Month: February 2011

Recently I have gotten the chance to use & review the Fūl Cargo hydration pack. The pack comes with a 2 liter bladder (a little smaller than I normally use, but still workable) and has a fold over type opening (as opposed to the twist cap like Camelbak) and a push/pull lockout on the bite…

Pulled this from the Airborne Bicycles Facebook Fan Page. There are some nice perks to becoming a Flight Crew member. Calling all Potential Airborne Flight Crew Members for 2011. The Call For Entries is now open! We’re looking for five new Flight Crew members to replace positions that rotated out at the end of 2010.…

Sette Torx ST-107 Bearing Cup Press was sent to us by the kind folks of Sette USA. Price: $54.98 Specs: The Sette Torx ST-107 Bearing Cup Press uses several enhanced and updated features in comparison to other headset presses on the market. The Torx ST-107 has a longer threaded rod and resized press-plates that accommodates…

This past weekend the Downhill Department of the MtnBikeRiders.com Race team was in attendance for race # 4 of the Shimano Winter Series hosted at Southridge, Ca. (phew, that was a mouthful). This was a fun race to be at because days before the event, southern California had received a good amount of rain. This…

Meet Neil Adams, long time friend of MtnBikeRiders.com. He’s also some sort of big shot sales manager for SixSixOne. This is Neil lining up for the XC race at Southridge this past weekend. Check out all the pink! Funny thing is, Neil and I geek out over the same style of clothing and odditees of…

Editorial-RL Policar: We asked our friend from a very large continent in the southern hemisphere, no not China…I said southern hemisphere. No not Antarctica…but Austrailia! Anyway, Brock Cremer to provided us a ride report for our readers since we thought our you folks would really dig it. Keep in mind that Brock us Australian, so…

This past week I traveled to Maui. After many trips to Hawaii, I was finally going to get to ride! Needless to say, I was super excited! Prior to my arrival, I’ve been in contact with West Maui Cycles which was located in Lahaina, the same city as our hotel. We arrived in Maui on…

The kind folks that you see on the side bar are people who support MtnBikeRiders.com. Make sure you check them out, buy something and tell your friends about them. Why? If you don’t bad things will happen to the Cullens…

This ARTICLE states that beer is good for athletes… beverage as an isotonic, vitamin-rich, no-additive beverage with natural regenerative powers that help athletes recover from a workout. Beer-Recovery actually works! In fact I have a friend that swears that beer works for both during and post workouts. He claimed that drinking during his workout helped…

This weekend was host for the 4th installation of the Southridge Winter Series. Heavy rain had preceded the race both the day and night before, even more had been forecasted for this Saturday. Luckily enough, the morning of the race was relatively free of rain but still fairly chilly. Due to the poor weather (I…