Genuine Innovations Tubeless Ready Kit
So the package says you can convert tubeless ready rim to tubeless. The kit comes with Gorilla Tape, Slime Tubeless Sealant and a CO2 pump with 2, 20g cartridges as well as valve stems. From the way it looks, it’s a basically a Ghetto Tubeless kit…
Did the 26er jump the shark?
For all you youngins’ if you don’t know what Jump the Shark means. Well, let me edumacate you a bit. The definition: jump the shark phrase of jump 1. informal (of a television series or movie) reach a point at which far-fetched events are…
A tool that every home mechanic needs
This was one of those tools that I for years I avoided getting because for the most part, quick links on a chain is fairly easy to undo. For some odd reason and perhaps it’s just me, but 10 speed chains with quick links seem to be harder to undo.…
Happy Valentines Day. For get the flowers, get her Carbon!
If you’re lucky like me you’ve got a wife who is into riding. For the most part Lady P nerds out on bikes just as much as I do. But for about the last 6 months, she’s been wanting carbon bike. Why? Well she likes how they look. She…
KMC Chains Winter Series #3
Last weekend the boys were out racing some Super D at the KMC Chains Winter Series at Southridge. So we asked each racer to give us a brief report on their race experience. First up is Knight Rider-Kyle Knight: Super D was pretty cool this week. I…
Leandro Parada’s Super D Race Report
First race of the year which also means this was the first race at the KMC Chains Winter Series at Southridge, Fontana. What can I say, we had perfect temperatures for riding, a very dry course for winter, no rain, no mud, and many people out there…
Nashbar Bee’s Knees Review
While the rest of the country freezes their butt off, So Cal mountain bikers are enjoying quite a warm winter. Warm winter=more riding! To up the winter fun factor, I’ve been riding Nashbar’s Bee’s Knees 650b single speed fully rigid…
We’ve got another build project going on. This time it’s going to be hard…
Hard as in hard tail. Rigid to be exact! Check out the Soma Juice 29er. Soma provided the frame, seat collar, fork, headset and stem. Slider dropouts give me the option to go single speed at a later date. I may just take them up on that offer. The build…
Why Super D Racing might be better than Downhill
This past weekend I participated in my very first Super D race at Southridge at the KMC Chains Winter Series. I’ve been racing bikes on and off for a few years now, some XC and mostly downhill. When I did race downhill, I found that I really…
Hurt my back, no ride, got bored and built up a bike
Yep that’s how my Saturday turned out. So without boring you with some lame details, here’s some pictures. But first, let me tell you about my Bro-Date with Art Aguilar. He’s so dreamy! We had some tacos by the beach. Now that we have…