The 2009 Racing season has ended. Our little “experiment” of forming a racing team was quite surprising and quite successful. Our venture started with “sponsoring” three racers; Kim, Tony and Priscilla and ended with a team of 7 people of different backgrounds in different disciplines. Hard work, great camaraderie and awesome sponsors made this season…
Author: Moe Ramirez
Sunday rides are a great event for many mountain bikers, a day to get a few more miles in, drive to a trail not quite so close to home and meet up with some more people than the ‘usual’ crew. Usually Kim organizes the Sunday rides, Tony and I follow. When the Finchs’ are busy,…
Last weekend my girls and I headed to South Orange County to the Serfas Headquarters for the fall bicycle swapmeet. There were mountain bikes, road bikes, cruisers, tandems, ‘bents, you name it, it was there: We also caught up with some of the Team MtnBikeRiders.com sponsors: Vince Calvillo (the silver fox) working the KHS booth…
We are almost done building the MtnBikeRiders.com Sette Vexx DH Bike. Here are a few pictures of the 98% completed bike: Thanks to Ner for providing the pictures of the Sette Vexx! So what is missing? Turns out that the BB width of the Sette Vexx is 83mm, the Shimano Saint Cranks I got are…
Check out what the Sette Vexx may look like as a complete bike: Although we don’t have specs, it looks like they will be using SRAM, RockShox, Mavic, Kenda and Truvativ. Not too shabby, and check out the price $2,599 for a complete ready to race bike is not bad at all!!! We will be…
If you ride the world famous Fullerton Loop you probably have seen this van: And most likely you know his owner: This is Dave “Crash” Collins, if you don’t know who he is, here’s a little about him: I grew up in the 70’s racing motocross for my father’s Motorcycle shop in Anaheim California. In…
Serfas, team mtnbikeriders.com sponsor and makers of great optics, tires, bags and saddles are hosting the Orange County Bicycle Swapmeet on December 5th. I was able to get great deals last may when I attended this swapmeet. Get there early for the best deals though! NEWSFLASH:Evomo, makers of uber-cool clothing will be bringing the rukus…
I struggled for a couple days to write the review of the KHS Lucky 7. I kept transitioning from reviewing the bike to telling stories about the bike. Finally, I’ve decided that’s exactly what I’m going to do. What follows, is the story of my time aboard this bike. The trips, the rides and the…
It seems one of the new big things in Mountain Biking is recording the experience. Whether it’s to relive the rush, to learn and improve or vain self-gratification, it’s a lot of fun. Another great trick is to follow your friend down the mountain and suddenly they’ll be interested in seeing your video too! I’ve…
As I type this, I am getting ready to go get arthroscopic shoulder surgery. It looks like I fractured my shoulder on one of my practice DH runs @ Southridge. picture of not actual crash, but of many! I had one heck of a season, I never had so much fun racing like I did…