Sunday was the start of the Shimano Winter Series, put on by the Southridge Racing Company here in SoCal. This series includes, XC, Super D, 4X and DH. This is my second year competing as a beginner downhill racer, but it was my first time racing with the Airborne Taka. If you recall, Art Aguilar,…
Category: Downhill
This past Saturday my ride was at Turnbull Canyon in Whittier, CA. Since southern California has been pounded with rain and storm for the past several weeks, this would be the first dry weekend for riding… In addition majority of Orange County’s trails are still closed due to the rains. Needless to say there were…
One of my buddies, Alfredo, is new to the sport. But he’s not a big fan of pedaling up a hill. So I invited him out to ride some DH with me @ Fontana. This was his first time trying downhill and he was doing well…up to the point where a rock came out of…
The short answer would be yes. Here’s why. First of all, downhill mountain biking is more technical than XC mountain biking. Though there are some courses/trails that a would be downhiller could just ride his or her 5-6″ travel bike and do fine. But there are places where a longer travel bike, a downhill bike…
This past weekend was another fun filled weekend of riding. As you have read some of the previous posts from the other MtnBikeRiders’ staff, we’ve all had a fun filled weekend on two wheels. This past Saturday I took my friends, who I have been riding with on most of my Saturdays, to my backyard…
Since the recent posting of the the video with my brother Randy, and I riding in Fontana, I had received a ton of compliments on the quality, content and angles of the footage. One of the questions frequently asked, “who was filming?” To answer that, I said, “Randy and I would set up the camera,…
My daredevil brother, Randy was in town this weekend. I had offered to take him out downhilling because he’s never tried it before. I figured, he’d do just fine since he jumps out of perfectly working airplanes at 13,000 feet…for a living! So we drove out to Southridge in Fontana, Ca. and rode the same…
Technically he wasn’t bogarting it. But I thought the word was funny, the song is even better! But I’m happy to announce that I’ll be getting an opportunity to test ride/race the Airborne TAKA DH Bike. Team Racer, Art Aguilar has proven that you can get on the podium with the Taka. I’m hoping that…
This is a little bit late but why not… this past Saturday a group of my friends and I met at Whiting Ranch at 7:00am to go on our weekly Saturday ride. The weather in So Cal for the past few days has been fairly wet in the mornings with lingering low clouds until the…
I know is a little late, but I’ve been a little busy lately and my Internet connection at home sucks. Anyhow, the race weekend started with a terrible weather forecast: Hot. I know that some of you Arizonians are used to this kind of heat, but coming from a week that had highs on the…