Our trip to Mammoth started early Saturday morning. The Policars and my family caravanned from my house in Corona all the way to Mammoth. We had to get to Mammoth early enough for Priscilla to catch her XC race. After a long week at work, the long drive was certainly relaxing. At least six hours…
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What to do if you are nursing a bum shoulder? Well, how about start assembling the new Sette Vexx DH frame that MtnBikeRiders.com received a little while ago! I grabbed my trusty IceToolz (The official tools of Team MtnBikeRiders.com) Essence Kit and started installing parts on the Vexx frame. The Vexx comes ready for a…
It’s been a while since I’ve actually raced a downhill event. I was pretty fortunate enough to have made it to this race venue. Joe and I brought our families with us on this trip. The overnight drive that started at 1am finally ended around 7:30am that morning. Priscilla had a XC race that she…
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The MtnBikeRiders.com Racing Team will be up in Mammoth racing in the Rock Shox Golden State Series Finals. Some of our team mates are already up there, and the rest of us will be having a super early drive. Our drive up will start way before the sun even thinks about coming up. We’ve got…
Editorial by David Sanderson Team racer extraordinaire Kim Finch qualified for Nationals this year, so a support squad formed and we were off to beautiful Colorado! I’ll let Kim re-tell the story from here… I finally qualified for the US Cycling Nationals, to be held at Sol Vista Bike Park in Granby, Colorado! I was…
One of our readers, “WiLdMaN” sent in some photos of his own Sette Venom. He basically parted out his DH bike and built up the Venom. Check out the dual crown fork! Not quite sure what the build specs are, but I’m hoping he would chime in and leave a comment with it.
Last week I posted a photo of the new KHS 650b 606. KHS Bicycles finally updated their site with the spec sheet: Frame 650B” Full Alloy, Hydroformed Tubing, Gussetted Headtube Fork X-Fusion Velvet, 650B Headset Cane Creek A-Headset 1-1/8″ Rims Weinmann XM280 Disc Specific, Doublewall, Black, 650B Hubs Alloy 6-Bolt Disc, QR, Cassette Tires Kenda…
The folks of Sette USA sent us the new Sette Vexx DH frame to build up and review. Here’s some pics of the frame right out of the box. I literally picked it up from UPS, drove down the street to look for a patch of grass and took some pics. You can still see…
Editorial by David Sanderson, As Team MtnBikeRiders prepares for the Golden State Series Finale at Mammoth Mountain this coming weekend, we found that Kim’s report from race #3 had gone missing. So I dug through the archives and found it. The following is Kim Finch’s race report from #3 of the Golden State series, better…