You may have noticed that we haven’t been doing much on the site lately. Well there’s a few reasons. We’ll blame Art. Why? No reason really, just thought it would be fun to do so. But seriously, I’ve personally been busier than normal. I’ve been doing some freelance work that has me writing 200 articles…
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Yes you’ve read it correctly, we’re doing an open casting call for new writers on MtnBikeRiders.com. As you may have noticed our content has been stagnant lately. That’s partly due to the fact I’ve been learning how to do Karate stuff. Check out my class. Anyhow, let me digress to the subject at hand. So…
This Sunday we head back out to Santa Ana, Ca. to help out the less fortunate with their bicycles. If you have a work stand and know how to fix bicycles, then come and join us! Even if you don’t know how to fix bicycles, you can still join us as Operation Feed The Homeless…
WHAT’S IT MEAN TO BE BEST IN SHOW Well I thought hard about this, asked my editor and chief RL Policar, “should we do a best in show” and he said sure why not, this would require tons of hours combing Sea Otter for a best in show bike and what would be the criteria,…
MAKING WEBSITE MAGIC As you our readers go through the mecca of knowledge on our website countless times and see all the cool footage of test, cool stories,  events, and all things mountain biking, you must wonder, “how do they itâ€. I’m not only talking about the effort and lengths we go to when we…
So, RL and I were riding together the other day when the topic of what I carry on a ride came up. I explained to him that given my fireman/paramedic/search-and-rescue/general outdoorsman/pro bike mechanic/avid rider/all-around-bitchin guy background I carry more than your average mountain biker. It was with awe and amazement that he exclaimed, “The world…
If you mountain bike in an area that gets tons of snow, then you may want to listen up. A few years ago my own brother was stationed in Pennsylvania for the US Army. When winter came and the snow fell, he didn’t want to stop riding. So he deviced a bicycle traction system, or…
In a previous article, I mentioned that Coconut Oil is great for your skin. But I’m sure you’ve heard all the talk about the benefits of coconut water and you’ve probably seen all the packaged coconut water in your local grocery store. Though, packaged water is great for hydration, a small container of it can…
I consider myself pretty mechanically inclined. Whether it’s wrenching on my own bikes, cars or even assembling furniture we bought at Ikea, I can do it without any hesitation. However, in some of my mechanical endeavors, there’s a limit on what I’m willing to take on due to the fact that I can easily get…
For the most part I can work on pretty much every part of a bike. From shocks, forks, derailleurs and even disc brakes. But when the KHS XCT 556 needed a brake pad replacement, I tried to bleed the brakes myself and found that I had a short attention span because I must have missed…