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On Saturday I gathered the troops and decided to shuttle Santiago Oaks. Mind you anyone can easily pedal up the top of the ridge to enjoy the mild downhill sections, but we didn’t feel like climbing, so we loaded up the cars to start our adventure.

This ride gave me the opportunity to try out the Drift HD 170 helmet cam.

By the way, Art and I were riding our Airborne Takas. Love that bike!

As you can see the Drift does a pretty good job in capturing the action. I had it set to 780p and what you see is the final product of 1 file conversion and video editing. The first thing I had to do was convert the MOV file to AVI to make it work with my editing software. After it was all said and done, I uploaded it to Youtube.

This shot was taken before our second run. Dan decided to take us on a different route that lead to our Goonies adventure! You can’t tell, but I’m actually smiling!

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It was about three months ago when teammate Wes Castro shattered his hip during a practice DH run on one of the segments of the 2010 Winter Series. Since then our Team has been planning a fund raiser/raffle to assist with Wes’ medical bills. In conjunction with The Path bike shop (located in Tustin, CA) a BBQ & raffle was held at their retail store today at 1:00 pm.

Earlier in the morning we had a big group ride…and I mean BIG. Meeting at the Albertsons’ parking lot in the City of Orange were 40+ riders. This was a combination of members and friends of MtnBikeRiders.com, The Path and STR (SocalTrailRiders.org) – one BIG family within the mountain biking community. Through our ride, we made many stops to regroup. We had riders from of all skill levels but no one was left behind. We did a couple of loops within Santiago Oaks Park and Irvine Regional Park. The ride was a total blast!!!

Below are pictures from today’s ride.

Onto the first climb:

Making our way up on another climb:

Doc Thunda and I:

Top of the 2nd B:

Ridin’ with style:

Top of 3rd B before our descent:

With teammates – Animal, Kim & Tony Finch:

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Last weekend some of my teammates (David, Kim and Tony) and I headed to the Santiago Oaks for some fun. We were joined by our friends Dan, Albert and Joshua. Following the heavy rains earlier in the week, we waited until the weekend to give the trails a chance to dry. Unfortunately some areas at the lower part were still pretty muddy.

Oaks is always fun. This time we stopped at the play area to watch David “el Guapo” Sanderson put on a clinic and show us his jumping skills. Below is a short video our ride. Enjoy!

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This past Sunday, Tony and I decided to take advantage of The Path Bike shop’s Sunday ride.  The ride location changes week to week so be sure to check The Path Blog for the current week.  It’s a no-drop ride and has riders from every skill level but typically takes on at least intermediate terrain to keep the more advanced riders satisfied. This week’s ride was through Santiago Oaks and was a great way to spend the last day before the rains came in. Here’s some video from that ride, the wide-screen scenes were shot with the Vholdr Contour HD 1080P camera, set to 720p and 60 frames per second. The other footage was shot with my point-and-shoot digital camera. I apologize for the lack of audio, so throw on some tunes when you watch this.

Also The Path happened to be hosting a Pivot/BH bikes demo that several riders got to take advantage of.  It was a well-stocked demo with the whole Pivot line in several sizes. I’ve taken advantage of a Pivot Demo before and they are awesome bikes!

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I’m one of those fortunate souls with the week off from Christmas to New Year’s and decided to take advantage by getting in a ride today.  I hate riding alone, but I couldn’t conjure anyone up for a ride this afternoon and I’ve also been meaning to go to The Path bike shop in Tustin for a few weeks to exchange some parts.  So I decided to knock a few couple things off the to do list, loaded up the truck, ran a couple errands, headed over to the shop, and finally to play at Santiago Oaks.  I was hoping to capture some more video on the Vholdr ContourHD 1080p.  I took some video with the point-and-shoot and hoped to edit it with the helmet camera video to make a sick video.  Unfortunately, in a bone-headed move, I didn’t charge the ContourHD.  Since I had some time to kill, whilst doing laundry, I decided to throw together a little video of the point and shoot footage.  Santiago Oaks was in pretty good shape today, a few new ruts have formed from the rain, but for the most part, traction was excellent.  The sun was shining and a slight breeze kept the sweat at bay.

I know this is just footage of an average joe, riding a typical trail, but take it for what it is, and ENJOY!

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