Editorial-RL Policar: As always, Kim Finch had a stellar weekend at the races in Fontana, Ca. Read up on her adventures! Well here we are back in Fontana, CA for a whole new year! As I concluded last season, I have moved to the CAT2/Sport categories in all disciplines. I am going to mix up…
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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…
The 2009 Racing season has ended. Our little “experiment” of forming a racing team was quite surprising and quite successful. Our venture started with “sponsoring” three racers; Kim, Tony and Priscilla and ended with a team of 7 people of different backgrounds in different disciplines. Hard work, great camaraderie and awesome sponsors made this season…
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…
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…
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…
Sunday was your typical Southern California day, dry and warm. Temperatures were forecasted to reach over 82 degrees. In this event we had our Cat2/3 and Single Speed racers. Here’s the current roster: Kim Finch-Cat2 Priscilla Policar-Cat3 David Sanderson-Cat2 Tony Finch-Cat3 Eric Hunner-Single Speed (but racing with the Cat2 riders) Joe Solancho Cat3 Cat2 and…
It’s Halloween night and I am taking it easy. First I have a race tomorrow at Mount SAC in Walnut CA, and second I need to be able to function at 12:01 am November 1, 2009. The sign ups are just after Midnight tonight for “The Traverse 2010”, space is limited to 175 riders willing to…
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…
Earlier last week I talked a mean game about how the MtnBikeRiders.com Race Team had been working hard in preparation for this years XC Race at Bonelli Park. Some of our riders have been doing some cross over training by implementing the P90X work outs, others have been using bags of cement in their hydration…