If from the States and dont feel like standing in line, do not hand the bouncer a US ID while speaking in some terrible version of a Canadian accent while pretending you know the bartender. Your chances of getting in the bar are greatly diminished at that point. And finally lesson 4: Don't drink and ride... Nuff said
  • 22
 it would be interesting to see some haiku.
  • 11
 best
  • 10
 I wish I could speak English well to write a good comment lol
  • 11
 did a haiku already
  • 11
 (no comment) thats my effort
  • 21
 Constipated People Don't Give ACrap.
  • 11
 bahahahaah.
  • 10
 So are they going to shell out the gift cards or did they just rip us off in true Calgary fashion?
  • 10
 i think there just ripping us off because i have not got any money for my beautiful poem
  • 417
 My bike is off white, My helmet is scratched black, my bash guard is seafoam green and my bars, they snapped. My outlaws are bent eight ways to Sunday, some jackass stole my custom F4... that was not a fun day. The rack I have, it creaks on my car and with the Alevio drive train I'm not sure to go far. So please dear C.C. lend me an ear. Help keep by bike rolling just for one more year.
  • 32
 that's solid
  • 247
 There once was a man named Crocket Who hooked his bicycle up to a rocket He lost every race and fell flat on his face Because his pecker got caught in his XTR sprocket.
  • 1612
 i want that session 88 frame. finally, an insanely sexy frame that i can compare to myself. strong, hard, long travel, high and low speed compression options, and a smooth EVO link pivot. makes me wanna 'session' all day n' night long Wink
  • 410
flag benko (Jun 19, 2010 at 13:11) (Below Threshold)
 sudden neg. props? oh well..
  • 11
 Its a small though, not doing yourself any good. haha.
  • 11
 sssshhhhh i'm trying to compensate by making it rhyme!!!!!!!!!!!!! haha
  • 11
 ohhh you were talking about the frame??? oh boy... i just got myself into trouble... hahaha
  • 147
 Who needs rubber tires? REAL men ride on rims!
  • 117
 I don't comment for money, I comment for a chance to own that frame! its time to go on a session!
  • 24
 nicely put Wink +1 for you on that one!
  • 126
 I like turtles.
  • 52
 as i sit in my room thinking of everytime i have never been to calgary i really only remember the fact that a canadian store is handing out american money.
  • 32
 Dear Calgary Cycle your team is not delightful but better then Toronto's so screw being spiteful, If you guys shred first thing out of bed, then who cares about anything that i even said. Huck,spin, and drift god gave us this gift for us lucky boys to shred whistler's lifts. If i win this contest i truly promise this hundred bucks is going to best person and thats just being honest.
  • 85
 No matter how much money you shell out, your hockey team is still gonna suck.
  • 20
 haha yes
  • 118
 Wow, if this wasn't a gift card, I could buy myself like 50 Calgary hookers for that much money!
  • 42
 ZING!
  • 99
 this may seem rash, but since I'm bored here's a try... i need some cash, but i'll hoard what i buy for my future new frame, so im gonna be sly, and keep all this fame from my brother's jealous eye, because he causes my great plans to go all awry. Dont get my wrong, he's a really good kid we do get along like ice cream and pie but when it comes to this, friendship comes to a skid, and I keep to myself, you know why... so now, with this comment, I put in my bid this desperate plea, begging cry to take over this whole desperate grid of people that have no wit, so that I can easily overcome, but heaven forbid all this fame reaches bro's jealous eye...
  • 22
 well i am looking at my bike right now it is upside down and i dont get paid at my job cuz i am still paying off the bike that i am looking at and i just broke my forks and i have a race in a week!! i am screwed if i dont get some new boxxers with that cash soo plz help a brother out!!!
  • 31
 your video sucks
  • 10
 witch one lol its only tester vids and the trail is not even done.
  • 22
 For 100 dollars, one could buy 73 cheese burgers. Gas money for 2 weeks. Beer for all the buddies. Or even dinner for a date... But who would want to buy any of that stuff? When you could buy a new set of bars, some pedals, or a fresh pair of goggles, because after all, the other stuff doesnt matter until after youv'e ridden your pedal driven recreational vehicle!
  • 33
 Joplin Seat - 3 from Calgary Cycle.....$99.99
Price of gas to drive from Kentucky to Calgary for Summer Sale....$300.00
Redneck from Kentucky winning prize money so he can just buy the shit online.....Priceless..

