While wrenching on my bikes I realized I’d always have to run upstairs to grab a bottle opener. Since a good brew is essential to any wrenching session I decided to finally make myself a personalized bottle opener. I’d seen a couple of these how to articles with different methods, one of which was using…
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At least one night during the week Priscilla and I will hit the trails for a night ride. We usually have a few folks that ride with us, but this week it was just her and I. It was weird, but Specialized Bicycles was there to do a Demo Day. I thought it was odd…
This week’s Thursday Tech Tip show you how to do a kick out. You can use this to kill water bottles, realign your rear wheel if you’re going down a trail or just for fun. Check it out…
On Saturday’s ride at Aliso Woods, we always stop at the bottom of a certain hill at Coyote Run to see who can make it up. Usually I’m bragging about how I can handle it, but this weekend, Moe humbled me…
It wasn’t too long ago that I learned more about pumping. This is a pretty common practice with BMX guys. Basically when you’re going through rhythm section or roller/bump, you pump or push down on your handle bars and legs on the back side to help you gain some free speed to the next roller.…
This past weekend I was subjected to the sniveling, screaming din that is Chucky Cheese(also known as home to inept parents everywhere). Lucky, or unlucky, for me they served generic fizzy yellow beer on tap to deaden the pain that comes with 100+ undisciplined rugrats.Ā But this little eventĀ helped me realize that, for theĀ past three…
I’m sure Jay of Evomo has seen this one…
This past weekend, as you may have read in Moe’s pictorial ride report that we rode Aliso Woods. On our way down to a place called Dripping Cave, we stopped to rest and wait for the remainder of our group to catch up. As we were waiting this guy on a green single speed muscles…
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