Month: May 2009

After a long hard week at work and fighting through the Friday traffic, there’s nothing more satisfying than coming home to a package waiting at your front door, especially a big box.  This Friday I came home to a package from… Soul Cycles.  What’s in the box?  The Dillinger 29er EBB (Eccentric Bottom Bracket) frame in Pearl Green,…

On Saturday Joe Sizzzle and I decided to shuttle Santiago Oaks. If you’ve ever been to Oaks, you know that there’s some sweet single track on top of the mountain. But in order to get there, you’ll need to climb some steep hills. Since climbing is my least favorite part of mountain biking, Joe and…

… and will be offering a VPP 29er. No worries. We forgive yah. Now, some clarification is in order with regards to this line: It’ll weigh a whole lot less than some other bikes of similar configuration. Should I be holding out hope for a carbon VPP 29er? Santa Cruz already has a beautiful carbon…

RL Policar-The Animal shares his experience during the 2009 Traverse. Read his report and you’ll be amazed by his strength. I swear man, its like reading about Paul Bunyan or Hercules or something big and strong…I would like to add that The Animal is a very humble guy. The whole team as well as strangers…

I headed down to Serfas to check out their bicycle swapmeet. Even though I had every intention to get there early, I was not able to make it until 10:30. Still, there were a lot of people there and a lot of vendors: There were frames, complete bikes, forks, vintage bikes, low riders, rims, clothing……

Early Saturday morning RL, Ner and I met at my house.  We were going to cheer on our teammate Eric “The Animal” Hunner as he was racing in The Traverse.  What’s the Traverse?  Here’s a brief description:   Approximately 43 miles with 8K feet of elevation gain.  For those that are familiar with the Santa…

As usual, we kicked back with the guys from Evomo at Sea Otter. They showed us their new stuff: New jacket with their raised logo and a hood! New fitted hat with their raised logo. And as promised, they had the Molotov T-shirt which was designed by contest winner, Brent Muir. The only thing I…

Here’s your chance to win a very unique mountain bike made by Swiss Bike. The Swiss TX mountain bike has to be the most interesting bike out there. It folds! Specs: click HERE. So why are we giving away this bike? Orginally MtnBikeRiders.com was supposed to review the Swiss TX, but it was later decided…