This weekend was a busy one at Fontana’s Southridge Park. Coming out of a long Winter Series, most of my teammates decided to pass on this race. With renewed confidence from the last race, I decided to enter the Downhill Beginner 34-42 category. Unable to practice on Friday, I showed up to the race bright…
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This weekend was the last race of the Winter Series at Fontana and it is almost sad that it is over. Saturday we pulled in our usual TEAM spot and found that Eric “Animal” Hunter had already made it warm and toasty with his portable fire pit! It was rather chilly Saturday morning and thought…
Saturday morning I headed out to Fontana for the 6th and final race of the Shimano Winter Series; very relieved to know this would be the last race of the series and a little concerned as I knew heading in that I wasn’t close to being in my best shape. I skipped the 5th race…
Not the sound I wanted to hear as I was grinding my way up a hill. The pedals immediately started spinning freely which meant I had snapped my chain. I stopped, looked down and saw that the chain had broken right at the power link area. I thought to myself: no problem, the power link…
I got an email from Tim Scissors bringing to my attention pricepoint.com’s two brand new carbon 26″ frames. I wanted to share them with you: The Sette Impulse: a 26″ carbon mountain bike frame for $499.98 From pricepoint.com: Impulse? Impulsive! Whip-crack fast, turn on a dime… and sprint? Sprint ALL the time! Featuring a beautiful…
My Saturday started with a practice DH run. I hiked up to the start since I like to stop and check out some of the sections of the DH course. As I was walking up the hill, I also noticed the Yellow signs with the blue arrows, these are the signs that marked the SuperD…
All week Weather Forecasters were predicting that Sunday would bring rain to Southern California. But as you know weather people are always wrong at least half of the time. I got up around 5 am to get the trailer ready to head out to Fontana to do some practice runs. Fellow team mate, David Sanderson…
RL Policar-The Animal has been a great asset to the team and continues to deliver great results in each race. Read his report below and enjoy his race experience for yourself. I had a great day to say the least. I arrived early in the morning at Southridge to get settled in, I got myself…
First Impression by David “Mini-Mal” Sanderson.  The world famous Moe has been tasked with the envious duty of performing in-depth reviews on the KHS DH200 downhill and Lucky 7 freeride bikes. Due to the technical difficulties associated with attempting to ride two bikes at once, I did Moe a favor and spent some time…
This month we are featuring the Aatma helmet from Kali Protectives. The Kali brand is based on the lore of Kali, the Hindu goddess of chaos and destruction. AATMA, means – The Soul.  Based out of San Jose, this company utilizes a patented technology called “Composite Fusion†in their protective gear. What is Composite Fusion?…