Just this last week we had one of our own go down hard while at the RedBull Rampage, Paul Basagoitia. I’ve had the pleasure of meeting Paul when he became sponsored through Dainese and he is a genuine great guy. Though we don’t typically do any pro race coverage of any sort on MtnBikeRiders.com, I…
No matter what you do…and please take this seriously. DO NOT GET RID OF ALL YOUR BIKES! Let’s say you’ve lost some of your mojo to ride lately and you’ve decided to slim down the stable by selling some of your bikes. Sure do that, but for the love of GOD, do not sell ALL…
We all know that road and mountain biking offer some great cardiovascular benefits. In fact there are many people that even use cycling as a means of cross training. Take Thomas Graves for example, he is an Olympic hopeful training out of Two Wheels One Planet. He is training for the 2 man rowing boat…
ROAMING THE AISLE WAYS OF INTERBIKE When you are at Interbike there is so much to see you just can’t help but look at or try to look at everything. You will see some cool stuff and some stuff that makes you wonder what one was thinking when they came up with it in the…
So I’ve got this new project bike called the Shogun Prairie Breaker II. I’ve decided to name it “Sho-Nuff” in honor of the bad guy from The Last Dragon. If you’ve seen the movie we all know that Sho-Nuff gets beat up and all that jazz. But the name is so cool that I had…
Well the door are open and we came for the whole week, so I hope you will find what we saw as cool as we did. COOL MOUNT While walking In the Taiwan area I spotted a company called Juin Tech, they had this cool suspension mount for your phone, GPS, or POV cameras. I…
Ok am I the only one that is kinda getting tired of all the buzz words that the bicycle industry is trying to come out with when it comes new new bikes? Just recently a famous brand just released their “short travel-enduro bike” with only 80-100mm of travel. Um, last I checked that same brand…
GEEK TIME Allow me to geek out for a minute OK. “YES, YES, YES!!! Limited edition Star Wars helmets!!! Yeah!!!” Now that I got that out of my system, Bell helmets will be offering two Super 2R MIPS equipped helmets, plus the Segment and Segment Jr with Star Wars graphics on them for a limited…
Well as I descend upon Las Vegas and make my way to the 2015 Inter bike Dirtdemo, I saw fat tire bikes, cool bikes from the past, Mountain E-Bikes, and products galore. The weather was windy, sunny, and just enough rain to make it just right, so here are some pics of the 2015 DirtDemo.…
Like the title says, its that time of year again where we make the annual trek across the desert to attend this years bicycle dealer show. We’ll get to see all the new 2016 bikes, gear, and parts that one could only fathom. It will be long countless hours of walking, taking photos, talking to…