Review: Okole Stuff
At Sea Otter, we met up with our friend Steve Boehmke and while we chatted he gave me a small tub of a new chamois ointment called Okole Stuff, this is endorsed by World Famous Racer,Pua Sawicki and made by Team Mata LLC. How do you pronounce it? Okole…
Review: Sportlegs
MtnBikeRiders.com received several bottles of SportLegs. Basically I wanted to have our race team use them in a real race setting. We had the opportunity to test how these pills worked during the Shimano Winter Series as well as Counting Coup and…
WOOdman: BILL LTI FZQT Hub
We received the WOOdman BILL LTI FZQT Hub to test and I recently had it built onto a wheel by our very own Tony “Wizard” Finch (thanks Tony!). Specifications Material : CNC-machined 6061 T6 aluminum anodized in black Includes : V-Cup Q and…
Private Party Transaction
Private party transactions are usually the best way to get the cheapest deal. Craigslist, mtbr or ebay are common places to complete these transactions. The tradeoff for the lower price is a brick and mortar, or even online, store standing behind their…
Soul Cycles Dillinger 29er
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. …
Shuttlin’ Santiago Oaks
On Saturday Joe Sizzzle and I decided to shuttle Santiago Oaks. If you’ve ever been to Oaks, you know that there’s some sweet single track on top of the mountain. But in order to get there, you’ll need to climb some steep hills. Since…
Santa Cruz Has Realized their Shame…
… and will be offering a VPP 29er. No worries. We forgive yah. Now, some clarification is in order with regards to this line: It’ll weigh a whole lot less than some other bikes of similar configuration. Should I be holding out hope for a carbon…
Race Report By Eric “The Animal” Hunner: The Traverse 2009
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…
Serfas Swapmeet, great turnout, great deals
I headed down to Serfas to check out their bicycle swapmeet. Even though I had every intention to get there early, I was not able to make it until 10:30. Still, there were a lot of people there and a lot of vendors: There were frames, complete bikes,…
The 2009 Traverse
Early Saturday morning RL, Ner and I met at my house. We were going to cheer on our teammate Eric “The Animal†Hunner as he was racing in The Traverse. What’s the Traverse? Here’s a brief description:  Approximately 43 miles with 8K feet…
