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).

Price Point: $199.98 The Redline Monocog 29er Frame & Fork is constructed of 4130 chromoly and features horizontal dropouts, 135mm rear spacing, disc tabs, v-brake mounts, and suspension corrected geometry. The Redline Monocog 29er Frame & Fork is a great start for a killer 29er single speed build. Click here to read more about it.

For you Knicker Lovin’ people, later this month, Hoss is coming out with a new line of…knickers. Here’s what they have to say about the knickers… The Ponderosa Knickers will share the fit and many of the features of the Ponderosa Shorts (see www.hossmtb.com), but in a 3/4 length design. The Knickers will be available…

I don’t know if I’ve mentioned this, but Woodstock Bikes is allowing me to keep the 707 to let me do more things to it. A few days ago you saw me do a posting on how I installed a new fork, Marzocchi Bomber with ETA and a new front tire, Kenda Kinetic 2.6! I…

In the past few month we’ve made some great friends in the bike business. Some I’ve known for a few years. But KHS Bicycles has always stood by our side in making sure we know the latest trends and gadgets the industry is coming out with. There are a few key players at KHS that…

This evening I spent some time in the garage doing some work on the Woodstock 707. I’ve installed the Marzocchi Bomber fork that has 5 1/2 inches of travel and lockout. I also slapped on this mondo large front tire. What you’re seeing is a 2.6 Kenda Kinetic DH tire. I’ll let you all know…

So which is better, a moisture wicking shirtor a regular cotton t-shirt? In the past few months I’ve been playing around with different shirts. One ride I’ll wear some sort of lycra/spandex jersey and on another ride I’ll wear a regular cotton tee. Heck just last week I even wore my Hawaiian shirt with my…

You guys know how much I love my Ibex/Xtracycle, well Surly Bikes has been testing a prototype called the Big Dummy! I remember seeing this thing at last years Interbike. It’s actually pretty cool. They basically built an Xtracycle bike. First of all, no, the Big Dummy is not yet in production. We have all…

I have never taken my bike to have it worked on by a bike mechanic. Well except maybe that one time that I paid $20 to a shop when I was a 13 to “tune-up” my road bike. Well now here’s your chance to save money. Get one of these workstands and start working on…

This is what happens if you become one of our friends…we’ll promote you! These shirts were designed by my 29er buddy Dale Weber. You saw his picture on the Poker Ride posting with him next to his Niner bike. Check it out here and here Dale said he’ll be sending us a shirt to model…