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 (oh koh lay). Hawaiian word for…
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 Traverse. Cost: $26.95 for a bottle of 120 capsules. What’s in it? Here’s…
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 V-Cup T Holes : 32 or 36 What’s cool about this hub…
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 product. Over the past few years I have had my share of bad…
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,…
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 climbing is my least favorite part of mountain biking, Joe and…
… 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 VPP 29er? Santa Cruz already has a beautiful carbon…
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…
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, forks, vintage bikes, low riders, rims, clothing……
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 of elevation gain. For those that are familiar with the Santa…