From the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: I thought the media were supposed to present a complete picture, not a biased one. In its Sept. 16 edition, the Tribune-Review, in a story titled “Pittsburgh becoming destination city for outdoors enthusiasts,” presents mountain biking as if it were a harmless activity. Mountain biking is one of the most destructive…
Not the ex-UFC light heavyweight champ, but rather the Red Bull Rampage… Ending its four year run in 2004, the Red Bull Rampage was the premier freeride event at the turn of the century. Many may have seen DVD movies and pictures as this was a widely covered event. Held near Virgin, Utah, many professional…
A few years ago I bought a Gary Fisher X-Caliber. That year’s Orange was the color I really wanted, but they ran out of that bike in my size. This was a bit of a bummer but the following year’s bike, a bland silver, was already on the showroom floor and my LBS was willing…
We arrived at Idyllwild late last night. Ah there’s nothing like driving a compact car through curvy mountainous roads. Friday night was a full moon and it sure was pretty too see the mountains glowing. I had to pull over and get a shot. Dumb camera sucks so the quality is bleh. From what I’ve…
Last week Jeremy, Khoa and Tim Scissors went up to Big Bear to do some riding. But this weekend its our turn. Priscilla and I are heading up to Idyllwild for a weekend getaway and part of our mini-vacation is to ride Hurkey Creek. They used to host the 24 Hours of Adrenaline there, but…
Exposure also allows for some sweet views! In the middle of the valley, you can see the fireroad we climbed. The day before, we were on the other side of the mountain riding the slopes Just a few lessons learned from this past weekend of riding, plus some more random pictures that didn’t make it…
The bikes: ready to rock the SART… or is it ready to be rocked by the SART? We soon find out. We jokingly considered buying lift tickets again for Sunday morning’s ride, but riding some of the best singletrack in So. Cal. was too tempting. After cleaning up the cabin and packing our stuff, we…
One of our newest riding buddies, Ryan K. recently got some new gear for his birthday. He received a nice set of pads, shoes and Crank Brothers Pedals. Ryan and I had emailed each other prior to our ride last week and I warned him that it takes some time getting used to the clipless…
The morning trails were not what we were expecting when we decided to come up and do the lift-assisted riding. At least it was not what 3 of us were expecting. The two who had driven up for the morning are definitely on a different level of riding then us and prefer different types of…
Cabin sweet Cabin This past weekend three of us went up to the local mountains for one day doing lift-assisted riding and the second day riding the Santa Ana River Trail (SART). We drove up on a Friday night and stayed at a cabin that had a front porch with full view of the lift…