This morning Jeremy and I went out for a quick 8 miler ride. As he started to climb a hill, the gear he was on slipped. But after inspecting his bike, we noticed that he completely broke off the cog from the cassette. Dang that sucks! Hopefully this is covered under warranty since his bike…
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It seems that the controversy between the riding advantages/disadvantages of a 29er goes beyond that. The email list contest featured a the question of which was the first company to attempt to make the first 29er bike. For my answer, I referred to Wikipedia’s article on the history of the 29er bike. Travis came out…
As I was leaving the LBS the other day, I was stopped by an older mountain biker who wanted to know how I liked my 29er. He had a 26er mountain bike that he rode for a few years, then converted it to a commuter bike. Now he was looking into a new mountain biking…
The answer to that is yes. Well it actually all depends on the shop itself. Take for example, if you go to a shop that is part of a large chain of stores like Performance, well you’re chances of getting a lower price than what’s listed is slim to none. But if you go to…
On Sunday morning Moe and I headed out for a quick morning ride to test out the Gary Fisher Cobia and the Ibex B-Series Build Up Bike Here’s the B-Bike entering the stream Action shots I just love those Sweetskinz Nightwing tires Yeah it climbs like a goat. No flexing what so ever. It can…
The winner of our first email list contest sponsored by Tifosi Optics is: Kevin Bergman from Matilda, PA. He answered the three questions correctly: 1. Which company was the first company to make an attempt to build a 29 inch mountain bike? Answer: Bianchi 2. What was the name of that bike? Answer: Project X…
The lucky lady that won the Tifosi Quam 1.5 is Mindy Hamilton of Brookings, Or. She provided the correct answer of Watkinsville, Ga. to our question: “Where is the “International Headquartersâ€�? of Tifosi Optics” Then we had another contest for a 6 pack of Bumble Bars with a question about the 3 P’s. The winner…
Woodstock Bikes just added some bells and whistles on their, already cool site. Basically if you click on any model name, you can zoom in to specific parts. Below is a screen shot of the cassette of the Woodstock 505.
Woke up this morning at 6:00 am in the morning. The thermometer outside read 29 degrees. Wait, this is Southern California, right? We were supposed to meet at the trail at 7:00am, the sun started to shine, I went back to read the thermometer: 31 degrees. Still, I’ve been anxious to ride the Gary Fisher…
Both bikes look pretty sharp, right? So if you look at them closely and examine the bike part by part, and saw that perhaps the only real difference between these bikes would be the fork and its price. What if I said that one of them is $500 cheaper…but remember, they are spec’d just about…