It’s 10:26pm on Friday night and Jeremy, Moe and myself are about to get on the road for 6 hours to Sea Otter! Stay tuned all weekend as we provide event coverage as well as some great interviews we lined up.
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I decided to challenge the Fezzari tutorial on adjusting the rear derailleur. I figured that I’ll see if their technique is better than mine or if they are similar at all. So what I did was tune the rear derailleur of the Fezzari Alta Peak with my technique, and of course that worked just beautifully.…
Yeah I’ve done my laundry, and even started to pack my stuff. But from what everyone has been telling us, bikes is the way to get around Laguna Seca. So I’ll be bringing my Ibex/Xtracycle, Moe will be mounted on the Woodstock 707 and Jeremy on his trusty Gary Fisher X Cal. The bummer part…
I’ve been wanting to come up with an article chock full of trail etiquette reminders for our readers to benefit from. So far I’ve got a few good ones. But I wanted to add a few more. Feel free to leave a comment to add your own. 1. If you’re going to be late to…
Everyone knows that Friday the 13th is a day of bad luck. So I’ve compiled a list of precautionary steps to ensure that your ride on this famous day is a safe one. Ring your Bike Bell-The sound of bells drives away flat tires because they’re afraid of the loud noise. BLUE To protect yourself…
Random thoughts coming up…. Working at an LBS I run in to quite a bit of people that are the “I Used To’s.” These are the folks that has a story for everything that they USED TO do. One time I was helping a customer and he was looking at a Gary Fisher X-Cal. While…
Recently Priscilla received ad bulletin on her Myspace account about some dude venting regarding people in the local races sand bagging. If you’re not sure what sand bagging means well here’s a definition that will relate to mountain biking. Basically its people that enter races as a “beginner” but really they should be in sport…
One of our readers, Cheong Leong sent me an email asking how to use a chain tool. So I figured that I’ll go ahead and demonstrate on the KMX ST Class. A chain tool looks like this. Your’s may look a bit different, but it uses the same principle. You’ll notice in the tool it…
The Woodstock 707 is equipped with the Sram X7 rear dérailleur and shifters. Tuning the dérailleur is a bit different from Shimano dérailleurs. One might notice that the X7’s don’t have adjusting barrels on the dérailleur it self. The adjusting barrel is actually located on the shifter pod. First step is to shift it so…
DirtRag Magazine posted an article on making your own 29er/26er. This project aims to squeeze a 29″ wheel in the space of a 26″. By replacing a suspension fork with a shorter rigid fork, you’ll be able to utilize the space that the telescopic shock required and replace it with the larger wheel. It’s vital…