Happy Birthday to our Team rider, writer and good friend Joe “J. Sizzzle” Solancho! Joe has been part of the Team for a little over a year, we met him on one of our “relaxed vibe” rides. He has been extremely supportive and a great motivation for having me become a Downhill racer. He is…
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Thanks to Randall, we’ve learned about an upcoming one-night event documenting this years famed Leadville 100! Here Here are the details (from the official web page http://www.ncm.com/Fathom/Sports/RaceAcrossTheSky.aspx Race Across The Sky – Leadville Trail 100 10/22/2009 EVENT OVERVIEW On October 22nd, experience a One Night Event in movie theatres nationwide featuring the debut of “Race…
See that Chainlove ad on the right hand side of the mtnbikeriders.com webpage? Well they’re legit, the real deal and a good place to get a screaming deal. How do I know? Well I scored myself a set of 661 Tomcat knee pads for $27 one day and this sweet Evolution Carbon helmet for $140!…
When I heard the final race in the Rock Shox Golden State series would be in Mammoth, I knew I just had to get there. Fortunately, so did the rest of the Mtnbikeriders team! Wednesday night I headed over to the Finch’s (Kim & Tony), loaded up the truck and took off at midnight. Plan…
What to do if you are nursing a bum shoulder? Well, how about start assembling the new Sette Vexx DH frame that MtnBikeRiders.com received a little while ago! I grabbed my trusty IceToolz (The official tools of Team MtnBikeRiders.com) Essence Kit and started installing parts on the Vexx frame. The Vexx comes ready for a…
I’ve been down in my luck lately, I have been nursing a bum shoulder since my last race so I haven’t ridden since the last race in July. Being in third place in the overall, I HAD to race, not to mention that we were racing at Mammoth! The lift going up! I had my…
Editorial by David Sanderson Team racer extraordinaire Kim Finch qualified for Nationals this year, so a support squad formed and we were off to beautiful Colorado! I’ll let Kim re-tell the story from here… I finally qualified for the US Cycling Nationals, to be held at Sol Vista Bike Park in Granby, Colorado! I was…
Editorial by David Sanderson, As Team MtnBikeRiders prepares for the Golden State Series Finale at Mammoth Mountain this coming weekend, we found that Kim’s report from race #3 had gone missing. So I dug through the archives and found it. The following is Kim Finch’s race report from #3 of the Golden State series, better…
Is your loose chain bugging you? Are you eccentric? Then read on… Loose chain blues…. The Cure [not the band, sorry RL]: 1st: You put the lime in the coke… and make sure your eccentric bottom bracket’s [EBB] set screws are loose. 2nd: Rotate the EBB to adjust the chain tension, a spanner wrench is…
Over the past few months we’ve been lucky enough to test the Soul Cycles Dillinger 29er hardtail. The Dillinger has been a fun ride and served as our test bed for the Powercordz cables, Geax Saguaro and Serfas Tegu reviews. Beautiful construction abounds on the Soul Cycles Dillinger Not only is the Dillinger gorgeous in…