I’m not necessarily speaking in terms of selling bicycles out of your garage, but a place where you can wrench on your own bike and perhaps a few of your friend’s bikes. For those that have been to my tornado torn garage, they’ll know that I’ve got a pretty messy set up, but it works…
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not that I am promoting this or anything like it… A financial manager for wealthy clients will not face felony charges for a hit-and-run because it could jeopardize his job, prosecutors said Thursday. Martin Joel Erzinger, 52, faces two misdemeanor traffic charges stemming from a July 3 incident when he allegedly hit bicyclist Dr. Steven…
After an exhausting day on Saturday, I got to bed early on Saturday night with absolutely no thoughts of riding on Sunday morning. Before drifting off to sleep at 10:30 (9:30, if you account for turning the clock back for Daylight Savings time) I woke up abruptly at 6:30am. After lying around in bed for…
It was a wet and cold morning as we started our SART Birthday ride In the rain on Saturday morning, Tim, Dan, Weyland & I headed out to Angelus Oaks for Tim’s birthday Santa Ana River Trail (SART) ride. The day started off a little weird for me as my alarm clock decided to set…
I recently picked up this Diamondback Wildwood Tandem off an ad from Craigslist on Tuesday. Team Racer, Joe Solancho and I had discussed entering the Mt Sac Fat Tire Classic XC Race in the Tandem Category. Only problem was we didn’t have a tandem on hand to do the race. So when this Diamondback became…
Last Sunday, (10/17/2010) the Triple Crown Series began with a race at Bonelli Park, San Dimas. Though Team Racer, Mark “The Polish Hammer” Tomas has been racing for us since mid-summer, this was the first event that we actually got to see him hustle in person. The Hammer. During the race, Mark was in the…
I was talking to Team Racer, Mark Tomas this morning about something I had heard about him through another friend. Rumors had it that when T Mark lines up at the races, and the buzzer goes off, he instantly turns into something he’s normally not…. So I wanted to see if these rumors were true,…
If you are, and you have trouble making friends, meeting a girl or getting married, then you better listen up! If you ride quite a bit and are facially challenged, then start pimping out your other assets rather than your face. Here’s where I’m going with this. Typically mountain bikers have very strong lower body…
Recently I had to purchase 2 tubes for Priscilla’s bike (this was before Ghetto Tubeless Conversion). We went down to the local sporting goods store to get 2 presta tubes. When I saw the sticker price, I nearly crapped my pants! $5.99 EACH! What the, Who the, How the!!!! I couldn’t believe how expensive these…
The answer is a yes and no…As is, Dirty Dog Rotors are pretty fantastic. But with a bit of magic, you can make them just a TAD (pun intended, but you’ll get it later) bit better. Here’s what I did. I took Priscilla’s tad pole rotor (provided by Big DeBeer), as you can see its…