Pryme Gloves – First Impressions
Yesterday Dan B, Ciseaux, Jer Yang, and I got together to do some SingleSpeeding at Bonelli. Also, I put in my first ride will the new gloves Pryme sent to us. Here are some first imprssions. Pryme Trail Hands in Gray Clean and Simple Styling They are…
Bling’d out Race Report-Shimano Winter Series #3-2011
During this past weekend the Downhill Dept. of the MtnBikeRiders.com race team was in attendance of Race #3 of the Shimano Winter Series. If you had previously read, I had a jersey made just for this race. The last race I showed up in my brocade blue…
Platform Pedals or SPD?
The race team has a mix of riders who like to be clipped in with some sort of SPD style pedal as well as the guys who use platform pedals. Here’s Team Racer Corey Pond using SPD pedals. Team Racer, Joe Solancho using flat pedals. So the question…
Oh You Fancy Huh-Race Report, Shimano Winter Series 2011 #2
On Sunday the Downhill Dept. of the MtnBikeRiders.com Race Team participated in race #2 of the Shimano Winter Series in the beautiful city of Fontana, Ca. For some reason I felt fancy this weekend. Rather than sporting my 2011 jersey that looks pretty…
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…
What Makes You Fast?
I guess its different for everybody. Some guys train non-stop, some have crazy lite bikes, and some shave their legs. Well, I wish I had the time to train like crazy. Lite bike are super expensive. And I like having hair on my legs. So I looked to guys…
2011 Southridge Winter Series #1 -SuperD
My first race of season is behind me. Two words: crash and burn. Everything started going dowhnill (pun intended) since Friday before the race. I still had to swap cranksets on my SuperD Machine, the KHS AM200, and it was cold and dark outside. I took…
Tacklin’ Downhill with the Taka
Sunday was the start of the Shimano Winter Series, put on by the Southridge Racing Company here in SoCal. This series includes, XC, Super D, 4X and DH. This is my second year competing as a beginner downhill racer, but it was my first time racing with…
Weekend Ride and “NO†Race Report (OTB in practice)
This past Saturday my ride was at Turnbull Canyon in Whittier, CA. Since southern California has been pounded with rain and storm for the past several weeks, this would be the first dry weekend for riding… In addition majority of Orange County’s…
Super D Duper Presented by MtnBikeRiders.com
This past Saturday was the inaugural Super D Duper presented by MtnBikeRiders.com. I set up this event to be a low key/underground thing because I didn’t want to make it too big. So that meant it had to be an invitational. If you didn’t…