Year: 2007

Woke up this morning at 6:00 am in the morning. The thermometer outside read 29 degrees. Wait, this is Southern California, right? We were supposed to meet at the trail at 7:00am, the sun started to shine, I went back to read the thermometer: 31 degrees. Still, I’ve been anxious to ride the Gary Fisher…

I traded my Giant TCR for a Cannondale Jeckyll 800. I always wondered about that weird ass looking fork, now I’m gonna have a chance to ride one. I heard that the advantages of riding with a Lefty Fork are that the fork is stiffer, lighter and it maneuvers better. So far, I dig the…

Ahrens Bicycles just sent us the WiseCracker Bottle Opener to perform a review. Here’s what they have to say about the bottle opener: Mountain biking and beer go together hand-in-hand. The WiseCracker bottle opener is your key to opening pure liquid enjoyment after any ride. No need to fumble around looking for your keychain opener…just…

When I first got into mountain biking way back when, I started off with a very simple entry level mountain bike. This bike was nothing special, it had V-brakes, 26×1.95 tires, bottle cage, single wall rims, bar ends and a boat load of fun! You see, I think there’s value in purchasing an entry level…

I met Joe Polk of MTBCast.com back at Interbike 06. Pretty cool guy, in fact he even helped me resize some of my photos that I was taking of the show. Thanks Joe! When we launched MtnBikeRiders.com, I contacted Joe about it and, what do you know, he mentions us. Cool, eh? So check out…

I was on the Bike Skills website and found that they have tons of videos! They cover things about riding in rock gardens, jumping, riding steeps and many more. “How to Jump-Learn the basics of jumping from jump superstar Chris Duncan! ” Watch it HERE

Both bikes look pretty sharp, right? So if you look at them closely and examine the bike part by part, and saw that perhaps the only real difference between these bikes would be the fork and its price. What if I said that one of them is $500 cheaper…but remember, they are spec’d just about…