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Memoirs and Musings as interviewed by Monsieur Ciseaux Recently I had the privilege to spend a few minutes with one of MTNBikeRiders newest team racers, Mark Tomas otherwise known as “The Polish Hammer”. Before our interview I wasn’t to sure what to make of a guy known as “The Hammer”. Would he eventually get tired…

My race weekend started on Friday when I went to scope out the course right after work. I walked to the top and recognized some of the course that Tom had laid 3 weekends ago. Lower rock garden The course was totally different from any previous races,we had a couple of rock gardens and a…

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…

As you all know, members of the race team have kicked butt all winter long! We started racing in Fall of 08 and started the Shimano Winter Series on January 5th,2009. Since then we’ve basically had a race weekend every two weeks until the end on March 22nd, 2009. Our team consisted of our core…

RL Policar-Eric “The Animal” Hunner is the team’s power house. Not to take anything away from the other riders, but we all would agree that Eric has to be one of, if not, the strongest rider we have in our arsenal. So it brings me great pleasure to present to you a short, but sweet…

Under the threat of rain, most of TeamMtnBikeRiders.com gathered under a couple of ez-ups and got ready to race. Saturday was my turn to be Señor Team Manager since RL was out on a retreat, that meant I had to be the photographer and race support. As usual, the XC racers gave it 110% percent…

To say that I was anxious about this race is an understatement. This past month since the Bonelli race has been spent trying to get over soar throats and runny noses. I have been sick for four weeks now which has left me with very little riding time and training. Lucky for me I paid…

RL thought I should share my dream. I woke up this morning because of a knock at my bedroom door. And I had the worst sinking feeling. I don’t always remember my dreams but being that I was in the middle of it, it was very fresh in my mind. I had this dream that…

You know guys, Valentines Day is just around the corner. Some guys wait until the last minute to run out and buy those chocolates or flowers for their special lady. Why wait until the last minute? I’ve always told my husband the romance starts early in the day with the way you talk to me…