Calagary Cycle....saving bikers everywhere....even in hillbilly country
  • 22
 It's Friday afternoon and all is good,
we prepare ourselves for a ride in the wood,
with beers on ice, and the weather too nice,
we pedal with purpose because it's our vice,

5 mins from our destination,
we feel the mounting anticipation,
"not far now" i exclaim with elation,

but the mtb gods would deny me, alas
by deflating my front tire with a small piece of glass,
if only this drunk had a little more class,
i wouldn't have an overwhelming urge to hand him his ass,

so please Calgary Cycle, do hear my pleas
as i long to be riding sweet lines in the trees
a customer for life, this i decree
if you give the prize money only to me
  • 33
 Sale: Noun. A period of time during which objects for sale are reduced in price. The sale was yesterday, and everything was super cheap.
Calgary Cycle: Noun. A reputable Canadian retailer of bicycle related merchandise. A real go-getter. Dude, I just got my new frame from Calgary Cycle three days early!
Idiot: Noun. Anyone who does not get in on the Calgary Cycles sale. See: fool, dunce, ignoramus, halfwit, jackass, idiot-man-child, Cartman, wizard of nothing, Yeti-spotter, inhalant aficionado, dropped baby, damaged goods, the easy sell, the ugly truth, the man with half a brain, sock-drawer burglar, and last but not least, FOOLISH,FOOLISH CONSUMER. Your wife's going to kill you, you idiot! That was $300 cheaper at Calgary Cycles!

100 dollars= new tires and bars for my bmx, a new shirt to replace my well-loved threads, and less guilt about spending hard-earned cash on my bike rather than my girlfriend, who lives in Canada seven months of the year. All in all, an awesome opportunity.
  • 22
 my poem- reluctantly crouched at the starting line, engines pumping and thumping in time. the green light flashes, the flags go up. churning and burning, they yearn for the cup. they deftly maneuver and muscle for rank, fuel burning fast on an empty tank. reckless and wild, they pour through the turns. their prowess is potent and secretly stern. as they speed through the finish, the flags go down. the fans get up and they get out of town. the arena is empty except for one man, still driving and striving as fast as he can. the sun has gone down and the moon has come up, and long ago somebody left with the cup. but he's driving and striving and hugging the turns. and thinking of someone for whom he still burns.
  • 12
 He's going the distance.
  • 12
 hes going for speed
  • 84
 stinkypeter, GTFO
  • 63
 @stinkypeter - is your username a statement about your hygiene?
  • 34
 Dont listen to Peter, your Norco looks awesome!
  • 38
flag stinkypeter (Jun 19, 2010 at 13:13) (Below Threshold)
 yes awesome! go team Norco YEAH!
  • 56
 Calgary Alberta, Home of the Flames,
For 100 Dollars comments best not be lame!
Write essays, haikus, of even a sonnet,
Or Pull a "Frank Abagnale", and just try to con it.
Why should I?!- You may ask in defense,
For if you are chosen... youll win 10000 cents-
To spend at Calgary Cycles of course,
When it comes to bike service, they're the best in the north!
And now I am sure, you've seen the error of your ways,
Try writing creativly, and not in dismay!
  • 19
flag SpecSproc (Jun 19, 2010 at 18:27) (Below Threshold)
 Wheels Turn, legs Burn. I'm headed down Rosedale to Calgary Cycles big Summer Sale. My sprocket is broken, and my hardtail was stolen. I won't make it till nine, So all summer ill be in a bind. The store closes at eight, If I won those Benjamin's that would be great.
  • 12
 Just a days drive from western montana, and I've yet to see what canadian riding is like. Unfortunately, around my parts, we've yet to establish an area just for mountain bikers. Mabye when I finally get a day off, and save enough money to buy a new bike, I'll see for myself what all the commotion is about.
  • 23
 The young punk rode his whip downtown
cranks tweaked, and livelyness to be found
rolled upon a stair set of gold
could have styled over it but instead he stole
running from the po-po hiding in alleys
till the cop located and put this rider to the ground.
"stop son this is not the life to live" - cop
"i cant pedal an that is holdin me back" - punk
split to gold 50/50 and they left,
kid got new cranks and steezin the town
Mr. cop had no big deal findin his stuff around.
  • 12
 Canada is cool, but we got rain in Oregon too. It's so slick, you can two wheel drift 20ft and do it all damn day! We got those huge trees, so you know we got jumps. 40 foot jumps! Aw shit son, you don't even know about our 40 ft jumps?! They are so sweet you get your bike sideways underneath your bad self. Oh yes, come to Oregon and shred those tires apart.
  • 32
 I'll give you my sisters virginity if you pick my comment. Oh wait, my sister is from Calgary! Good luck finding any virgins there!
  • 31
 I'll take your sister, she probably still has the box her virginity came in.
  • 31
 Oh, and Calgary cycle, can I buy meth off you with my gift card? Seems like everyone in Calgary sells it.
  • 21
 Damn, I hope Calgary Cycles has an online store, cause you'd need to bribe me a lot more than 100 bucks to go anywhere near Calgary.
  • 12
 Born n bred with those sweet prairie waters like wine
the tires roll 'or the hills, through crunching snow, single track behind me and anywhere to go
I strive to create the trail and breath crisp air
but it's July, so why not enjoy a summer's ride! Wink

