Shimano Winter Series #5
This past weekend was the Final round of the Shimano Winter Series. Although I havn’t been participating in this series, I made it out for the final race. Its been a few months now since the last race I did. The weather was forcasted to be warm. I…
DIY XTR 960 Single Crankset
A while back I was talking to Tim “Ciseaux” about singlespeed cranksets. He told me about a custom builder who modifys the XTR 960 triple crank, into a clean looking single setup. After looking at some pictures, I thought this would be a cool…
Winter SSeries #4: Winning the War of Attrition
This weekend was host for the 4th installation of the Southridge Winter Series. Heavy rain had preceded the race both the day and night before, even more had been forecasted for this Saturday. Luckily enough, the morning of the race was relatively free…
I Hate Hike-a-bike racing
The second race of the Southridge Winter Series was this weekend. The weather was a significantly warmer than the previous race two weeks ago by almost 20 degrees. Not so much winter weather for the winter series. After the results from the last race…
SSouthridge Winter SSeries Opener
The first race of the year and the beginning of the Southridge Winter Series started this weekend in Fontana, CA. I was lucky enough to double-check the weather the night before which showed high temperatures for the day in the high 50’s. It was not…
SSteel is Real… Heavy
Well, I completed my SS build just after Thanksgiving and have managed to log a over a hundred miles on it already. The frame is a Niner SIR9 with a Fox 32 F29 fork and Industry Nine XC 29er wheels. Niner touts this frame as demonstrating that…
Team Topeak-Ergon, Troupe Racing Co., and Crank Brothers Ride Report 4-21-10
I was eating lunch and I get a text for RL; Hey dude are you going to do that ride? I respond “that ride???” [Ergon – Troupe racing CO – Crank Brother MTB Ride]. Completely unaware that a special ride was planned to start at Crank…
Obese Man Finishes 56 mile Vision Quest
Just kidding, well not really according to Body Mass Index calculators I am an obese man at 6′ 2″ and 245 pounds, with an index of 31.5. The fine print reads “While it is generally accurate, the BMI can read too high for athletes or…
Vision Quest Training Preride 3-14-2010
On Sunday I rode the first part of the Vision Quest an Endurance Cross Country Mountain Bike Race, { link for course} . The preride was a 25 mile loop up Blackstar canyon, to Main Divide, and down Motorway, {link for preride} I was almost knocked off…
Enervitene Energy for Endurance
Enervit sent us a sample of Enervitene Cheerpacks to try, RL sent it my way knowing that I have the “Vision Quest” 56 mile and 12,000 feet of climbing mountain bike event coming up. I have been training hard for the upcoming event on March…