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My first real bike was actually a mountain bike. It was a 1993 GT Tequesta,
fully rigid, double butted tange chromoly! But it probably saw dirt a
handful of times. I realized that I was a roadie at heart. Hence, I got
into road cycling, got my skin tight lycra, shaved my legs, followed
professional European cycling and the tour de france religiously.

It wasn’t until about 2000, I started working for SunRace, which is a Taiwan
manufacturer of bicycle drivetrain, that I started really riding mtb. We
would have our friday “product testing” rides up in the Berkeley hills at
Redwood Regional park and Joaquin Miller Park. Then some of us would ride
in Marin, Mt Tam, China Camp. Then when the office moved up to Napa, we
would ride at Skyline park, where they had the XC world cup a few years
back. We’d also ride at Rockville. I also got to observe the SunRace/Santa
Cruz factory riders tear up the professional Norba and World Cup downhill
circuit. All that exposure to riding MTB helped me develop better technical
skills, especially when descending… But, let me tell you… I still
descend like i’ve got a parachute on…. yeah… not still the most
technical rider… Yes, i’m still a roadie at heart…. then I didn’t ride
mtb for a few years and moved down to Socal.

It wasn’t until I met jeremy at church and he told me that he was getting
into mtb. His excitement made me realize that I missed mtb… and I bought
a AL hardtail. It was a great chance for me to ride with some guys again.
plus I didn’t know anyone who’d ride road with me… =D Now, I ride more
mtb than road… go figure…

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This passed weekend the Policar and Ramirez Families went campin’ at O’neil Park in Orange County. Moe loaded up his pop-up tent trailer and we busted out our multi-room tent. Ofcourse everything we do has some bikes involved in it.

Armed with my Xtracycle and the Croozer Cargo Trailer, Priscilla with her Ibex towing our daughter on the Champion trailer bike, Moe on his K2 pulling his two daughters and Grace on her her KHS XC204, we headed out for a family ride. Oh, forgot to mention we brought our old man dog Chuy and Moe brought their little doggie, Hershey.

After a day of riding around and playing, we lit up the camp fire to get some smores cookin’ and some rum and coke flowin’

On Sunday it was time to pack up. Check out how the Seattle Sports Rack is attached to Moe’s trailer. It’s nicely holding his K2 Lithium.

All in all, a great weekend, kinda short, but it was alot of fun. It’s always great hanging out with Moe and his family. Our kids all get along very well and its great building life long memories.

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I have to share the most bizarre moment in my riding history!

This past thursday I went riding with my friend Danielle at the fully loop. It was a hot evening but we were having a good time. As we were riding along the trail we were taking an easy pace side by side, discussing high school sports. We were just chit chattin the way girls tend to do out there, nothing out of the ordinary.

So I glanced up, and looked straight ahead because I should be paying attention to what’s ahead of me. That’s always a good thing while mountain biking. And OH MY GOODNESS…there was this creature charging at me…it felt like it was running at 60miles an hour!!!! Ok, so it was no where near 60miles an hour but it was FAST. I thought I was going to die. This animal was running right at me with a purpose.

And what was this beast of an animal you ask? Was it a mountain lion? A coyote maybe? A wild hog? No.

It was a sheep!!!!! What in the world?!?!?! Yes a big, overgrown, furry sheep with a red leash on, charging head on towards me and he is not stopping!!!

You have to understand we live in the middle of a big city. No farms except for at the local high school. So this sheep on the trail is rather peculiar. The strangest animal I have seen on the trail is a horse and there is one family that keeps a llama as a pet. But aside from that it’s just dogs, squirrels and cute fluffy bunnies. That’s it.

So as this animal is charging at me, with my cat like reflexes I slammed to a stop, (it was a good thing we weren’t riding very hard), and i screamed bloody murder (I am a girl, that’s what i do). All I could think is he is not stopping and this is going to really hurt!!!

By this time Danielle was out of harms way riding closer to the left side of the trail, near the fence. Lets just say she wasn’t throwing herself in front of me to save me or anything. She said she was trying to figure out what it was. All this time she was pondering over whether it was a mountain lion or llama. She was very confused.

So it turns out the sheep didn’t want to eat me afterall. That animal darted to my right and ran past me. And I think I heard him chuckling. For whatever reason that darn overgrown rodent stopped at a dog behind us and a guy grabbed his leash. The sheep owners finally caught up and beat him (just kidding animal lovers!!!). Nah, I only looked back long enough to see them get ahold of him again.

I was counting my blessings as I breathed a sigh of relief. Whoo! That was close. Danielle and I were laughing so hard! Dangerous sheep on the trails, who knew?!!?! Hahahaha.

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Do you have problem with being stinky? Do your feet smell? What about your balls, do they stink?

Check out my review of the Crystal Stick Body Deodorant.

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What’s the best way to beat a stubborn bolt or nut? Leverage!

That’s right boys and girls, in order for you to make that bolt budge is to use a bit more leverage than what you currently have with your tool.

So here’s what you do, take an old seat post, conduit or any type of pipe.

Slide it over your tool. Here I’m using an 8mm allen on a crank puller. The cranks were stubborn so I had to use this seat post to get it to move. What’s cool is I could just slide the bar further out if I needed more leverage.

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