Month: January 2007

We are extremely grateful to Nick James. He did an awesome job on creating the Mountain Bike Riders logo. Don’t forget to visit Nick’s site: Nick James Photo and getonyourbikesandride.com. Thanks again Nick.

That’s going to leave a mark. What’s cool is no matter how hard they fell, these guys jumped right back on their bikes. Now go out there and hit the trails!

I was reading the Business section of the LA Times (yes, I do read the other sections other than the funnies) and an ad caught my attention. A famous maker of exercise machines is selling a ‘Whole Body Vibration‘ Platform. The claim is that Whole Body Vibration helps improve circulation, strength, flexibility and balance by…

I’ve noticed that our servers are getting a number of good hits of people looking for “Sweetskinz Tires.” So I decided to enlighten you folks about Sweetskinz. First of all, these tires remind me of a very pretty girl. Yeah when you first see them your curiosity is awakened. But you’re not so sure on…

I didn’t even realize that they provided all sorts of How-To’s regarding bicycle maintenance. Some of the subjects they cover are: Mountain Bikes * Rear Derailleur * Front Derailleur * Disc Brakes Road Bikes * Rear Derailleur * Front Derailleur * Brakes And here’s the best part for us visual learners, it comes with pictures!!!!!…

The first GPS track is available for download. This is the XC course that was used on Southridge last year. If you own any Garmin GPS device, you can upload the track to your device and hit the trail. The Southridge XC race series is coming soon, if you have never been there and you…

A few weeks back my brother sent me a link on how to make a messenger bag. I checked it out and decided to try to make one. I used one of the patterns from the site but added a few things that I thought would work better. All materials were graciously donated from several…

Evomo Clothing has to be one of the coolest mountain biking clothing companies out there. Evomo is the most progressive lifestyle clothing brand to hit the mountain bike scene. They are a skate and surf inspired casual clothing line created by mountain bikers. So you know what this means to us mountain bikers? It means…

We’ve had some great entries for the contest so far. But I have to warn you. When you enter the contest, PLEASE give me a good answer. Not like, “my answer is 17” (that was courtesy of Jon Ruiz of Ontario…ssshhhhh don’t tell him I used his answer….). Seriously, the answer is super easy to…

I was pretty impressed to learn that Woodstock Bikes posts on their site comparisons between parts and prices against other manufacturers. So I looked at the 2007 Specialized FSRxc Comp and compared it to the Woodstock 707 and I was surprised to see the savings was well over $700.00. You can see for your self,…