Author: RL Policar

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).

Can I get a show of hands of people that do and people that don’t? If you’re not sure how to do stuff, leave a comment asking us what it is you would like to learn, and we’ll do our best to come up with a tutorial for you.

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If you’re not mechanically inclined or you just don’t have time to to work on your own bike, then the next best thing to do would be to take it to your local bike shop and have one of their mechanics work on your ride. What’s great about a shop working on your bike is…

If you missed out on the fun at Fontana last weekend, here’s a glimpse of what we experienced. I do want to say thanks to our friend Gabe “Thunda” Preda for all his help during the races. He took care of videos and photos and he even brought food and beer! Now that’s a good…

Rather than boring you with too many details of our weekend, here’s the nitty gritty from my point of view. Camped at Fontana on Saturday night. Got way too cold, won’t do that again. Got about 4 practice runs, on run 2 flatted at the beginning. Walked 35 mins back to base camp. Race day,…

Today is Priscilla’s birthday! I would like to take a few moments to share about Priscilla. I’m am very grateful to be married to her. Not only is she a fantastic mountain bike rider/racer, but she’s also an amazing wife. She’s given me 3 beautiful daughters in which all 3 has some of her characteristics.…

This weekend is our final race of 2009 with Southridge. Donny Jackson and his crew have done an incredible job in providing an awesome venue, atmosphere and professionalism that is way better than any other race organization I’ve ever seen. Races will be held on Saturday for XC and Super D. Then Sunday will be…

Sunday evening I invited some of our biking friends over to our home to enjoy some food, beer and cake. Yes, cake. We were basically celebrating Joe, Moe and Priscilla’s birthday. We had tons of pizza, wings, and beer. Dan Burdett’s wife, Becca, made these amazing Kahlua KupKakes that were out of this world! I…

We just received the Sette Ace to give it a quick review. MSRP:$999 Check out the SPECS. It boasts a list of parts such as SRAM X7, Avid Juicy, Truvativ, Mavic and much more. scheck it out mang, POPLOC, but in all honesty, I like this pop-lock better. 🙂