You may remember Lil’ Bryan from his adventures a while back. Well, I have some terrible news, Lil’ Bryan is missing! Ok everyone, stop what you’re doing, look around your desk, garage, work…let me know if you see Lil’ Bryan anywhere?! He was last seen at the Urban Commuter Expo in Pasadena Ca. He was…
Author: RL Policar
RL Policar is an avid mountain biker and the Editor In-Chief of MtnBikeRiders.com and BikeCommuters.com. Between the two sites, he's published well over 4,000 articles (and growing).
I finally had a chance to install the Kenda Small Block Eight on the Sette Reken Single Speed. The first thing you need to know is that this tire is WAY faster than my old set of tires, Bontrager Jones XR. Plus they are WAY faster than the Kenda Karmas that Priscilla has on her…
It brings us great pleasure to introduce our newest Staffer for MtnBikeRiders.com, Joe Solancho. Joe comes to us from a busy mountain bike racing season. He’s competed in and in many occasions placed in races like the Team Big Bear Challenge in San Dimas, Ca., Southridge USA, Fontana, Keyesville Classic, and the Sea Otter Classic.…
Ok this letter is directed to some of you people that are STILL taking your bikes to you the LBS. Sure there’s valid reasons why you need to take a bike to the LBS for some repairs or services such as “I like to get reamed when paying for a tune up.” People also take…
Remember that contest that I posted where I asked people to guess what part of my body this photo was from? Well after getting some entries…all with the wrong answer! Chris Arnold, a loyal reader won! I had promised in the contest that I would give the winner something from my garage. After looking around,…
In order to serve our readers better, we want to know what it is you are spending your money on towards mountain biking? The reason why we ask, we want to start a weekly “Deal Day” where we bring you information on who’s having a sale on what. But to fine tune “Deals Day” it…
A while back Moe and I were talking about the freewheel on his Single Speed 29er. He mentioned that he was getting some dirt and grit in there and wanted to know how to service it. So after contacting our buddy Vince Rodarte of KHS Bicycles, he wrote a very interesting article that schooled me…
RL: -9lbs, -4.46% Vince Rodarte: -12lbs, -4.96% Total Money pledged: $467 Vince got me this week. The stud is really trimming down fast! He gained some momentum while losing weight! This week is the time where Vince and I are convinced that its going to be critical to get our mojo going and start upping…
This Saturday’s group ride let us to one of our favorite trails, Aliso Woods. We were joined by some of the regulars as well as some not so regular folks. One of the things that made this ride interesting for Priscilla was the fact that she was riding our newest demo bike the KHS XCT…
Pricepoint.com has a killer deal on some BB5’s. These normally retail around $60-$70, right now they’re only $34.98! Priscilla and I both run Avid BB5’s on our bikes. In fact this is the same set that I’m using for my mechanical/Hydraulic feel experiment.