Archive for May, 2008

Ride Report: Aliso Woods with a flock of friends

This Saturday’s group ride let us to one of our favorite trails, Aliso Woods. We were joined by some of the regulars as well as some not so regular folks. One of the things that made this ride interesting for Priscilla was the fact that she was riding our newest demo bike the KHS [...]

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Stolen Bike Alert

If you live in the Tampa Area, please look out for this bike, it belongs to Jack “Ghost Rider” Sweeney’s wife:
Some dirty bastard scofflaw made off with my wife’s Biria yesterday from the employee parking garage at Tampa General Hospital.

If you spot this unique bike in or around downtown Tampa, please call the Tampa Police [...]

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Avid BB5 Mechanical Disc Brake on Sale

Pricepoint.com has a killer deal on some BB5’s. These normally retail around $60-$70, right now they’re only $34.98!

Priscilla and I both run Avid BB5’s on our bikes. In fact this is the same set that I’m using for my mechanical/Hydraulic feel experiment.
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Happy Mother’s Day!

To all the hot moms out there, you know who you are! Happy Mother’s Day!

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Some link love…

Our friend Jay (trial n errors) wrote an article over at Evomo about his first xc race.
I’ve been able to talk with his wife Cheryl through our myspace accounts. Super great couple and and I was really encouraged to hear that she decided to enter her fist xc race along with Jay!
Here’s an excerpt:
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My 3 Favorite Words…

… ok, not my favorite favorite, but they’re up there: “OUT FOR DELIVERY”. I saw that this morning when I hopped online to check the status of my shipment. I expected to see these three words and I was not disappointed.

C’mon. You know you like seeing those words too
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What Happened to Spring?

It’s not quite summer yet on the calendar but the plants on the trail beg to differ. Just a few short weeks ago RL was playing peek-a-boo with the camera by hiding in the overgrown mustard weeds that had invaded our local trails.

Lance was riding off onto some hardpacked singletrack with his [...]

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Mid-Week Ride Report

Since I work about a mile from the Aliso Woods trail head, I went ahead and did my weekly after work ride through it. The first climb, Cholla is pretty tough that includes steep switch backs, and a rock garden. On my way up Cholla I tried to maneuver around a pot hole like [...]

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Mountain Biking Related Innuendos

Certain terms in mountain biking could be considered as an innuendo by a person that might be walking by while you and your buddies are talking shop.
For example…
“Oh I like the 5 inches…”
“I thought it was going to be bigger, but when I say on it, it felt just right”
“I’ve got 7 inches in [...]

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Thursday Tech Tip: Going tubless without going broke

If you had the money you can easily convert over to a tubeless tire and wheel system with UST wheels and tires or you can use Stan’s. But if you’re p’oh and broke like me, you can do the following for about $10….

*Disclaimer, do this at your own risk.
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