Poison Oak…nasty!
The Sea Otter Blog that MTBR is hosting has as great post about poison oak…. Monterey, California is one of the best places on earth. To balance out the good, a higher power created poison oak! On the XC course, poison oak is rampant on the…
SRAM Corp. Recall
My work’s safety office just posted this. I thought it might be of good use to some of you guys. SRAM Corp. Recalls Bicycle Brake Caliper Sets Due to Crash Hazard WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation…
SRAM Fan
RL and I were out riding the other day and he was mentioning how one of his bike’s derailleur hanger was bent. He was saying that it needed to be adjusted. I mentioned to him that I had read somewhere about how most SRAM stuff is great because if…
Mtnbikeriders.com T-Shirt
For the last couple of weeks both my wife Soraya and I have been wanting a Mtnbikeriders.com t-shirt. We wanted to show off our mtnbikeriders pride. Last Saturday we decided to make that happen. So we bought some iron-on transfers from Wally World and…
How To Use a Chain Tool
One of our readers, Cheong Leong sent me an email asking how to use a chain tool. So I figured that I’ll go ahead and demonstrate on the KMX ST Class. A chain tool looks like this. Your’s may look a bit different, but it uses the same…
Sette Sierra 2 Bike Hitch Mount Rack Update
We found a drawback with the Sette Sierra 2 Bike hitch mount rack, notice on the lower right hand side of the picture how the exhaust is pointing to the wheel of the bike. The exhaust of Jeremy’s Honda Pilot caused the wheel to overheat…
New Product Received: KMX Kart, ST Class
The folks of KMX Karts sent us another kart to perform a review on. This baby is known as the ST Class. Here’s the specs: ST-Class Kart* 7-speed Adult Sports Trike with all-terrain wheels & tires A Quality New Adult Sports Trike At An Amazing…
Turnbull Canyon & Helicopter?
My friend Ivan & I went to ride Turnbull Canyon this past Saturday in the city of Whittier. I again used geoladders to find this route. Even though it’s only a little over 8 miles, it was a great workout that took 1 hour 45 mins (resting time…
How To Tune a Sram X7 Rear Derailleur
The Woodstock 707 is equipped with the Sram X7 rear dérailleur and shifters. Tuning the dérailleur is a bit different from Shimano dérailleurs. One might notice that the X7’s don’t have adjusting barrels on the dérailleur it self.…
Evomo Press Release
Evomo will debut new 2007 designs and give away an iPod at the Sea Otter Classic in Monterey, California April 12 – 15. The new Evomo clothing designs include Braincase, MTB Agent and Flight which is multimedia composite of traditional screen…