The Thrill of the Chase
An email… innocent enough, sent me on a chase. The email: 2008 XTR Brakes, and a link. Tim Scissors knew I was building up a frame and needed parts so when he saw the XTR brakes he immediately emailed it to me. When I got the email I went directly…
Newbies-Moe and RL 5 years ago
As the subject of being a newbie came up this week. I dug through some archives of the days that Moe, myself and a handful of guys we ride with started a little riding club called TEAM ZOOM. We were weekend warriors that thought the Fullerton Loop was a…
Win a Sette Ace!
Pricepoint.com is definitely a site you should be checking out as often as possible. Not only do they have great deals on parts they also have giveaways all the time. This time pricepoint.com is giving away a Sette Ace! The Sette Ace is a slice &…
How 1×9 got me ready for SS
As many of you know, we recently added the Sette Razzo frame to our lineup of bikes here at mtnbikeriders.com WCH. The Sette Razzo was built up as a SS. I have to admit, I was, and still am, very tentative about riding a single speed. I probably got that…
Shimano Winter Series # 2 David “Sho-Nuff” Sanderson
RL Policar-The Shimano Winter Series are 6 races that occurs every other week until March. So that means things happen very quickly and we never really get that much time to train, eat, write, sleep and poop. Which brings me to this next race report…
Talking Shop
I work for a softball/baseball equipment company (don’t ask me for a discount). So we get tons of guys that come in and want to talk softball and how the latest bat is hot and how they hit it so far and yada yada yada. It’s basically talking…
How do I get arms like that?
Many of you may have noticed that Eric “The Animal” Hunner has some might big GUNS! So wanting to have guns that can make Priscilla swoon at the sight of them, I asked Eric what he does for his workouts. Basically he said, he is his…
Sette asks you to Compare
Not many people know this but along with selling bike frames, which we have extensively tested (Reken) or are testing (Razzo), Sette also sells fully built up bikes. Many times fully built bikes are a good deal because of the manufacturer’s buying…
Not for the faint of heart
Came across this link to the 15 Greatest Mountain Biking Crashes. Yikes. If you get queasy just thinking about crashes, do not watch. Grotesque bodily damage No. 10 at about 32 seconds. No. 4 at about 33 seconds. No. 1: I’ve seen before. It…
What’s with all the changes?
A friend and I were discussing the recent changes that he had seen on the site. Changes not only in the site layout (rotating header, black design and etc) but also the focus and direction we’ve taken in the last few months. You may have scene…