As RL mentioned in a previous post, mtnbikeriders.com took home a beautiful Dahon Fuego from the Sea Otter Classic 2007. The Dahon Fuego, an aluminum full suspension, is one of two mountain bikes that Dahon makes (the other being a steel hardtail called the Flo). The Fuego is a fire red full suspension bike designed…
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As we’ve mentioned, we strolled over to the Evomo booth and met up with our buddy Bryan Thombs. He showed us some of the new designs that he’s coming out with. This is the MTB Agent jacket. Classic Hurl T-shirt. New Braincase design. If you look closer, you’ll notice that every part of the skull…
We were walking by the Gary Fisher booth and I noticed a man that resembled the one and only Gary Fisher. So I asked if he was him and sure enough it was! I introduced myself and told him about MtnBikeRiders and BikeCommuters. He was really intrigued about BikeCommuters and talked about how people are…
It started raining around 10:30 this morning and it hasn’t let up as of yet. So right now we’re sitting in the Redbull Media Center eating lunch and uploading some photos as well as videos for all you folks to check out. Give us a few moments and we’ll have things ready. All of the…
We arrived this morning at Monterey, Ca. around 4:30am. We got something to eat and tried to rest in the truck but we’re too excited and filled with caffeine to even get a few winks. We stopped off at Denny’s to get some Grand Slam breakfast meals. Thanks to Moe for driving and for Jeremy…
Yeah I’ve done my laundry, and even started to pack my stuff. But from what everyone has been telling us, bikes is the way to get around Laguna Seca. So I’ll be bringing my Ibex/Xtracycle, Moe will be mounted on the Woodstock 707 and Jeremy on his trusty Gary Fisher X Cal. The bummer part…
I’ve been wanting to come up with an article chock full of trail etiquette reminders for our readers to benefit from. So far I’ve got a few good ones. But I wanted to add a few more. Feel free to leave a comment to add your own. 1. If you’re going to be late to…
Random thoughts coming up…. Working at an LBS I run in to quite a bit of people that are the “I Used To’s.” These are the folks that has a story for everything that they USED TO do. One time I was helping a customer and he was looking at a Gary Fisher X-Cal. While…
The Sea Otter Blog that MTBR is hosting has as great post about poison oak…. Monterey, California is one of the best places on earth. To balance out the good, a higher power created poison oak! On the XC course, poison oak is rampant on the singletrack. If you’re on singletrack, there’s poison oak. It’s…
RL and I were out riding the other day and he was mentioning how one of his bike’s derailleur hanger was bent. He was saying that it needed to be adjusted. I mentioned to him that I had read somewhere about how most SRAM stuff is great because if one part of the component is…