Earlier this morning The Moe, Roy (Moe’s bro) and I headed to Tehachapi for the second segment of the Rock Shox Golden State series.  Approximately 2.5 hrs away from Corona we arrived at Woodward West shortly after noon. We saw our teammates Kim and Tony Finch along with many familiar So Cal faces. The DH course: …
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Product Tested: Sette Razzo Sette Razzo 29er frame in size Large (20″) Website’s MSRP: $199.98 Specs: Material Full 7005 Alloy, Double Butted Main Triangle Welding Tig Welding Recommended Suspension Fork Travel 80-100mm Headset 1-1/8″ Standard Front Derailleur 31.8mm Clamp Type, Top Pull/Top Swing Bottom Bracket 68mm, English Rear Hub Spacing 135mm Max Rear Tire Clearance…
We gathered up the crew and invited some friends to try out downhill riding at the World Famous Southridge course in Fontana, Ca. We were joined by my former Downhill Race Rival/Buddy Johnny Dow as well as Tim Scissors, Mark West and Val M. This was Priscilla’s second time riding DH and she has remarkably…
At Sea Otter, we met up with our friend Steve Boehmke and while we chatted he gave me a small tub of a new chamois ointment called Okole Stuff, this is endorsed by World Famous Racer,Pua Sawicki and made by Team Mata LLC. How do you pronounce it? Okole (oh koh lay). Hawaiian word for…
MtnBikeRiders.com received several bottles of SportLegs. Basically I wanted to have our race team use them in a real race setting. We had the opportunity to test how these pills worked during the Shimano Winter Series as well as Counting Coup and Traverse. Cost: $26.95 for a bottle of 120 capsules. What’s in it? Here’s…
We received the WOOdman BILL LTI FZQT Hub to test and I recently had it built onto a wheel by our very own Tony “Wizard” Finch (thanks Tony!). Specifications Material : CNC-machined 6061 T6 aluminum anodized in black Includes : V-Cup Q and V-Cup T Holes : 32 or 36 What’s cool about this hub…
On Saturday Joe Sizzzle and I decided to shuttle Santiago Oaks. If you’ve ever been to Oaks, you know that there’s some sweet single track on top of the mountain. But in order to get there, you’ll need to climb some steep hills. Since climbing is my least favorite part of mountain biking, Joe and…
… and will be offering a VPP 29er. No worries. We forgive yah. Now, some clarification is in order with regards to this line: It’ll weigh a whole lot less than some other bikes of similar configuration. Should I be holding out hope for a carbon VPP 29er? Santa Cruz already has a beautiful carbon…
RL Policar-The Animal shares his experience during the 2009 Traverse. Read his report and you’ll be amazed by his strength. I swear man, its like reading about Paul Bunyan or Hercules or something big and strong…I would like to add that The Animal is a very humble guy. The whole team as well as strangers…
Early Saturday morning RL, Ner and I met at my house. We were going to cheer on our teammate Eric “The Animal†Hunner as he was racing in The Traverse. What’s the Traverse? Here’s a brief description:  Approximately 43 miles with 8K feet of elevation gain.  For those that are familiar with the Santa…