Oh, and because in Calgary we ride in the snow (awesomely crazy as we are!) to go hard out right at huge snow banks. KA!PLOP goes my friend, over the handlebars and into not-quite-newly piled white, headfirst. Feet last. Legs sticking straight up and swinging wildly like...well, like two legs without a body, stuck into a snowbank and flopping like pissed off antenna. His muffled cries for help getting angrier between our howls of laughter! (time in memory at City Hall, one winter night.

I return home soon from months of gut wrenching pain of not being able to go biking in a prime dh region, on the other side of the sun. It'd sure be nice to have a Ben Franklin (with current exchange that'd be a Canadian hunny with GST!) of bike gear to help me get my feet back on the pedal.
  • 12
 building up the perfect bike, $2800
gas to get to the trail, $17.49
cooler full of beer and ice, $21.95
snacks, $10.49
crash on second turn, lots of screams
broken collar bone, $2500
wanting to spend money on biking essentials again instead of hospital bills, calgary cycles would agree...that's priceless.
  • 12
 There is a bike, a phantom bike, That rides and stalks every night It moves and pedals, and steers and provokes many fears. The phantom bike has run down many men and it's sound, a slight din no one knows the phantom bike, but be safe, ride at night with a light.
  • 74
 i don't get it Big Grin
  • 13
 haha
  • 86
 wyldebill try harder you’re rely bad at this.
  • 35
 I ride a Jamis Parker, and just like Bob Barker- It's old and wore out. But let's not all sit and pout. Instead let's ride a new line and not break our spine. That doesn't sound like a crime. This is a horrible rhyme, probably not worth a damn dime, but I'm out of time and that $200 would be mighty f'n fine.
  • 24
 I didn't win LottoMax this week, it was supposed to put the food on the table for my 50 kids and 7 wives. At least if I won this, I could sell some kids and a wife or two, grab the trek frame and ride my worries away for a little while.
  • 13
 In these Economic times,it astounds me that people spend thousands of dollars on all this flaffy carbon and Ti parts to shave weight off their already anorexic bikes. My weight saving tip? Take a shit before your race, will be the best feeling 800-1300 grams you'll ever shave off your bike....
  • 35
 The ShreddysBurg Address North Shore and seven gears ago, our fathers brought forth on these Continentals a new nation, conceived in libations, and dedicated to the proposition that all riders are created equal. We are engaged in great shredding and listening to Gwar, testing whether riders so dedicated can ride long enduros. With strong Crank Brothers and sisters, we honour those who have crashed before us. And especially those that tore off their Shadow shifters or scratched their stanchions on that rock on Schlayer, for they are the brave. And let us remember those that ate it, super hard, riding Clown Shoes with a hangover. And those who built, rock by rock, Pink Starfish and Ladies, be their trails punched or ever so fresh. And let us not detract from the Groms, who fly past us so freely on A Line yet eat it so hard on In Deep, who's roots we trust with our spines, 3C be praised. Here, we resolve to support James, and Naz, in their noble fight to keep the stiction from forming, and the pinch bolts from cracking, and the rebound from being turned down too far. And let us all run our trucks an extra hour tonight, in hopes that next winter, perhaps Lower Oilcan, and the Woodlot, and all the other low trails, will stay open all season.
  • 13
 I was woken up this Fathers Day to a 6 year old boy staring at my sleep deprived face with a grin Ear to Ear. " DAD can we go ride today?" To my delight it FINALLY has sunk into to his imaginative young mind he actually wants to go riding with out my coaxing! My fathers day can't be topped I thought to myself. AS I grab my double shot and sit to enjoy my daily read of PB, I see a sale like no other, a huge slashing of bikes, gear, and all that goes along with it! My sons eyes lighting up with every bike we look at, all he is thinking is "pedal. jump, berm, dirt, forest, etc" no cares or worries in the world "Dad can you buy me this? or that?". To have the mind of a child is where riding starts, as I think about, bills, mortgage, money, work, my 6 year old is just revelling in the ride to come today and how he can get dirty. "Happy Fathers Day DAD, lets go ride!" Music to my ears!
  • 13
 Richard!
Richard gets out of work at eight!
Wheels Turn.
And the path to Calgary Cycle ain’t straight!
Poor Richard’s legs Burn.
He pedals his bike so hard it begins to bob,
so much so he looks like a slob.
He’s headed down Rosedale,
to Calgary Cycles big Summer Sale.
His sprocket is broken, and his hardtail was stolen.
Poor Richard only delivers the mail!
If Richard doesn’t win, just pickle him like Polan!

