Category: Downhill

Kim has to be our most prolific racer on the team. She has earned more awards in her racing career than any of us could ever imagine earning. So it brings me great pleasure to share her 2009 race season. The MtnBikeRiders.com Race Team is very proud of her and her accomplishments. Well here we…

I’ve been riding the Sette Venom for a few months now. It originally came to us as a frame for a build project. You can easily order the Sette Venom from Pricepoint.com. As of this writing, the frame is for sale at the price of $499.With the frame you’re getting a Rock Shox Vivid 5.1.…

We are almost done building the MtnBikeRiders.com Sette Vexx DH Bike. Here are a few pictures of the 98% completed bike: Thanks to Ner for providing the pictures of the Sette Vexx! So what is missing? Turns out that the BB width of the Sette Vexx is 83mm, the Shimano Saint Cranks I got are…

If you missed out on the fun at Fontana last weekend, here’s a glimpse of what we experienced. I do want to say thanks to our friend Gabe “Thunda” Preda for all his help during the races. He took care of videos and photos and he even brought food and beer! Now that’s a good…

Rather than boring you with too many details of our weekend, here’s the nitty gritty from my point of view. Camped at Fontana on Saturday night. Got way too cold, won’t do that again. Got about 4 practice runs, on run 2 flatted at the beginning. Walked 35 mins back to base camp. Race day,…

This weekend is our final race of 2009 with Southridge. Donny Jackson and his crew have done an incredible job in providing an awesome venue, atmosphere and professionalism that is way better than any other race organization I’ve ever seen. Races will be held on Saturday for XC and Super D. Then Sunday will be…

Here’s a prototype running a muck in the world of the Internet. This is something that’s been in the works at Intense for a while, a downhill 29er…crazy. This first proto is in the medium range 23.5 effective tt. G3 dropout & Head tube 14″ bb in middle, w 64.5 ha @ 0 CS 18.25″…

Let’s start this review of with some formalities. Truvativ did not pay me to write/publish this review. Now that we have that out of the way, let’s get some history. I’m 32 years old, male (a sexy one), I ride XC, SS, and race Downhill. Out of the 3 mountain bikes that I ride consistently,…

As I type this, I am getting ready to go get arthroscopic shoulder surgery. It looks like I fractured my shoulder on one of my practice DH runs @ Southridge. picture of not actual crash, but of many! I had one heck of a season, I never had so much fun racing like I did…

Last Saturday Dainese hosted the Freedom Riders Video Showing. With the help of the kind folks of SDG, Sette, Pricepoint.com, and ODI, we had tons of stuff to raffle. MtnBikeRiders.com also donated about a dozen shirts for the event. DB Media Group provided the audio visual support by setting up a projector and screen for…