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Priscilla has this technique down pretty packed. The reason why its important for your to get off your saddle when you ride is to basically re-position your weight over the center of the bike.

The idea is to get your butt behind your bottom bracket. So if you’re going down a rock bed or a steep boulder, then get off your saddle and get behind it. This also redistributes your weight further back which will help prevent you from going over the bars.

If you don’t get behind your saddle when going down a hill, this could happen.

Oh yeah, forgot to mention this. If you are going down any hills, lower your seat. It makes it easier to get behind it and it helps lessen the chances of you hitting your nuts or your va-jayjay if your a chick.

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Domino sent MtnBikeRiders.com the Men’s Mountain Bike Shorts to test. They are some nice looking shorts. The outside is composed of soft microfiber and leather infused with lycra which helps to relieve road rash. Domino makes a lot of road clothing(unless you like wearing lycra shorts while riding the trails… that’s not cool). So we’ll see how they do with their first foray to the mountain biking side of things.

Front view

Here are the specs:

* Durable, breathable, and remarkably soft, brushed micro fiber
* Polyester/LYCRA® liner with CoolMax® for moisture management and comfort
* CoolMax® sanitized chamois with multi-level technology improves comfort by relieving pressure points
* 6 pockets, including side cargo pocket, 2 secure zipper pockets with mesh lining double as cooling vents, 2 side hip pockets, rear waistband zipper pocket
* Adjustable nylon web side tabs for perfect fit
* Rear stretch panel for comfort and flexibility

Right leg: Zipper pocket and pocket w/flap

Rear view

Some stretchy material about 2 inches from the top, stretches horizontally across

Rear pocket, useful for keys?

Bright yellow chamois, good thing most people won’t see that

Writing on the chamois says: “Sanitized Coolmax Invista�?

For more info, check out the shorts here.

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Tag Wheels, our newest partner sent us a set of the FRX5 Disc Only Wheels.

We first met Mike Thomas of Tag Wheels at Sea Otter and I immediately fell in love with the idea of a virtually maintenance free wheel that are more durable then any wire wheelsets out there. Besides Tag Wheels brought back some nice memories of my old BMX wheels when I was a kid.

Here’s the specs:
Size 559mm / 26″
Weight (without hub) 1597 g
Tire Size 1.95″ to 2.5″
Max. Tire Pressure 45 PSI
Rim Tape Included
Color Flat Black
Tube Only Yes
Valve Type Schrader
Valve Hole Dia. 8mm
Decals FRX5 / DT SwissComplete Wheel Weights

Complete wheel weights include composite wheel and hub without QR, thru axle, thru bolt.
WHEELSET FRONT REAR
110mm / 20mm thru, 135mm / 12mm thru Grams = 1828 g
Ounces = 64 oz
Pounds = 4.0 lbs Grams = 1928 g
Ounces = 68 oz
Pounds = 4.2 lbs

Even the pros use Tag Wheels. Check out the Magura Flow Show from Sea Otter.

Check on the Tag wheels on the Woodstock 707:

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We’re slowly getting the parts together for the MtnBikeRiders.com Ultimate 29er build up. The next piece that came in this week is the frame. For this we contacted Vassago Cycles, a boutique frame manufacturer in south Orange County. Vassago Cycles is a relatively young company in the mountain biking world but they’ve taken a totally different approach to building 29ers. Oh, and they only build 29ers!

Vassago Cycles decided that instead of taking a 26″ frame and converting it into a 29er (the easy way out), they would start from scratch. This led to a lot of research and development with the culmination of their hard work being the Wet Cat geometry.

For our buildup, Vassago sent us the frumious Bandersnatch. The Bandersnatch, of Lewis Carroll fame, is a beautiful steel grey geared frame. Here is what Vassago has to say:

The legendary beast that travels the land at incredible speed, devouring everything in it’s path. If you didn’t pay attention in school, have no fear. It doesn’t really matter.

What you really need to know it the Bandersnatch is a gear-specific, 29er, with all the fixins at a price the wife will never even notice.

* Vassago 29er specific Rtech tubing
* Rtech, rust inhibitor treated tubing
* Gusseted headtube for extra strength
* Brazed vertical dropouts for extra strength
* Removable CNC V-brake mounts
* ISO standard disc brake mounts
* Vassago Wet Cat Geometry
* Portion of proceed donated to IMBA to fight trail closures

Check out some of the pictures below:

Head tube/Top tube/Down tube juncture

Bottom Bracket’s 68mm shell

Standard ISO Brake Tab

Vertical Brazed Dropouts

For more info on Vassago Cycles, click here.

For more info on the Bandersnatch, click here.

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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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