One week ago our MtnBikeRiders.com Team finished the SRC winter series and Triple Crown at Southridge. I signed up for the Single Speed 34 and under XC race. At the start of the race I was the only one in my class, so I was convinced that the Single Speeds would be grouped together. In…
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It has been different on the 29er, even more so while racing, so far it has been positive. Redline gave me a Demo 29er to test/race/ and abuse. RL set this connection up for me and warned Redline that I break a lot of bike parts. I am “The Animal”, this is a nickname that the MtnBikeRiders.com Team…
I stayed up late last night and got my spot in the Warrior’s Society Pow Wow, confirmed at 12:02am. The event sold out in under 30 minutes. Let the Hard Core training really begin, 56 miles, 11,000 feet of elevation, and one gear….
Over the past few months we’ve been lucky enough to test the Soul Cycles Dillinger 29er hardtail. The Dillinger has been a fun ride and served as our test bed for the Powercordz cables, Geax Saguaro and Serfas Tegu reviews. Beautiful construction abounds on the Soul Cycles Dillinger Not only is the Dillinger gorgeous in…
Here she is, a few tweaks here and there, soon she will be ready for racing. Some of the tweaks had to happen for me to be willing to enter this rig in a race. The V-brakes did not play nicely when jamming down some regular single tracks that I know like the back…
Rl and I hit the loop for a quick short ride to “feel” and do minor adjustments to the Soul Cycles Dillinger. After a few quick saddle and seatpost adjustments, we were ready to hit the trail. OK, so let’s start with the geometry, the bike felt “big” as in tall, but I was not…
One week ago I was riding up the Holy Jim Trail, here is last weeks ride report. My friend Eric Y.has been celebrating his birthday by jumping on his bike and riding from his house to the top of Saddleback Mountain and back home totaling about 65 miles. This year was his tenth…
Here it is my first Redline 29er experience. My riding of any 29er before this totaled less than 100 yards. A bike is a bike right, well not exactly. I have become a believer in the 29er setup read below. I grabbed the family and drove out to Hurkey Creek in the mountains…
After a long hard week at work and fighting through the Friday traffic, there’s nothing more satisfying than coming home to a package waiting at your front door, especially a big box. This Friday I came home to a package from… Soul Cycles. What’s in the box? The Dillinger 29er EBB (Eccentric Bottom Bracket) frame in Pearl Green,…
RL Policar-The Animal shares his experience during the 2009 Traverse. Read his report and you’ll be amazed by his strength. I swear man, its like reading about Paul Bunyan or Hercules or something big and strong…I would like to add that The Animal is a very humble guy. The whole team as well as strangers…