I’ve managed to get a couple of rides in on the Goblin now, and can give some preliminary feedback on it. Here is Airborne’s take on what they intended the bike to be. The Goblin is built to compete head-to-head with a couple of bikes we really respect: Trek’s base X-Caliber, and the Specialized RockHopper…
For the past month or so, my daughter and I have been riding our tandem. You may have seen this machine used in a previous mountain bike race that Cousin Joe and I participated in back in the fall of 2010. It actually took quite a bit of convincing and bribery to get my daughter…
According to Team Racer, Art Aguilar’s recent Facebook posting, he describes MtnBikeRiders.com as… The mountain bike website for the average Joe, filled with fun, frolic, entertainment, and just plain saucy.-Art Aguilar So that got me thinking. How fun would it be to cheer on our team mates at the next race by saying…“Go Art! FROLIC!…
Come Participate in the First Ever XC Race in Orange Counties’ Irvine Regional and Santiago Oaks Parks – Saturday, July 16th Irvine, CA (CFEpr+) May 16, 2011 – – Okole Stuff, makers of the “Worlds’ Best Chamois Ointment” announce the inaugural OKOLE STUFF CUP mountain bike race for riders of all levels, to be held…
The Jet9 Returns! … and I got to ride it today. No pictures on the ride, but it was a good ride, nonetheless. I spent most of the time fiddling with the saddle height, the rear derailleur and I don’t have the rear pressure dialed in to my liking yet but I got to ride…
Here are a few of the cool, new and otherwise blingy things that caught my attention at Sea Otter this year. Purely custom had their take on a bashguard. The bashgaurd is covered in a with a rubber/silicone type edge. Not only it this piece support to protect your chain-ring from hits, but also as…
Get yourself one of these, its a cable luber (looooober). I found this sucker at a local motorcycle shop for $11. All you do is remove your housing from your derailleur, slide the cable so it’s not sticking out. Place the luber onto the end of the housing, tighten it down. Then insert the red…
Check out our poll that’s going on right now on the MtnBikeRiders.com Facebook Fan Page. We’re basically asking which do you like better. Depending on the interest, we may do a run of the more popular jersey. $25+$5 shipping. Not a bad deal for a full sublimated jersey.
While at Sea Otter I had the opportunity to demo a few bikes, and as it turns out all of them happened to be 29ers. So here’s just a few quick thoughts on the demo rides, but before I go into the bikes, just a brief explanation of the demo loop I was able to…
One of only two pictures of me and my Jet9 before it was stolen Last June my Niner Jet 9, fresh from being returned to me from recall, got stolen off the back of my car in Stockton, CA. I filed a police report and posted an ad on Stockton Craigslist and other than some…