Nothing specific about this post, but there were a few things I wanted to share. Bad landing from a jump. Hurt my nads that day, just look at the facial expression. How to tighten a threadless headset. 2 Bike Companies that went kaput! Woodstock Bikes and Ibex Bikes. Too bad…they made some great products, reasonably…
Month: February 2010
Road rash? Bruises? Scrapes? If you mountain bike then you probably have a few good crash stories yourself. I’ve probably got more crash stories than the average lady out there. Some may say that perhaps I should work on my technical skills, but I’d like to think I just ride pretty dang hard and fast…
After years of seeing me struggle to wrench on my bike with a pathetic bike stand that simply lifts the rear of the bike a few inches off the ground, my better half surprised me with a new Workstand for our anniversary. With advise from our family friend and rider extraordinaire Jer, she bought me…
If you weren’t sure what Super D is, its basically a mix of XC and DH racing. The last Super D course was designed by Eric Carter (PRO Everything), which meant it was pretty challenging. In fact, some of us were talking and agreed that it was more difficult than the DH course. I would…
With three children under 5 years old it has become exponentially more difficult to get out of the house for rides. Over the three day Valentine’s Day/Chinese New Year’s three day weekend, I was able to get out for about 40 miles which is quite a bit for me. The weekend started when my office…
Suspension tuning is as diverse as the disciplines of mountain biking. Some people constantly tune and tweak while others are afraid to touch the settings on these magical little items. Well, if you fall into the later camp Fox has developed a website to help you do an initial setup of your forks and shock. …
Last night I hosted “Shop Night.” This gave Moe the opportunity to finish up the final details on the Sette Vexx DH frame. We had planned on getting this bike completed at an earlier date, but due to injuries, and chain guide issues, it was pushed back. However, last night Moe got this thing dialed…
This past Sunday, Kim, Tony, Steve, Josh and myself met up at Aliso and Woods Canyon Wilderness park to ride what I consider one of the best Orange County All-Mountain rides. We set out from the lower lot at 9am to pedal up Meadows to Top of the World park, descended Telonics, crossed Laguna Canyon Road to pedal up Willow Canyon Road, Descend T&A, cross Laguna Canyon Road again, ascend (walk mostly for me!) Stair steps and finally descend Rock-It to head back out to the car.
U.S. Mountain bike racer extraordinaire Pua Sawicki has a dream and is asking for the mountain bike communities help. Pua’s goal is to qualify for and race in the Olympics. The problem is that Pua needs to race the World Cup series races in Europe in order to earn enough points to qualify for a spot in the 2012 Olympics.
Well just like a bad husband, I forgot our special day, our anniversary. It was 3 year ago in January 2007 that Moe and I launched MtnBikeRiders.com. Over the years we’ve expanded our staff by adding folks like Jeremy Yang and Joe Solancho. RL, Jeremy, Gary Fisher and Moe RL, Joe, RC of Mountain Bike…