The weekend started early on ALL counts for me. On Friday I headed to Fontana to pre-ride the DH & Super D course. With only two races left, I am currently in good standings with the overall points for the Winter Series in both – Super D & DH. I wanted to be prepared for…
Category: Downhill
This race was the 2nd to the last of the 6 part series. You would have to race at least 5 of the 6 to qualify for the overall points. So far, I’m the only one in my category that has raced at least 4 and the next race on the 22nd would make it…
From the Champ herself, Kim Finch talks about her race experience from the Shimano Winter Series #4 There was not much time for training for this race with all the rain, but I did manage to get a couple rides in. I mostly focused on injury recovery from a prior race. We got in early…
We just received the P30 chainguide and bashguard from Gamut. The P30 is lightweight unit and is specific to a 36T chainring. It can be used on all gravity disciplines such as Dual Slalom, 4X, Freeride and Slope Style however we are going to utilize it for downhill racing. I’ll be mounting the P30…
This was race #4 of a 6 part series at Fontana. What’s neat is we’re starting to see familiar faces of other racers and we’ve made a few friends here and there. On Friday I was able to take one practice run right after the marked the DH course. One run just isn’t enough to…
I met the reps of POC at Interbike 2008. New products for 2009 from this Swedish company and makers of snow/ski products are BIKE gear. To be more specific – gear that would cater to the extreme side of bikes, such as Downhill (DH), Freeriding, park and BMX. For our testing we received body armor…
We are finished with the third race in the SRC winter series! The weather was cold and wet both Saturday & Sunday. I chose to run the Super D race and the Downhill race this week and let the XC race to Priscilla, David & Eric. Saturday morning we headed up to the top for…
Well, this weekend was not The Moe’s weekend. The weather played a major factor on my decisions on what to wear. For SuperD, I didn’t think it was going to be cold so I raced with just my Limited Edition Team MtnBikeRiders.com jersey, boy was I freezing before my name was called! I also goofed…
This past weekend’s race was needless to say – WET. Our forecast in SoCal called for rain and boy did we get it all weekend long. Saturday I opted out of the XC race. I decided to take pictures of XC and save my legs for the Super D later in the day. While…
A KHS Lucky 7 that is! Our good friends from KHS Bicycles have given us a Lucky 7 to review and race. The Lucky Seven happens to be the KHS Factory Team weapon of choice for the Fontana Series, they choose this bike because of the infamous “wall”. The Lucky 7 comes with a 36/24t…