The MtnBikeRiders.com Racing Team will be up in Mammoth racing in the Rock Shox Golden State Series Finals. Some of our team mates are already up there, and the rest of us will be having a super early drive. Our drive up will start way before the sun even thinks about coming up. We’ve got…
Month: September 2009
Editorial by David Sanderson Team racer extraordinaire Kim Finch qualified for Nationals this year, so a support squad formed and we were off to beautiful Colorado! I’ll let Kim re-tell the story from here… I finally qualified for the US Cycling Nationals, to be held at Sol Vista Bike Park in Granby, Colorado! I was…
If I’m riding super early in the morning, I’ll grab a Monster Java and drink about half of before the ride. It helps to wake me up. But if its cool outside, I’d rather make some espresso and drink that. However, in the afternoon or before a night ride, I’ll get myself a Monster LO-Carb…
One of our readers, “WiLdMaN” sent in some photos of his own Sette Venom. He basically parted out his DH bike and built up the Venom. Check out the dual crown fork! Not quite sure what the build specs are, but I’m hoping he would chime in and leave a comment with it.
I decided to do a small run of a new design for MtnBikeRiders.com. Tell me what you think. I was pretty excited about it, so I tried it on for the photos. My camera settings were kinda off, but the blue is supposed to be more of a deep royal rather than that teal you…
Last week I posted a photo of the new KHS 650b 606. KHS Bicycles finally updated their site with the spec sheet: Frame 650B” Full Alloy, Hydroformed Tubing, Gussetted Headtube Fork X-Fusion Velvet, 650B Headset Cane Creek A-Headset 1-1/8″ Rims Weinmann XM280 Disc Specific, Doublewall, Black, 650B Hubs Alloy 6-Bolt Disc, QR, Cassette Tires Kenda…
The folks of Sette USA sent us the new Sette Vexx DH frame to build up and review. Here’s some pics of the frame right out of the box. I literally picked it up from UPS, drove down the street to look for a patch of grass and took some pics. You can still see…
Not sure if you have been keeping up with the news in SoCal, but we’ve got some major fires going on right now that has wreaked some havoc on our air quality. According to AQMD.gov, the current air quality is at “Unhealthy” meaning they recommend you don’t do anything other than sit. Its a bit…
Editorial by David Sanderson, As Team MtnBikeRiders prepares for the Golden State Series Finale at Mammoth Mountain this coming weekend, we found that Kim’s report from race #3 had gone missing. So I dug through the archives and found it. The following is Kim Finch’s race report from #3 of the Golden State series, better…