Review: Okole Stuff
At Sea Otter, we met up with our friend Steve Boehmke and while we chatted he gave me a small tub of a new chamois ointment called Okole Stuff, this is endorsed by World Famous Racer,Pua Sawicki and made by Team Mata LLC. How do you pronounce it? Okole…
Review: Sportlegs
MtnBikeRiders.com received several bottles of SportLegs. Basically I wanted to have our race team use them in a real race setting. We had the opportunity to test how these pills worked during the Shimano Winter Series as well as Counting Coup and…
WOOdman: BILL LTI FZQT Hub
We received the WOOdman BILL LTI FZQT Hub to test and I recently had it built onto a wheel by our very own Tony “Wizard” Finch (thanks Tony!). Specifications Material : CNC-machined 6061 T6 aluminum anodized in black Includes : V-Cup Q and…
Shuttlin’ Santiago Oaks
On Saturday Joe Sizzzle and I decided to shuttle Santiago Oaks. If you’ve ever been to Oaks, you know that there’s some sweet single track on top of the mountain. But in order to get there, you’ll need to climb some steep hills. Since…
Santa Cruz Has Realized their Shame…
… and will be offering a VPP 29er. No worries. We forgive yah. Now, some clarification is in order with regards to this line: It’ll weigh a whole lot less than some other bikes of similar configuration. Should I be holding out hope for a carbon…
Race Report By Eric “The Animal” Hunner: The Traverse 2009
RL Policar-The Animal shares his experience during the 2009 Traverse. Read his report and you’ll be amazed by his strength. I swear man, its like reading about Paul Bunyan or Hercules or something big and strong…I would like to add that The…
The 2009 Traverse
Early Saturday morning RL, Ner and I met at my house. We were going to cheer on our teammate Eric “The Animal†Hunner as he was racing in The Traverse. What’s the Traverse? Here’s a brief description:  Approximately 43 miles with 8K feet…
Sea Otter 2009: Turner Sultan Quick Ride Review
The 2009 Turner Sultan The longest but least technical ride of the weekend sadly belonged to the Turner Sultan. The “least technical” part was not by choice. Scissors and I started out thinking it would be great to get in a longer ride on…
Happy Birthday to Eric “The Animal
On behalf of the MtnBikeRiders.com Family, we’d like to wish THE ANIMAL, a Happy Birthday! The Animal prefers smoked turkey legs than cake…Happy B-Day buddy!
Race Report: Kim Finch US Kenda Cup Series- Santa Ynez
RL Policar-As always, Kim Finch never disappoints. Santa Yenz Classic is part of the US Kenda Cup Series, which is another fun XC race. We arrived Saturday morning for registration and had a chance to pre-ride the course. It was just around 9 mile…