For the past few years, I’ve made it a point to do a ride on New Year’s Day. Honestly its really hard to get a group ride going after a night full of partying. But luckily this year’s ride had a good turn out. We were joined by our newest riding buddy, David Sanderson as…
Category: Ride Reports
As RL mentioned on the previous post, we had memorable times in 2008. This year has certainly been a blast for me. I can’t say it enough that it’s been great becoming part of MtnBikeRiders.com and off course riding my bikes throughout the year. Rather than rehashing some of what RL has already posted I’ve put…
We recently received the Epic Stealth Camera from GSM. We met the folks of GSM at Interbike in September and they had agreed to send us a unit for testing. Since RL and I had planned on doing some practice downhill runs, I decided to put it to use. EPIC measuring approximately 3″ and weighs less than 3…
From left to right: Marcio, Moe, Frank and Trisha I’ve been bugging some of my friends that I ride road with to go with me Mountain Biking. After a year of constant ‘reminders’ they decided to join me at the Fullerton Loop. Two of my friends had never had the chance to experience riding a…
Here’s a few choices for an affordable 29er gift for Christmas…it could be for the 29er lover in your life or for you! BikesDirect.com-They actually have a few affordable models that start as low as $399. The model shown below, the Fantom is priced at $595 Ibex Bikes Section 29-Clearance sale of $799 KHS Solo…
The Luge is finally back open after the fires from 2007. Whiting Ranch, which Joe rode in July the weekend of its Grand Opening, is across the street from the Luge and was also closed for months after the fire as well. I wasn’t able to get out for the initial reopening Luge ride, but…
This is actually the first time Sponsored Racer, Kim Finch had submitted a race report. Kim is well rounded racer that does XC, Super D and even Downhill. It’s really fun to watch her put some hurt on her competition. Read what she has to share about her race experience from the Triple Crown Series.…
The entire MtnBikeRiders.com crew raced at the Southridge 17th Annual Challenge this weekend. Priscilla, Kim, Joe, Ner, Eric and Val raced XC, Kim and I raced Super D, Tony, Joe and RL raced Downhill. I was actually excited about racing Super D for the first time, since I had an idea on how steep the…
The moon was still out. After the shuttle, we rode a short fireroad climb to the drop in for the singletrack While most of the mtnbikeriders.com crew was doing some pre-riding of the Fontana race course, a few of us decided to head out to the San Gabriel mountains for some wicked good riding. Even…
This morning, Priscilla, RL and I went to Fontana to pre-ride Southridge’s XC course. Team MountainBikeRiders.com will be competing next weekend in all 3 events. Priscilla, Kim, Joe, Val, Eric and Ner will be racing XC, Kim (doing double duty) and myself will racing Super D. RL and Tony Finch will be riding DH. This…