Category: Ride Reports

This weekend MtnBikeRiders.com headed out to El Moro (aka Crystal Cove State Park).  Priscilla, RL and I were joined by our friends Dan and Gabe.   We started at the Ridge Park entrance and headed down Redtail Ridge to Rattlesnake.  The first part of our ride were primarily descents.  There were different levels of downhill…

Yesterday afternoon I headed to Santiago Oaks in Orange, CA for a mid-week ride where I met up with Val and Ner.  Val is in the process of dialing his new Yeti ASX DH bike.  Weather at this time of the year is fairly hot in So Cal.  It was well in the 90s mid-day but…

Raging Waters, hadn’t opened that morning yet This past Friday, I got a chance to ride with a few of the guys at Bonelli. Our group consisted of 3 26″ full suspension bikes and two 29ers in the form of a SS rigid and my Niner Jet 9. The three twenty-sixers decided to color coordinate…

Forgive the dark photos, I would have waited until tomorrow to take them, but I couldn’t wait to share the progress of the Sette Venom. Here’s the spec sheet so far: Sette Stumpy stem Azonic DH riser bar Ultegra 12-27t rear cassette Blackspire 38t DH chain ring MRP Chainguide Marzochhi Bomber 66 Light with ETA…

A few of us headed to Fontana last weekend to do some DH practice runs. We met Donny and Tom as we were walking our bikes to the top and the interim course was already laid out. Anyhow, it looks like some of us are a little rusty: Mike Stoner looking for worms Ian smelling…

Running out of time this morning, I couldn’t shoot this from the best angle. This was what I could come up Not a good sound to hear. I was riding the loop on a pre-work morning ride, riding it backwards because… you know that’s how I roll. haha. As I stood up to climb a…

I’ve been gathering some parts from my bin, purchasing stuff and getting stuff from companies to test for this build. I opted for the Crank Brothers Sage SL headset for its subtle green accent and it is also lighter and less expensive than a Chris King. Cushioning my butt is this sweet Serfas Tegu saddle.…

We gathered up the crew and invited some friends to try out downhill riding at the World Famous Southridge course in Fontana, Ca. We were joined by my former Downhill Race Rival/Buddy Johnny Dow as well as Tim Scissors, Mark West and Val M. This was Priscilla’s second time riding DH and she has remarkably…