Not sure if you already know this, but if someone were to say “Ya I’d have a beer with him” that usually means the person in question is cool enough to hang out with. Here’s what I mean by this. There’s people in your life that you would want to spend more time with and…
Month: October 2011
Not sure if you can relate to this, but if you’re out riding you get to a certain section of the trail where you want to either get a video or photo of you coming down, jumping or doing something cool so you can use it for your next profile picture on Facebook. Ya you…
As I mentioned a few days ago, Torker Bicycles sent over the new Skookum for us to review. After assembling it, I was ready to take it out on its maiden voyage at the wold famous Fullerton Loop. • Lightweight alloy frame in 4 sizes. • Suntour XCT 80mm travel fork. • SRAM/SR Suntour 24…
They just arrived this morning. Big thanks to those that took advantage of the Pre-Order, they’ll be shipping out later this week!
With more and more 5-6″ travel bikes becoming mainstream in mountain biking, using these longer travel bikes for longer rides are becoming easier. Take for example my weekend. Between Dan Burdett, our friend Eric Young and I, we each had 5-6″ travel bikes. We rode up a bunch of climbs just so we can bomb…
Did you know that Torker Bicycles is breaking into the mountain biking game? In recent years, Torker has focused on commuter/utility/leisure bicycles. So it was a great surprise to me when I saw them introduce the new Skookum. Here it is in the box! I’ll be assembling the Skookum in the next few days and…
No matter how much you stay away from it, you still want to go back! I don’t know about you, but as much as I love my 5-8″ travel bikes, there’s just something alluring about a beautifully made steel frame mountain bike. Prime example, a Soma Analog, simple and classy lines has me wanting it…
A few months ago we got some lights to test out. Global Gear – Nocturn Lights I did a quick review of them but it was summer and bike lights weren’t really something I gave much thought about. There was plenty of sunlight available. Well it’s now fall and there’s gonna be less and less…
Here’s another thing we’re working on, its our official MtnBikeRiders.com hats. The logo will be embroidered on a Pacific Headwear 404M. Below is a mockup of the hat. We’ll be doing a limited run of these hats, we’ll let you know once its available.
Meet Emanuel, he wrote to me a while back to see if I’d be willing to ship out a Blue Tuxedo Jersey to Greece because he really wanted one super bad. After thinking about it, I figured this would be good for MtnBikeRiders.com to have some representation in another country. So I shipped it out…