Last Saturday, we met up with Joe,Cons, Gabe “Dr. Thunda”, AV Dan along with The Animal and Lil’ Animal. We started at the lower parking lot of Aliso Woods. To reach the top of a trail called Cholla, we had to ride 2 miles on the main fire rode before ascending another 7-11 mins of…
Year: 2010
The Sette Ace was sent to us by the kind folks of Sette USA as a demo bike. Here’s a bit of info before we start with the review. Price: $999 from Pricepoint.com Specs: Frame Aluminum 7005 Size(s) Small (16.5″/42cm)/Medium (18.5″/47cm)/Large (20.5″/52cm) Fork Rock Shox Tora 302 Air (4.72″/120mm) w/PopLoc Rear Shock Rock Shox Monarch…
This past year Joe “J Sizzle” Solancho hooked up our team with a new team sponsor “Spenco“. If you haven’t heard of this company yet you MUST check them out. The company offered to send us some sweet gloves to ride with. I must confess that I initially was not impressed with the limited selection…
Editorial-RL Policar: As always, Kim Finch had a stellar weekend at the races in Fontana, Ca. Read up on her adventures! Well here we are back in Fontana, CA for a whole new year! As I concluded last season, I have moved to the CAT2/Sport categories in all disciplines. I am going to mix up…
Hey Southern California Mountain bikers, my Soul Cycles Dillinger 29er Singlespeed bike was stolen from the Whittier CA area. The bike was custom built and the frame is not very common. If anyone sees it posted on CL or ebay, please email me @ cycle_moe@yahoo.com.
The winter holidays came and went all too quickly for me, without enough of a break from the last race I did in November. I had dreams of an off-season three months long. The 1st race of the 2010 winter series was approaching quickly and I decided to treat this as training for the bigger races from March to May.
On Jan 10th I headed out to Fontana for one last practice run and my first DH race in the sport category. After a few mishaps in my first couple races, I managed to finish out 2009 with some success in the beginner group and decided it was time to move into sport.
I was always amazed by Team Racer, David Sanderson’s level of fitness. When he rides his bike, its like his legs have small engines in them. I’ve never seen the guy tired or worn out from a ride or race and guess what. He actually trains for racing! Last year, I didn’t bother training at…
Last night Priscilla and I sat down and scheduled our races for the next few months. We wanted to make sure that our races don’t conflict with family plans, church events and kid stuff. Luckily Kim Finch gave us a list of mountain biking races and events for 2010. With that in hand we were…
We received the e thirteen LG1+ chain guide as a test sample a few months back and I’ve been testing it ever since. This was mounted onto my Sette Venom. This bike is primarily used as my DH bike and has seen racing action at Fontana and Mammoth Mountain. Specs: PRODUCT DETAILS Includes the enhanced…