Sunday Ride: 02-28-2010 Trabuco to Main Divide
This past Sunday, Tony and I joined the crew from The Path Bike Shop on their group ride. With all the recent rains in Southern California, I've learned a lot about picking trails that don't turn into mud fests. In particular, those trails of…
Suspension Tuning – Fox Factory Pro-Tune
Suspension tuning is as diverse as the disciplines of mountain biking. Some people constantly tune and tweak while others are afraid to touch the settings on these magical little items. Well, if you fall into the later camp Fox has developed a website…
Sunday Ride: 02-14-2010 Aliso Woods & Laguna Wilderness Park
This past Sunday, Kim, Tony, Steve, Josh and myself met up at Aliso and Woods Canyon Wilderness park to ride what I consider one of the best Orange County All-Mountain rides. We set out from the lower lot at 9am to pedal up Meadows to Top of the World…
Support Pua!
U.S. Mountain bike racer extraordinaire Pua Sawicki has a dream and is asking for the mountain bike communities help. Pua's goal is to qualify for and race in the Olympics. The problem is that Pua needs to race the World Cup series races in Europe in…
Ride: Sycamore Canyon 01-24-2010
Finally! A break in the rains that have been swapping SoCal over the past week! Since the trails only had one day of drying time, The Path Bike Shop wisely chose Sycamore Canyon for their Sunday group ride. Sycamore Canyon tends to drain water very…
Ride: San Juan Trail 01-03-2010
On Sunday Jan 3rd, Tony, Kim and I from the Mtnbikeriders team along with a bunch of friends headed out to shuttle the San Juan Trail because Tony is allergic to pedaling up-hill. Not really, Tony actually wants to ride up, but I always say I’d…
Ride: The Path Sunday Ride 01-17-2010
This past Sunday, Tony and I decided to take advantage of The Path Bike shop's Sunday ride. The ride location changes week to week so be sure to check The Path Blog for the current week's ride. It's a no-drop ride and has riders from pretty much every…
Stolen Bike Alert: Soul Cycles Dillinger 29er
Hey Southern California Mountain bikers, my Soul Cycles Dillinger 29er Singlespeed bike was stolen from the Whittier CA area. The bike was custom built and the frame is not very common. If anyone sees it posted on CL or ebay, please email me @…
Race Report – SRC Winter Series XC Race #1 Jan 9th 2010
The winter holidays came and went all too quickly for me, without enough of a break from the last race I did in November. I had dreams of an off-season three months long. The 1st race of the 2010 winter series was approaching quickly and I decided to…
Race Report – SRC Winter Series DH Race #1 Jan 10th 2010
On Jan 10th I headed out to Fontana for one last practice run and my first DH race in the sport category. After a few mishaps in my first couple races, I managed to finish out 2009 with some success in the beginner group and decided it was time to move…