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Last Saturday Dainese hosted the Freedom Riders Video Showing. With the help of the kind folks of SDG, Sette, Pricepoint.com, and ODI, we had tons of stuff to raffle. MtnBikeRiders.com also donated about a dozen shirts for the event. DB Media Group provided the audio visual support by setting up a projector and screen for our viewing pleasure.

We had about 20 mountain bikers of all levels and backgrounds at the showing. Art Aguilar, the coolest guy at Dainese, was instrumental in getting this showing to take off. He pulled some strings at the D-Store and made a few calls and was able to secure our spot in the store for the movie.

After the movie, we held a raffle for all the goodies we received. These items included grips from Sette, and ODI, saddles from SDG, a Hydration Pack from Sette, T-Shirts from MtnBikeRiders.com. Dainese threw in some gloves, knee/shin guard and the grand prize for the event was a Dainese Raptor Full Face Helmet.

Max “Sam Hill” Russo winning something cool!

Art Aguilar won a pair grips, woohoo!

Priscilla won the grand prize, Dainese Full Face Raptor Helmet. She’s begging me to take her downhill riding ASAP!

In closing, MtnBikeRiders.com would like to thank all those who showed up, and the kind folks that donated products for the showing. I can’t forget about our friends at Dainese, Art Aguilar and Tom Monroe (Big Boss Man at the D-Store ). Thanks again guys for making this happen. So if you didn’t make it, here’s what you missed.

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We gathered up the crew and invited some friends to try out downhill riding at the World Famous Southridge course in Fontana, Ca. We were joined by my former Downhill Race Rival/Buddy Johnny Dow as well as Tim Scissors, Mark West and Val M.

This was Priscilla’s second time riding DH and she has remarkably improved since her first time. She was more confident and was even building up speed as she attacked certain portions of the trail. For the most part it was Tim, Mark and Val’s first time out on a DH course. Some of the stuff we did can be intimidating, but when you have a great support system, anyone can be successful.

Memorial Day DH session at Fontana from RL Policar on Vimeo.

I took a spill that morning, my front tire went into a run and I tried to ditch the bike run, but since I was on a descent, I lost my footing, tumbled, hit my head and right shoulder, tumbled, and came to a sliding stop. I sat there for a few seconds, took inventory and found that I was ok. My Sette Impact Suit really protected me. Thanks to the Dainese Raptor helmet…I’m still here!

Everyone else did really great. In fact you can see all the photos from this weekend, courtesy of Joe Solancho, HERE.

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