Arrived Saturday morning to just some AWESOME weather. Got bikes off loaded, gear up & catch shuttle truck to the top of the hill. I see the same smiling faces and warm welcome we have come to expect from the SRC crew! Now it’s time to see what Donny has put together for us. Start…
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RL Policar is an avid mountain biker and the Editor In-Chief of MtnBikeRiders.com and BikeCommuters.com. Between the two sites, he's published well over 4,000 articles (and growing).
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One of my pet peeves in life would be riders not calling it. What I mean by calling it is the mere courtesy of letting riders know which side you’ll be passing. This practice has long been used in road biking, and I remember when I was a young pup riding a road bike, I…
So there I was riding my mountain bike through some wilderness that was known to be chock full of crazy and dangerous animals. Priscilla was TRYING to keep up with me on the trail and I often had to stop, then go back down the trail to check on her. Then during a long climb…
This weekend is the Rock Shox Golden State Downhill Race in Woodward West. Our DH crew (minus me) will be out there in full force ready to tear it up. Joe Sizzzle Kim “Champ” Finch Tony “Wizard” Finch Last but not least, the Angel of Death himself…THE MOE! They’ll be showing off the new Team…
We gathered up the crew and invited some friends to try out downhill riding at the World Famous Southridge course in Fontana, Ca. We were joined by my former Downhill Race Rival/Buddy Johnny Dow as well as Tim Scissors, Mark West and Val M. This was Priscilla’s second time riding DH and she has remarkably…
At Sea Otter, we met up with our friend Steve Boehmke and while we chatted he gave me a small tub of a new chamois ointment called Okole Stuff, this is endorsed by World Famous Racer,Pua Sawicki and made by Team Mata LLC. How do you pronounce it? Okole (oh koh lay). Hawaiian word for…
MtnBikeRiders.com received several bottles of SportLegs. Basically I wanted to have our race team use them in a real race setting. We had the opportunity to test how these pills worked during the Shimano Winter Series as well as Counting Coup and Traverse. Cost: $26.95 for a bottle of 120 capsules. What’s in it? Here’s…
We received the WOOdman BILL LTI FZQT Hub to test and I recently had it built onto a wheel by our very own Tony “Wizard” Finch (thanks Tony!). Specifications Material : CNC-machined 6061 T6 aluminum anodized in black Includes : V-Cup Q and V-Cup T Holes : 32 or 36 What’s cool about this hub…
On Saturday Joe Sizzzle and I decided to shuttle Santiago Oaks. If you’ve ever been to Oaks, you know that there’s some sweet single track on top of the mountain. But in order to get there, you’ll need to climb some steep hills. Since climbing is my least favorite part of mountain biking, Joe and…