Ben Franklin wrote Poor Richards Almanac in 1733, under the pseudonym Richard Saunders. The book contains the famous quote, “A penny saved is two pence dear,” often misquoted “A penny saved is a penny earned”.
Rosedale is a street not far from Calgary Cycle.
Polan is a German based organic vegetable company that began in 1969 with homemade pickled cucumbers.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Franlkin
www.polan.com/onas.html
  • 13
 I was gonna enter this contest... But then i got high.

On a more serious note, i need a new seat, i broke it by nutting myself after a jump, it hurt like hell. I even had to check if everything was still there: one, two, three, four, alright im good everything is there.
  • 31
 i like ketchup on my bicycle
  • 13
 Need some new bike parts
Prostitution isn't safe
I'll try this haiku

or (if that's a little much for the kiddies):

There once was a girl from Seattle
Whose bike was a-startin' to rattle
If Calgary Cycle
Can help her, that bike'll
Be blinged out and ready for battle.
  • 21
 Welcome to Calgary...If you can't keep it in your pants, keep it in your family...or at least your family pets.
  • 13
 Shiny new parts gleam through mud covered frames, smiles beaming from behind full face helmets. Calgary Cycle proudly supporting the alliance, it's all part of the glorious addiction we all suffer from. Get out and ride, your heart and soul will thank you. Thanks for keeping it real CC
  • 20
 Yeah for real... who won..
  • 1619
 I remember the last time I rode over to Calgary Cycle I was cruisin along on the sweet ride I had bought from them the year before. I didn't notice that up ahead of me there was an enormous pothole in the road (the head was blazin up off the dirt and I was movin with mad speed )I dropped into the pothole and pulled a backflip just for ***** and giggles before I landed it. The hole just seemed to go on and on, I skinnied about 500 ft of sewage pipe before I noticed a massive gator cornering a lost prisoner of war. I picked up speed, skinnied the gator as it arched its back to attack the P.O.W on the way up I grabbed his arm made the massive step up out of the pot hole. Outside the hole I gave the P.O.W. the directions to the nearest vetrans affairs office and continued on my way to the huge Calgary Cycle sale. Good thing to because I think the gator might have damaged my tire on the way out!
  • 147
 And this is why we don't do drugs kids...
  • 10
 Hahahah, yes and it is also why we wear helmets.
  • 109
 Calgary sucks hard But I'll try not to insult Cause I need money
  • 710
 I've been riding now for about six years, if you could see my bike you'd most likely be in tears. It turns out I can no longer use my tires, probably because I spent too much money on those bashguards... you know, the blackspires. For fifteen years I lived in Mexico but now I'm back, waiting, wishing to get back on some good ol' northeast singletrack. In Mexico it was so hard to find decent parts, I guess mountain biking just isn't all that big in their hearts. I sit, posed, ready to rip, at the top of the mountain, but first I need the parts to make this bike worth mountin'. So listen up! this is my plea, I hope you agree... I could definitely help my bike with some money, and hey! maybe then I'll be calling Calgary Cycle my honey.
  • 23
 The thing you need to remember is Alberta is just like Texas, only bigger -- better CC those guys down there if they want to see a real sale!
  • 14
 Rid'in around on my trike, i roll through pink bike, See an oportunity to win some money for a little poetry. Put my english skills on the line, for parts from CCs new product line. Writing every line, realising im a poet of no kind. Had a feeling i should've wrote a haiku, And if i win, i will need to thank you!
