With three children under 5 years old it has become exponentially more difficult to get out of the house for rides. Over the three day Valentine’s Day/Chinese New Year’s three day weekend, I was able to get out for about 40 miles which is quite a bit for me. The weekend started when my office…
Tag: singletrack
Lightly tensioned chain causes major chain slap noise Are you experiencing chain slap on those downhill sections or sections of trail that you are not having to pedal? Doesn’t that sound get annoying to you after a while? If you are experiencing a lot of chain slap, try moving your chain into the big ring…
Suffering on the 45 minute climb… I could see Dan enjoying taking this picture of me… watching me suffer Went out with AV Dan on Saturday for a bit of a sufferfest at Chino Hills State Park. This one is a pretty common route I’ll ride if I’m short on time, but want to do…
The 2009 Turner Sultan The longest but least technical ride of the weekend sadly belonged to the Turner Sultan. The “least technical” part was not by choice. Scissors and I started out thinking it would be great to get in a longer ride on Saturday morning before the crowds showed up. After looking around we…
Specialized Epic 29, waiting to be ridden I got a chance to swing a leg over the new Specialized Epic 29er at Sea Otter. Nic of Specialized was great. He spent a good twenty minutes talking about the bike and getting it set up for me. What he did not mention, and what I felt…
Tim āScissorsā was able to get some ride time on the new S-Works Carbon 29er HT from Specialized. Here are his thoughts from the short loop we rode: So here I am on an all new Specialized S-Works Hard tail 29er made from the fiber of the gods, heading to the trail head with Gary…
Earlier this week, I headed out to Sycamore Canyon in Riverside, CA. Through the years Iāve heard so many great things about this place. With my trusty Garmin 305, I downloaded the route off www.geoladders.com.Ā BelowĀ is the link for those that are interested: http://www.geoladders.com/show_route.php?route=20548.Ā Singletrack in the back ground. Sycamore Cyn has a variety of…
The bikes: ready to rock the SART… or is it ready to be rocked by the SART? We soon find out. We jokingly considered buying lift tickets again for Sunday morningās ride, but riding some of the best singletrack in So. Cal. was too tempting. After cleaning up the cabin and packing our stuff, we…
All of us lucky enough to go out and ride Turnbull Canyon on Saturday got to see one of the most elusive, stealthy animals on the planetā¦ The Moe. The Moe is very similar to the mysterious cougar who prowls the bars of Orange County searching for the unsuspecting young buck. Wait, wait, waitā¦ Iām…
Just Kidding! We definitely didn’t have Moe and his moves, but we did have a local trail that demands to be explored. This place definitely has a few challenging & fun sections that we could spend a few hours riding over and over again. On top of this, after riding those challenging sections, we were…