One week ago our MtnBikeRiders.com Team finished the SRC winter series and Triple Crown at Southridge. I signed up for the Single Speed 34 and under XC race. At the start of the race I was the only one in my class, so I was convinced that the Single Speeds would be grouped together. In…
Author: Eric "The Animal" Hunner
It has been different on the 29er, even more so while racing, so far it has been positive. Redline gave me a Demo 29er to test/race/ and abuse. RL set this connection up for me and warned Redline that I break a lot of bike parts. I am “The Animal”, this is a nickname that the MtnBikeRiders.com Team…
It’s Halloween night and I am taking it easy. First I have a race tomorrow at Mount SAC in Walnut CA, and second I need to be able to function at 12:01 am November 1, 2009. The sign ups are just after Midnight tonight for “The Traverse 2010”, space is limited to 175 riders willing to…
How do you get ready for those long distance bike rides, I often hear my coworkers ask me? I say to them I just ride. Well actually I just push myself a little harder every time I ride. Lately I have been putting a little time in on the stair machine at my work’s…
I stayed up late last night and got my spot in the Warrior’s Society Pow Wow, confirmed at 12:02am. The event sold out in under 30 minutes. Let the Hard Core training really begin, 56 miles, 11,000 feet of elevation, and one gear….
Here she is, a few tweaks here and there, soon she will be ready for racing. Some of the tweaks had to happen for me to be willing to enter this rig in a race. The V-brakes did not play nicely when jamming down some regular single tracks that I know like the back…
Have you ever lost the adapter that lets you convert a Schrader style pump head to fill your Presta style tubes? I did, many years ago. I have not bought any adaptor since, I simply used what ever I had to just get some air in the tube. This is what I did. {Keep in…
Today I tried a new product, it is called Trislide. Trislide is a skin lubricant, at first I was thinking do I really need something like this? Well that question was answered during tonight’s ride. I just came off an extended vacation starting at the Colorado River and ending yesterday at Dog Beach In Surf City, much of…
One week ago I was riding up the Holy Jim Trail, here is last weeks ride report. My friend Eric Y.has been celebrating his birthday by jumping on his bike and riding from his house to the top of Saddleback Mountain and back home totaling about 65 miles. This year was his tenth…
Here it is my first Redline 29er experience. My riding of any 29er before this totaled less than 100 yards. A bike is a bike right, well not exactly. I have become a believer in the 29er setup read below. I grabbed the family and drove out to Hurkey Creek in the mountains…