  • 14
 for just $200 dollars you can help a young riders, like me, who doesn't have money for the basic necesities, who can't even afford a proper downhill bikes, you can save a life today by donating $200 dollars to the "riders of tomorrow" fund. God Bless
  • 14
 I wanna make my rides more intense sadly, i don't have a plethora of cash from which to draw from. However, this competition could very well be the catalyst that indeed lights my component fire. With this cash i will be able to upgrade my bike. Its the rider not the bike, but a better equipped bike never hurt anyone. But what do I know? im just a kid
  • 22
 ha ha ha! I think all of Schism's comments are worthy of the money for sure. Good, good stuff.
  • 21
 thank ya sir!
  • 12
 i think calgary should have a dirt jam like damn that would be sick haha throwdown showdown in cowtown hahah please ! cheers Colt
  • 20
 Nobody, apparently....
  • 99
 I'm from Calgary, and I serve my country, GIMME!
  • 78
 If i print that Benjamin you think i could use that to by something fresh off of calgary cycle?
  • 44
 creativity isn't my forte
  • 33
 Why should I get the benjamins? It's simple. I'm not a rhyming fool.
  • 24
 one day i was riding my bike, then a bee flew into my mouth, and i was like what the! and then it stung my tung....then i bought a cromag director from CC.
  • 14
 so shouldn't it be like $102.14? Given the exchange rate and all 1 benji US is worth a little bit more up there in moose herding land. Now is Calgary the one where they all speak french? Razz
  • 12
 joplin seat post! think of all the rash areas I could achieve with that. hmmm?
  • 12
 Broken Bike, Broken Ankle, Moose claims another, Soon to ride again... A Haiku for you.
  • 23
 333'S you could add a little back beat to that and it'd be a hit.
  • 13
 WOOOOOOOOO THATS UNREAL, XTR CRANKSET FOR 199.99 THE NORMAL PRICE IS LIKE 800$$$ saving the benjamins Razz
  • 23
 who needs the money for for there bike?? my sisters bike works just fine
  • 35
 This hundo would put a delay on pulling money from student loans to buy parts from Calgary!
  • 23
 :insert last minute poem about bikes and a*s kissing here:
  • 13
 well. i dont think anybody on here is funny. you should just give me the money in spite of there failed efforts.
  • 13
 I need a sprocket cause my wallet fell out of my pocket while riding my bike to buy a pike so now i'm like Johnny Crockett!
  • 12
 Q:How do you make a tissue dance?

A: Put a little boogie in it.
  • 12
 Ok, so who won? When do we find out who won the prize?
  • 58
 Maybe you should think about putting the money towards a radio station that plays something besides country.
  • 10
 hahah love it!
  • 47
 Winners: When you get whatever you're buying, give it a good wash! Remember, it's been in Calgary.
  • 46
 Massachusetts is sucking me dry, Might as well give Calgary Cycle a try.
  • 72
 Massacusetts sucks a lot of men dry actually.
  • 14
 I also just spent money at Cyclepath, please don't let me commit such blasphemy again!
  • 25
 Dang! You got shocks, pegs - lucky! You ever take it off any sweet jumps?... You got like three feet of air that time.
  • 25
 ): ti em gnidnel enim srab ecin emos rof hsac taht esu dlouc I (read it backwards)
  • 12
 me cago en la leche!
  • 14
 At that price? I reckon it's time to pull the (X)TRigger and get me some of those cranks!
  • 24
 Beady eyes and flapping heads.
  • 14
 Wow reading some of these was almost as good as a nice bit of Stilton, although some were more like Baby Bell.
  • 14
 Does a minion make a guy go like a bat outta hell?
  • 25
 I have no hope in hell of winning this.
  • 13
 f*ck this i want 100$
  • 14
 Sharks have a week dedicated to Calgary Cycle.
  • 14
 Hahahah nice reference!
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