From “THE ANIMAL” Eric Hunner… Race day I was up really early as usual checking the weather, light rain. Rain was a good thing, we rode MT. SAC the day before and it was dry and dusty, transitioning into cracked dirt and rock hard singletrack. Mix the two together with a little rain and we…
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My day started at 5am. Excited and couldn’t quite sleep, I tossed and turned in bed. Around this time I received a text message from RL. Apparently he couldn’t sleep either and was surprised when I returned his text message. I started getting ready, getting my things together. Approximately an hour and a half later,…
22 years after his debut into Mountain Bike racing, David “Tinker” Juarez is still fast as ever. Tinker a renowned BMX and Cross Country rider has a slew of accomplishments that spans over two decades. This weekend Tinker raced at the SC Velo Cross Country Challenge. At 47 yrs old, he literally smoked the competition. Up…
During the race we had a great team of Paparazzi to provide coverage of the event. Kym (Gangsta Joe’s Fiance) as well as a good friend Jon Ruiz, and I were out there working hard on taking some photos and videos. Here’s some of Jon’s work. He took this while he was across the lawn…
My day started off brewing coffee at 4:00 am, not uncommon during the work week, but probably not the best thing to do before a race. I could not sleep. I kept turning the news on checking the current weather conditions. The night before, the news said it going to start raining at 4:00am on…
First and foremost, the MtnBikeRiders.com Racing Team did an excellent job in yesterday’s event. We had 4 of our racers place on the podium and represented the site very well. So let me start off with getting ready for the race. Since I wasn’t racing, I wanted to make sure that our athletes were taken…
Team MtnBikeRiders.com is making its debut at the Triple Crown Series in Bonelli Park, Ca. 4 of our riders should be racing today as well as the infamous “The Moe.” Here’s today’s race roster: Priscilla Policar-XC Eric Hunner-Single Speed Joe “Gangsta” Solancho-XC Kim Finch-XC Moe Ramirez-XC As I’m typing this, Priscilla is still asleep, that’s…
In August we posted the return of the Red Bull Rampage. This weekend The Evolution is set to go off near Virgin, Utah. New and old (from previous Rampage events) riders will be showing off their freeriding style, hucking off huge boulders, gaps and man-made stunts. Here are the confirmed riders: Andrew Taylor Alex Prochazka Ben Boyko Brandon Semenuk Cam…
XC racing is not my cup of tea, but since I built a race bike, I might as well give it a shot. I am not podium material, my training is rather limited by an active family life, so my goal is to finish the race and not to finish last. Here’s my racing machine,…
One of our long time riding buddies, and Service Tech Exgtraordinaire at Jax Bicycles in Fullerton Ca., Robert Plumb, but I like to call him Robert-oh, headed out to Trek World and wrote up a nice report on some of the things he saw there. Trek World 2009 I was selected to got to trek…